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Xpat Opinion: Sunday Closing Law A Bad Idea
- 30 Mar 2015 9:00 AM
- shopping
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: The Sunday closing law that came into effect March 15 is a bad idea. It only serves special interests, and it should be killed – by legislation or a referendum. The chorus of opposition to the Sunday closing law has mostly hit the same basic note: Forcing larger retailers to close on Sundays is bad for business and the economy.
Budapest Assembly Restores Temporary Homeless Allowance
- 24 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Budapest assembly unanimously approved an opposition proposal to restore a temporary homeless allowance in a vote on Monday. The related amendment submitted by opposition LMP deputy Antal Csárdi restores the ten-month 11,400 forint (EUR 38) monthly allowance scrapped at the beginning of March.
European Greens Hold Hearing On Hungary Paks Project
- 20 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Rebecca Harms, co-leader of the Green group in the European Parliament, and Hungarian MEP Benedek Jávor held a hearing dedicated to the planned upgrade of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant. At the hearing, Harms noted that the Greens have fundamental objection to nuclear technology, but also added that circumstances around Hungary’s decision to add two new blocks to the plant using a Russian ...
EU Film Festival In Chicago Brings Europe To American Movie Lovers
- 20 Mar 2015 7:59 AM
- entertainment
“Hungary is country full of contradictions, a very colorful place that's a happy and depressive place at the same time. I think Budapest is an exeptionally beautiful capital and it's important to me that people abroad feel the same way about it.” Says Gabor Reisz, the director of the Hungarian comedy “For Some Inexplicable Reason” (Van Valami Furcsa es Megmagyarazhatatlan).
Option Of Tax Office Preparing Tax Returns Increasingly Popular
- 19 Mar 2015 3:00 AM
- business
The option to ask the Tax and Customs Office (NAV) to prepare personal income tax returns is increasingly popular, daily Magyar Nemzet said. As many as 317,000 people requested it last year, up from 290,000 in 2013 and 231,000 in 2012, the paper said, citing NAV figures.
Regional Survey: Why Do East European Expats Stay In The West?
- 18 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Many of the Hungarian expatriates in the West originally meant to work away from home just for a few years but eventually they never return. Most of them remit money to their relatives but, paradoxically, the remittances might have a negative effect on the Hungarian economy.
Gabriella Heiszler, CEO of SPAR Hungary
- 17 Mar 2015 11:00 AM
Gabriella was born in 1975 in Budapest. She studied first at the Corvinus University of Budapest and then at the universities of Passau and St. Gallen. Then in 2005 she also received her post-graduate law degree.
More Immigrants Arriving In Hungary From Syria, Afghanistan
- 17 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Hungary from Kosovo has dropped since the start of the year. At the same time, the number of illegal migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq remains high, the director of the national immigration and citizenship office said. In an unprecedented trend, more than 7,000 illegal immigrants have arrived from those three countries since the beginning of ...
Hungarian Foreign Policy Has To Be Adjusted To The New World Order
- 13 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
At an extraordinary general meeting of ambassadors of Hungary, Viktor Orbán defined the basis of Hungarian foreign policy doctrine – independent foreign policy based on national interests – by saying that Hungary is not looking for uniformity of interests with influential countries, but the aim is to ensure that Hungarian success is in other countries’ interests.
Xpat Opinion: Sunday Closing Law A Bad Idea
- 30 Mar 2015 9:00 AM
- shopping
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: The Sunday closing law that came into effect March 15 is a bad idea. It only serves special interests, and it should be killed – by legislation or a referendum. The chorus of opposition to the Sunday closing law has mostly hit the same basic note: Forcing larger retailers to close on Sundays is bad for business and the economy.
Budapest Assembly Restores Temporary Homeless Allowance
- 24 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Budapest assembly unanimously approved an opposition proposal to restore a temporary homeless allowance in a vote on Monday. The related amendment submitted by opposition LMP deputy Antal Csárdi restores the ten-month 11,400 forint (EUR 38) monthly allowance scrapped at the beginning of March.
European Greens Hold Hearing On Hungary Paks Project
- 20 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Rebecca Harms, co-leader of the Green group in the European Parliament, and Hungarian MEP Benedek Jávor held a hearing dedicated to the planned upgrade of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant. At the hearing, Harms noted that the Greens have fundamental objection to nuclear technology, but also added that circumstances around Hungary’s decision to add two new blocks to the plant using a Russian ...
EU Film Festival In Chicago Brings Europe To American Movie Lovers
- 20 Mar 2015 7:59 AM
- entertainment
“Hungary is country full of contradictions, a very colorful place that's a happy and depressive place at the same time. I think Budapest is an exeptionally beautiful capital and it's important to me that people abroad feel the same way about it.” Says Gabor Reisz, the director of the Hungarian comedy “For Some Inexplicable Reason” (Van Valami Furcsa es Megmagyarazhatatlan).
Option Of Tax Office Preparing Tax Returns Increasingly Popular
- 19 Mar 2015 3:00 AM
- business
The option to ask the Tax and Customs Office (NAV) to prepare personal income tax returns is increasingly popular, daily Magyar Nemzet said. As many as 317,000 people requested it last year, up from 290,000 in 2013 and 231,000 in 2012, the paper said, citing NAV figures.
Regional Survey: Why Do East European Expats Stay In The West?
- 18 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Many of the Hungarian expatriates in the West originally meant to work away from home just for a few years but eventually they never return. Most of them remit money to their relatives but, paradoxically, the remittances might have a negative effect on the Hungarian economy.
Gabriella Heiszler, CEO of SPAR Hungary
- 17 Mar 2015 11:00 AM
Gabriella was born in 1975 in Budapest. She studied first at the Corvinus University of Budapest and then at the universities of Passau and St. Gallen. Then in 2005 she also received her post-graduate law degree.
More Immigrants Arriving In Hungary From Syria, Afghanistan
- 17 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Hungary from Kosovo has dropped since the start of the year. At the same time, the number of illegal migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq remains high, the director of the national immigration and citizenship office said. In an unprecedented trend, more than 7,000 illegal immigrants have arrived from those three countries since the beginning of ...
Hungarian Foreign Policy Has To Be Adjusted To The New World Order
- 13 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
At an extraordinary general meeting of ambassadors of Hungary, Viktor Orbán defined the basis of Hungarian foreign policy doctrine – independent foreign policy based on national interests – by saying that Hungary is not looking for uniformity of interests with influential countries, but the aim is to ensure that Hungarian success is in other countries’ interests.