1,132 result(s) for protest
We Hear You - Stereo Akt @ Sziget Festival Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 2:30 AM
- entertainment
Interactive documentary performance about European cultures of complaining.
Co-production of STEREO Akt (HU) and SPACE (NL)
Supporters: Sziget, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Füge Production
12-16 August – Festival version at Sziget, Theatre and Dance Venue. The creative process will result in a performance at Trafó, on 23/24 October.
Forum On Planned Immigrant Shelter In Hungary
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
An unscheduled public forum was held in Sormás in southwest Hungary where state secretary Tibor Pogácsás briefed local residents about plans to set up a local reception centre for immigrants. After consultations with the local mayor, Pogácsás said the temporary facility would be made up of containers and tents. Construction work is to start in late August or early September, he added.
Hungarian Villagers Resist Plans For Refugee Camps
- 4 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Residents of Martonfa resisted government plans to build a refugee camp near their Baranya county village by erecting tents and occupying the space. Police checked their papers on Monday afternoon then returned in the evening and warned them that they were trespassing, after which they left.
Jobbik Backs Protest Of Planned Reception Centre In Hungary
- 3 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party backs protests against plans to build a temporary reception centre for migrants near Sormás, southwest Hungary, Krisztián Berta, the deputy leader of the party’s regional chapter said. Under a decree published in the government’s official gazette Magyar Közlöny, two reception centres are planned, one near Mártonfa, in southern Hungary, and one in Sormás.
Police Remove FX Civil Movement Demonstrators In Central Budapest
- 23 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Police removed 17 activists of a civil movement representing troubled forex mortgage holders who blocked a section of a street in central Budapest in a banned sit-down demonstration on Thursday morning, the police said on its website. The movement originally asked permission from the police to stage a demonstration with about 100-400 participants to demand the suspension of foreclosures and ...
Demonstration Against Border Fence Held By Basilica
- 15 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration was held against the border fence being erected on Hungary’s border with Serbia and tightened migrant laws, the organising migrants rights group MigSzol said. Protesters gathered in front of the Basilica in central Budapest voiced their opposition to the government’s “portrayal of migrants as economic immigrants”. Speakers addressing the event said building a fence on the border ...
Radical Nationalists Protest Against Immigrants In Budapest
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of supporters of the Sixty- Four Counties Youth Movement held a protest in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station against “raging hordes of migrants” on Friday. György Gyula Zagyva, the co-leader of the organisation, said the demonstration was the first in a series of similar events to be staged at Hungary’s borders, at refugee camps, and other places in Budapest where migrants seek ...
Xpat Opinion: Echoes In Hungary Of US Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Ruling
- 8 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States defining same sex marriage as a constitutional right splits Hungarian public life across the left liberal versus conservative divide line. The leftist argument is that the law must not stand in the way of love, while conservatives fear that same-sex marriage will further aggravate demographic decline in developed countries.
Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...
We Hear You - Stereo Akt @ Sziget Festival Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 2:30 AM
- entertainment
Interactive documentary performance about European cultures of complaining.
Co-production of STEREO Akt (HU) and SPACE (NL)
Supporters: Sziget, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Füge Production
12-16 August – Festival version at Sziget, Theatre and Dance Venue. The creative process will result in a performance at Trafó, on 23/24 October.
Forum On Planned Immigrant Shelter In Hungary
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
An unscheduled public forum was held in Sormás in southwest Hungary where state secretary Tibor Pogácsás briefed local residents about plans to set up a local reception centre for immigrants. After consultations with the local mayor, Pogácsás said the temporary facility would be made up of containers and tents. Construction work is to start in late August or early September, he added.
Hungarian Villagers Resist Plans For Refugee Camps
- 4 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Residents of Martonfa resisted government plans to build a refugee camp near their Baranya county village by erecting tents and occupying the space. Police checked their papers on Monday afternoon then returned in the evening and warned them that they were trespassing, after which they left.
Jobbik Backs Protest Of Planned Reception Centre In Hungary
- 3 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party backs protests against plans to build a temporary reception centre for migrants near Sormás, southwest Hungary, Krisztián Berta, the deputy leader of the party’s regional chapter said. Under a decree published in the government’s official gazette Magyar Közlöny, two reception centres are planned, one near Mártonfa, in southern Hungary, and one in Sormás.
Police Remove FX Civil Movement Demonstrators In Central Budapest
- 23 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Police removed 17 activists of a civil movement representing troubled forex mortgage holders who blocked a section of a street in central Budapest in a banned sit-down demonstration on Thursday morning, the police said on its website. The movement originally asked permission from the police to stage a demonstration with about 100-400 participants to demand the suspension of foreclosures and ...
Demonstration Against Border Fence Held By Basilica
- 15 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration was held against the border fence being erected on Hungary’s border with Serbia and tightened migrant laws, the organising migrants rights group MigSzol said. Protesters gathered in front of the Basilica in central Budapest voiced their opposition to the government’s “portrayal of migrants as economic immigrants”. Speakers addressing the event said building a fence on the border ...
Radical Nationalists Protest Against Immigrants In Budapest
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of supporters of the Sixty- Four Counties Youth Movement held a protest in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station against “raging hordes of migrants” on Friday. György Gyula Zagyva, the co-leader of the organisation, said the demonstration was the first in a series of similar events to be staged at Hungary’s borders, at refugee camps, and other places in Budapest where migrants seek ...
Xpat Opinion: Echoes In Hungary Of US Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Ruling
- 8 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States defining same sex marriage as a constitutional right splits Hungarian public life across the left liberal versus conservative divide line. The leftist argument is that the law must not stand in the way of love, while conservatives fear that same-sex marriage will further aggravate demographic decline in developed countries.
Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...