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Quaestor Brokerage Scandal Victims Protest At Parliament
- 3 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Around one hundred people, including several opposition politicians, demanded compensation for victims of the Quaestor brokerage scandal near parliament. Deputy leader of the opposition Együtt party Levente Pápa said lawmakers will decide on Tuesday whether to guarantee cash compensation by the state in the law compensating investors of failed brokerage Quaestor, giving Hungarians who lost their ...
Video: US Ambassador To Hungary's “We Will Build a Stronger Bridge” Speech
- 31 Oct 2015 8:01 AM
- current affairs
US Ambassador Colleen Bell recently made numerous positive public remarks about Hungary, and also spoke of her country’s concerns - about corruption, a decline of freedom of the press, and xenophobic characterisations of refugees – during her speech on Wednesday 28 October at the Corvinus University in Budapest.
She said Hungary was not a place where journalists were jailed or tortured, ...
She said Hungary was not a place where journalists were jailed or tortured, ...
Hungarian Left-Wing Politicians' Reactions To Gyurcsány's New Pamphlet
- 31 Oct 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
For now, the Socialists (MSZP) and the center left Együtt party (Together) do not wish to officially comment on Ferenc Gyurcsány's pamphlet in which the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition talked about the necessity of a common platform and leadership for the Left in order to be able to defeat the Fidesz-led government. Multiple politicians of the democratic opposition claimed in the background ...
Xpat Opinion: Migrant Flow To Hungary Halted
- 26 Oct 2015 10:30 AM
- current affairs
As the flow of illegal migrants arriving in Hungary has almost stopped since the ‘green border’ was sealed last weekend (25 were registered on Tuesday), newspapers continue their ‘dialogue of the deaf’- some dwelling on the human side of the crisis, while others concentrating on the limits of European endurance and tolerance.
Hungary's Former PM Gyurcsány’s Roadmap To Change Orbán's Government
- 26 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the former prime minister of Hungary and chairman of the Democratic Coalition (DK), released a 20-page political pamphlet titled "Many for Hungary" (Sokak Magyarországért). "Many people hope that Orbán and his system would collapse under the weight of its own corruption, or be swept away by an international financial or political crisis.
Will The Real Owner Of Hungary’s TV2 Please Stand Up?
- 17 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- business
The story of the reported sale of Hungary’s second-largest commercial television station to Hollywood producer and Hungarian casino owner/operator Andy Vajna has just taken a turn for the bizarre. Or rather two turns.
European Journalists Association Holds Budapest Assembly
- 9 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
The political union that European Union’s founding fathers dreamed of creating is still incomplete, Maria Romana de Gasperi, daughter of the late Alcide de Gasperi, said in her keynote address to the 53rd general assembly of European Journalists Association (EJA) in Budapest. De Gasperi urged the media to help European politics regain its lost wisdom.
Xpat Opinion: Politicians Not Named In Prostitute Ring Investigation In Hungary
- 8 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A liberal website has got hold of the documents of an ongoing police investigation against a man suspected of directing a ring of prostitutes and offering their services to businessmen and politicians. The politicians involved have not been identified.
News Channel Took Orders From Hungarian Gov’t
- 8 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Government communication officials told HírTV on a weekly basis which politicians could be interviewed and what the topics should be before the channel’s owner Lajos Simicska broke with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in February, according to deputy director Péter Tarr. In an interview with media website Kreatív, Tarr said there was an unwritten rule that Jobbik was banned from HírTV and that few ...
Quaestor Brokerage Scandal Victims Protest At Parliament
- 3 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Around one hundred people, including several opposition politicians, demanded compensation for victims of the Quaestor brokerage scandal near parliament. Deputy leader of the opposition Együtt party Levente Pápa said lawmakers will decide on Tuesday whether to guarantee cash compensation by the state in the law compensating investors of failed brokerage Quaestor, giving Hungarians who lost their ...
Video: US Ambassador To Hungary's “We Will Build a Stronger Bridge” Speech
- 31 Oct 2015 8:01 AM
- current affairs
US Ambassador Colleen Bell recently made numerous positive public remarks about Hungary, and also spoke of her country’s concerns - about corruption, a decline of freedom of the press, and xenophobic characterisations of refugees – during her speech on Wednesday 28 October at the Corvinus University in Budapest.
She said Hungary was not a place where journalists were jailed or tortured, ...
She said Hungary was not a place where journalists were jailed or tortured, ...
Hungarian Left-Wing Politicians' Reactions To Gyurcsány's New Pamphlet
- 31 Oct 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
For now, the Socialists (MSZP) and the center left Együtt party (Together) do not wish to officially comment on Ferenc Gyurcsány's pamphlet in which the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition talked about the necessity of a common platform and leadership for the Left in order to be able to defeat the Fidesz-led government. Multiple politicians of the democratic opposition claimed in the background ...
Xpat Opinion: Migrant Flow To Hungary Halted
- 26 Oct 2015 10:30 AM
- current affairs
As the flow of illegal migrants arriving in Hungary has almost stopped since the ‘green border’ was sealed last weekend (25 were registered on Tuesday), newspapers continue their ‘dialogue of the deaf’- some dwelling on the human side of the crisis, while others concentrating on the limits of European endurance and tolerance.
Hungary's Former PM Gyurcsány’s Roadmap To Change Orbán's Government
- 26 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the former prime minister of Hungary and chairman of the Democratic Coalition (DK), released a 20-page political pamphlet titled "Many for Hungary" (Sokak Magyarországért). "Many people hope that Orbán and his system would collapse under the weight of its own corruption, or be swept away by an international financial or political crisis.
Will The Real Owner Of Hungary’s TV2 Please Stand Up?
- 17 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- business
The story of the reported sale of Hungary’s second-largest commercial television station to Hollywood producer and Hungarian casino owner/operator Andy Vajna has just taken a turn for the bizarre. Or rather two turns.
European Journalists Association Holds Budapest Assembly
- 9 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
The political union that European Union’s founding fathers dreamed of creating is still incomplete, Maria Romana de Gasperi, daughter of the late Alcide de Gasperi, said in her keynote address to the 53rd general assembly of European Journalists Association (EJA) in Budapest. De Gasperi urged the media to help European politics regain its lost wisdom.
Xpat Opinion: Politicians Not Named In Prostitute Ring Investigation In Hungary
- 8 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A liberal website has got hold of the documents of an ongoing police investigation against a man suspected of directing a ring of prostitutes and offering their services to businessmen and politicians. The politicians involved have not been identified.
News Channel Took Orders From Hungarian Gov’t
- 8 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Government communication officials told HírTV on a weekly basis which politicians could be interviewed and what the topics should be before the channel’s owner Lajos Simicska broke with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in February, according to deputy director Péter Tarr. In an interview with media website Kreatív, Tarr said there was an unwritten rule that Jobbik was banned from HírTV and that few ...