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Local Opinion: Momentum Launches Action Group
- 23 Aug 2017 8:58 AM
- current affairs
A left-wing analyst suggests that the Momentum party’s grassroots action plan emulates the Fidesz civic circles of the early 2000s and will prove counterproductive. The leading pro-government daily suspects that Momentum’s scheme is financed by George Soros.
Fidesz: Soros Behind Request For Special Session Of Parliament
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
George Soros was behind the opposition’s call for Monday’s special session of parliament on the topic of the Central European University, Fidesz group leader Lajos Kósa said, referring to the US financier. Lawmakers of the ruling alliance boycotted the session, which thereby lacked a quorum.
Opposition Parties Fighting Each Other Instead Of Cooperating, Says Dialogue Co-Leader
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While the clock is ticking, opposition parties are scrapping with each other rather than engaging in cooperation, the co-leader of the Dialogue for Hungary party said at an opposition demonstration on Sunday, the national holiday celebrating King St. Stephen and Hungarian statehood.
Opposition Parties Reaffirm Demand For FX Borrower Remedies
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
After a special session of parliament convened by the opposition to debate the situation of tens of thousands of Hungarians who still hold loans borrowed in foreign currency failed to go ahead because Fidesz and its Christian Democrats ally stayed away, opposition parties condemned the ruling alliance for refusing to help the troubled loan-holders.
Parties Mark St. Stephen’s National Holiday
- 22 Aug 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliamentary group leader of the ruling Fidesz party, Lajos Kósa, marking Hungary’s national holiday on Sunday, said St. Stephen’s legacy obliges Hungarians to follow the path marked out over a thousand years of its statehood.
Local Opinion: Jobbik Leader Ready To Apologize To Jews & Roma
- 17 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Both a pro-government commentator and a liberal analyst doubt if Jobbik leader Gábor Vona can convincingly distance himself and his party from Jobbik’s earlier extremist statements concerning Jews and Roma.
Jobbik To Start Collecting Signatures For Wage Union Bid On Aug 20
- 17 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- current affairs
The leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party, Gábor Vona, has called for non-partisan support for the party’s initiative, launching on Aug. 20, to collect signatures for a “wage union” within the EU. Speaking at a press conference in Eger, in north Hungary, Vona called it “outrageous” that the party’s political opponents “are politicising the issue of a wage union”.
Sziget Festival: At The Beginning Of A New 25 Years
- 16 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- entertainment
Sziget Festival, the Island of Freedom, has ended with the total number of 452.000 Szitizens attending the 7-day non-stop music & arts festival. The 25th Sziget had two sold-out days with an amazing crowd arriving from more than 100 countries.
A Hungarian Micro-Party Calls For Boycott On Jobbik
- 16 Aug 2017 8:28 AM
- current affairs
The Liberal Party has called on Hungary’s “democratic” opposition not to cooperate with opposition Jobbik Party, which the Liberals see as “gravely anti-democratic and racist”. Liberal executive Ádám Sermer told a press conference on Tuesday that Jobbik would not want to lose its far-right voters, and has helped establish the Power and Determination movement, a radical force close to Jobbik, to ...
Local Opinion: Momentum Launches Action Group
- 23 Aug 2017 8:58 AM
- current affairs
A left-wing analyst suggests that the Momentum party’s grassroots action plan emulates the Fidesz civic circles of the early 2000s and will prove counterproductive. The leading pro-government daily suspects that Momentum’s scheme is financed by George Soros.
Fidesz: Soros Behind Request For Special Session Of Parliament
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
George Soros was behind the opposition’s call for Monday’s special session of parliament on the topic of the Central European University, Fidesz group leader Lajos Kósa said, referring to the US financier. Lawmakers of the ruling alliance boycotted the session, which thereby lacked a quorum.
Opposition Parties Fighting Each Other Instead Of Cooperating, Says Dialogue Co-Leader
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While the clock is ticking, opposition parties are scrapping with each other rather than engaging in cooperation, the co-leader of the Dialogue for Hungary party said at an opposition demonstration on Sunday, the national holiday celebrating King St. Stephen and Hungarian statehood.
Opposition Parties Reaffirm Demand For FX Borrower Remedies
- 22 Aug 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
After a special session of parliament convened by the opposition to debate the situation of tens of thousands of Hungarians who still hold loans borrowed in foreign currency failed to go ahead because Fidesz and its Christian Democrats ally stayed away, opposition parties condemned the ruling alliance for refusing to help the troubled loan-holders.
Parties Mark St. Stephen’s National Holiday
- 22 Aug 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliamentary group leader of the ruling Fidesz party, Lajos Kósa, marking Hungary’s national holiday on Sunday, said St. Stephen’s legacy obliges Hungarians to follow the path marked out over a thousand years of its statehood.
Local Opinion: Jobbik Leader Ready To Apologize To Jews & Roma
- 17 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Both a pro-government commentator and a liberal analyst doubt if Jobbik leader Gábor Vona can convincingly distance himself and his party from Jobbik’s earlier extremist statements concerning Jews and Roma.
Jobbik To Start Collecting Signatures For Wage Union Bid On Aug 20
- 17 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- current affairs
The leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party, Gábor Vona, has called for non-partisan support for the party’s initiative, launching on Aug. 20, to collect signatures for a “wage union” within the EU. Speaking at a press conference in Eger, in north Hungary, Vona called it “outrageous” that the party’s political opponents “are politicising the issue of a wage union”.
Sziget Festival: At The Beginning Of A New 25 Years
- 16 Aug 2017 12:00 PM
- entertainment
Sziget Festival, the Island of Freedom, has ended with the total number of 452.000 Szitizens attending the 7-day non-stop music & arts festival. The 25th Sziget had two sold-out days with an amazing crowd arriving from more than 100 countries.
A Hungarian Micro-Party Calls For Boycott On Jobbik
- 16 Aug 2017 8:28 AM
- current affairs
The Liberal Party has called on Hungary’s “democratic” opposition not to cooperate with opposition Jobbik Party, which the Liberals see as “gravely anti-democratic and racist”. Liberal executive Ádám Sermer told a press conference on Tuesday that Jobbik would not want to lose its far-right voters, and has helped establish the Power and Determination movement, a radical force close to Jobbik, to ...