154 result(s) for petition
1000 Foreigners Use Same Address To Vote In Hungarian Elections
- 9 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Roughly a thousand foreigners have given the address of a 40-bed motel in Budapest’s 19th district as their permanent place of residence in the run-up to Sunday’s municipal elections, according to left-wing daily Népszabadság. The majority are Romanian citizens but a number of Slovaks have also registered the Viktória Pension as their permanent place of Hungarian residence.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Pros And Cons Of Hungary's Nuclear Agreement With Russia
- 4 Jul 2014 1:00 AM
- business
Parliament is soon to adopt a law approving the Hungarian-Russian credit agreement on which the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant is based. At present prices the tab runs to 10 percent of the Hungarian GDP.
Civil Liberties Union In Hungary Calls For Drug Rooms
- 30 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Instead of stopping a needle exchange scheme, Hungary needs drug rooms where intravenous drugs can be consumed under sterile conditions, a drug policy expert of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said on Thursday.
Fidesz Launches Online Petition In Support Of Hungarian Interests
- 9 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ruling Fidesz has launched an online petition with the aim of defending in Brussels the policies of protecting Hungarian farmland from speculators, making pálinka distillation tax free and protecting false acacia. Rural development minister Sándor Fazekas and director for Fidesz social relations Zsolt Nyitrai told a news conference on Thursday that the new government was prepared to fight the ...
Hungary’s Top Court Rules Out Popular Ballot On Paks Expansion
- 8 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, on Wednesday upheld a decision by the National Election Committee (NVB) ruling out a referendum on the expansion of the Paks nuclear power station.
Former MALÉV Workers Protest In Budapest For Their Missing Salary
- 31 Mar 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ex-workers and supporters gathered for a protest on the 68th anniversary of the foundation of former Hungarian airliner MALÉV this Saturday. The protest aimed to draw attention to the fact that though the liquidation process has been going on for approximately two years, many of the former workers have not received their money yet.
Hungary's Ruling Party Fidesz Uses Rate Cuts To Start Recruitment Drive
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz is sending a letter to the 2.2 million people who signed its petition in favour of lower utility prices last year, asking them to take part in the party’s election campaign. In the letter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls on the addressee to join a “Hungarian Team” soon to be created to protect the government-imposed cuts in household gas and electricity prices, saying these are under ...
Socialist In signature Drive Against Museum Quarter In Budapest
- 18 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The Socialist party has started collecting signatures for a petition against building a museum quarter in Budapest’s Városliget (city park). The ruling Fidesz majority in parliament decided on Tuesday to nationalise the park with a view to building “monumental buildings”, Csaba Horváth, the Socialist mayoral candidate, told MTI.
1000 Foreigners Use Same Address To Vote In Hungarian Elections
- 9 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Roughly a thousand foreigners have given the address of a 40-bed motel in Budapest’s 19th district as their permanent place of residence in the run-up to Sunday’s municipal elections, according to left-wing daily Népszabadság. The majority are Romanian citizens but a number of Slovaks have also registered the Viktória Pension as their permanent place of Hungarian residence.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Pros And Cons Of Hungary's Nuclear Agreement With Russia
- 4 Jul 2014 1:00 AM
- business
Parliament is soon to adopt a law approving the Hungarian-Russian credit agreement on which the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant is based. At present prices the tab runs to 10 percent of the Hungarian GDP.
Civil Liberties Union In Hungary Calls For Drug Rooms
- 30 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Instead of stopping a needle exchange scheme, Hungary needs drug rooms where intravenous drugs can be consumed under sterile conditions, a drug policy expert of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said on Thursday.
Fidesz Launches Online Petition In Support Of Hungarian Interests
- 9 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ruling Fidesz has launched an online petition with the aim of defending in Brussels the policies of protecting Hungarian farmland from speculators, making pálinka distillation tax free and protecting false acacia. Rural development minister Sándor Fazekas and director for Fidesz social relations Zsolt Nyitrai told a news conference on Thursday that the new government was prepared to fight the ...
Hungary’s Top Court Rules Out Popular Ballot On Paks Expansion
- 8 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, on Wednesday upheld a decision by the National Election Committee (NVB) ruling out a referendum on the expansion of the Paks nuclear power station.
Former MALÉV Workers Protest In Budapest For Their Missing Salary
- 31 Mar 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ex-workers and supporters gathered for a protest on the 68th anniversary of the foundation of former Hungarian airliner MALÉV this Saturday. The protest aimed to draw attention to the fact that though the liquidation process has been going on for approximately two years, many of the former workers have not received their money yet.
Hungary's Ruling Party Fidesz Uses Rate Cuts To Start Recruitment Drive
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz is sending a letter to the 2.2 million people who signed its petition in favour of lower utility prices last year, asking them to take part in the party’s election campaign. In the letter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls on the addressee to join a “Hungarian Team” soon to be created to protect the government-imposed cuts in household gas and electricity prices, saying these are under ...
Socialist In signature Drive Against Museum Quarter In Budapest
- 18 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The Socialist party has started collecting signatures for a petition against building a museum quarter in Budapest’s Városliget (city park). The ruling Fidesz majority in parliament decided on Tuesday to nationalise the park with a view to building “monumental buildings”, Csaba Horváth, the Socialist mayoral candidate, told MTI.