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Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PMO Grants Itself Unsupervised Access To Cookie Jar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian parliament voted today to strip itself of the right to approve interim changes to the budget. Fidesz MPs successfully passed a controversial bill that modifies the budget law to allow the government to unilaterally decide how to spend state funds, reports Hungarian business news site portfolio.hu. The proposal was submitted one month ago by Minister Overseeing the Office of the ...
Kövér: CBank Foundations’ Assets Public Money
- 4 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The assets handled by foundations of the National Bank of Hungary are to be considered as public funds, László Kövér, Hungary’s House speaker, told the Hungarian Catholic Radio. “What else would they be?” Kövér answered a question in connection with a recent amendment under which the central bank could deny access to information on such funds because once donated to a foundation they would “lose ...
Xpat Opinion: Statue Strife Nr 2: György Donáth
- 1 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Commenting on a foiled initiative to unveil the bust of a pre-war right-wing politician, left-wing commentators accuse the government of indulging in a cult of racist personalities. Their pro-government counterpart denies the allegation that György Donáth was an anti-Semite, while an independent conservative author calls on the opposing sides to show more tolerance towards each other.
Parl CTTEE Head Reports ‘National Risk’ Over Election Office Incident
- 26 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The head of parliament’s national security committee reported “a national security risk” to the interior minister over events that took place during the submission of a referendum question at the National Election Office (NVI) earlier this week.
Operations Manager Hungary Uber ‘Not Taxi Service’
- 19 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
Uber is not a taxi service but an IT company that operates an online marketplace for passenger transport and car sharing, the company’s operations manager in Hungary said. All payments are made electronically and transparently, Zoltán Fekete said.
Time Stands Still: See 1960s Budapest At Fészek Club
- 19 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- entertainment
One of the frustrating things about Budapest is that you can’t capture all of its major landmarks in one photo, despite many of them being so close together. There’s nowhere you can stand where you can take a photo that includes all four of the most famous bridges, that also includes the Liberty Statue and the Buda Castle plus the Parliament building on the other side of the Danube. Even if ...
Palkovics Pledges “Calm, Stability” For Hungarian Teachers
- 8 Feb 2016 2:00 AM
- current affairs
Teachers need calm, stable and predictable conditions so that they focus on their work, Hungary’s new state secretary of education said. László Palkovics said he expected Tuesday’s public education roundtable to be a “constructive” conference with teachers’ demands and the government’s expectations on its agenda.
EU Court Of Human Rights Says Online Media Not Liable For Readers’ Comments
- 8 Feb 2016 12:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that a Hungarian court violated the freedom of expression when it held the publisher of online daily index.hu and the Hungarian Content Service Association liable for comments posted to index.hu’s website, providing the comments are moderated in a timely manner.
Social Media & Political Change: Case Of Hungarian “Teachers’ Revolt”
- 2 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
I am following with fascination the Orbán government’s reaction to the “teachers’ revolt” that originated with a single complaining letter from a high school in Miskolc, a town that’s not exactly the center of Hungarian liberalism.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PMO Grants Itself Unsupervised Access To Cookie Jar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian parliament voted today to strip itself of the right to approve interim changes to the budget. Fidesz MPs successfully passed a controversial bill that modifies the budget law to allow the government to unilaterally decide how to spend state funds, reports Hungarian business news site portfolio.hu. The proposal was submitted one month ago by Minister Overseeing the Office of the ...
Kövér: CBank Foundations’ Assets Public Money
- 4 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The assets handled by foundations of the National Bank of Hungary are to be considered as public funds, László Kövér, Hungary’s House speaker, told the Hungarian Catholic Radio. “What else would they be?” Kövér answered a question in connection with a recent amendment under which the central bank could deny access to information on such funds because once donated to a foundation they would “lose ...
Xpat Opinion: Statue Strife Nr 2: György Donáth
- 1 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Commenting on a foiled initiative to unveil the bust of a pre-war right-wing politician, left-wing commentators accuse the government of indulging in a cult of racist personalities. Their pro-government counterpart denies the allegation that György Donáth was an anti-Semite, while an independent conservative author calls on the opposing sides to show more tolerance towards each other.
Parl CTTEE Head Reports ‘National Risk’ Over Election Office Incident
- 26 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The head of parliament’s national security committee reported “a national security risk” to the interior minister over events that took place during the submission of a referendum question at the National Election Office (NVI) earlier this week.
Operations Manager Hungary Uber ‘Not Taxi Service’
- 19 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
Uber is not a taxi service but an IT company that operates an online marketplace for passenger transport and car sharing, the company’s operations manager in Hungary said. All payments are made electronically and transparently, Zoltán Fekete said.
Time Stands Still: See 1960s Budapest At Fészek Club
- 19 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- entertainment
One of the frustrating things about Budapest is that you can’t capture all of its major landmarks in one photo, despite many of them being so close together. There’s nowhere you can stand where you can take a photo that includes all four of the most famous bridges, that also includes the Liberty Statue and the Buda Castle plus the Parliament building on the other side of the Danube. Even if ...
Palkovics Pledges “Calm, Stability” For Hungarian Teachers
- 8 Feb 2016 2:00 AM
- current affairs
Teachers need calm, stable and predictable conditions so that they focus on their work, Hungary’s new state secretary of education said. László Palkovics said he expected Tuesday’s public education roundtable to be a “constructive” conference with teachers’ demands and the government’s expectations on its agenda.
EU Court Of Human Rights Says Online Media Not Liable For Readers’ Comments
- 8 Feb 2016 12:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that a Hungarian court violated the freedom of expression when it held the publisher of online daily index.hu and the Hungarian Content Service Association liable for comments posted to index.hu’s website, providing the comments are moderated in a timely manner.
Social Media & Political Change: Case Of Hungarian “Teachers’ Revolt”
- 2 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
I am following with fascination the Orbán government’s reaction to the “teachers’ revolt” that originated with a single complaining letter from a high school in Miskolc, a town that’s not exactly the center of Hungarian liberalism.