415 result(s) for scandal
Xpat Opinion: MSZP Blamed In Defence Of The Tobacco-Shop Decisions In Hungary
- 21 May 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
A pro-government daily claims that the tobacco shop scandal and demands to reveal details of the evaluation process of rival bids is simply a trick that helps the MSZP draw up a list of “collaborators” with the present government – with the intention of punishing them later.
Hay Festival Budapest Program: 19 - 21 May
- 18 May 2013 5:00 AM
- community & culture
On 19 May, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday, there will also be a wide variety of programmes at Hay Festival Budapest for the culture-loving audience. György Dragomán hosts a wine-tasting event and a free poetic walk. The festival’s guests will be the prominent Australian feminist author Germaine Greer and Jaap Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest, and the British Peter Florence, founder and ...
Hay Festival In Budapest Again
- 15 May 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hay Festival was founded in Hay-on-Wye 25 years ago, and it has grown into one of the most significant cultural series of events in the world, with eleven festivals across five continents. On 17-21 May, the Hungarian audience will have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the Hay Festival, in Petőfi Museum of Literature, the Central ...
Xpat Opinion: Transparency Restrictions Criticised In Hungary
- 7 May 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A centre-right columnist finds that the new amendment to the Freedom of Information Act is a grave mistake, but he discloses that he was told by inside sources that the real reason behind it was not to cover up the tobacco shop concession-scandal.
Xpat Opinion: “Socialist Watergate” Tape Transcripts In Hungary
- 25 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators weigh the possible implications of conversations conducted by Hungary’s counter-espionage chief with a prominent mafioso in 2008, on how the latter could be helpful in discrediting right-wing politicians.
Xpat Invitation: Hay Festival Budapest 2013
- 11 Apr 2013 9:55 AM
- community & culture
Among the biggest names appearing this year is Nicole Krauss, trumpeted by the New York Times as “one of the most important novelists in the United States”. Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Maths at the University of Oxford, will be here to read from his new book about the ‘mysteries of symmetry’. Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese poet, journalist and translator, will also take part, as will Fernando ...
The European Left Uses Hungary As Campaign Tool
- 9 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Europe's left wing is using Hungary to criticize the right, more than a year before elections to the European Parliament and five months before Germans go to the polls, Public Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics said on public radio on Sunday.
Xpat Opinion: Far Right Journalist Forced To Return Government Award
- 22 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A centrist blog argues that the award granted to an openly racist journalist reveals the problems with the highly centralised government Prime Minister Orbán has created, as Zoltan Balog, the Minister for Human Resources has to supervise too many areas.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's President To Sign Controversial Constitution Amendments
- 14 Mar 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The President has announced that he will sign the controversial amendments to the Constitution. Earlier, a left-wing pundit argued that he should raise his voice against them. A pro-government legal expert objected that the President had no other lawful option than to promulgate the amendments.
Xpat Opinion: MSZP Blamed In Defence Of The Tobacco-Shop Decisions In Hungary
- 21 May 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
A pro-government daily claims that the tobacco shop scandal and demands to reveal details of the evaluation process of rival bids is simply a trick that helps the MSZP draw up a list of “collaborators” with the present government – with the intention of punishing them later.
Hay Festival Budapest Program: 19 - 21 May
- 18 May 2013 5:00 AM
- community & culture
On 19 May, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday, there will also be a wide variety of programmes at Hay Festival Budapest for the culture-loving audience. György Dragomán hosts a wine-tasting event and a free poetic walk. The festival’s guests will be the prominent Australian feminist author Germaine Greer and Jaap Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest, and the British Peter Florence, founder and ...
Hay Festival In Budapest Again
- 15 May 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hay Festival was founded in Hay-on-Wye 25 years ago, and it has grown into one of the most significant cultural series of events in the world, with eleven festivals across five continents. On 17-21 May, the Hungarian audience will have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the Hay Festival, in Petőfi Museum of Literature, the Central ...
Xpat Opinion: Transparency Restrictions Criticised In Hungary
- 7 May 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A centre-right columnist finds that the new amendment to the Freedom of Information Act is a grave mistake, but he discloses that he was told by inside sources that the real reason behind it was not to cover up the tobacco shop concession-scandal.
Xpat Opinion: “Socialist Watergate” Tape Transcripts In Hungary
- 25 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators weigh the possible implications of conversations conducted by Hungary’s counter-espionage chief with a prominent mafioso in 2008, on how the latter could be helpful in discrediting right-wing politicians.
Xpat Invitation: Hay Festival Budapest 2013
- 11 Apr 2013 9:55 AM
- community & culture
Among the biggest names appearing this year is Nicole Krauss, trumpeted by the New York Times as “one of the most important novelists in the United States”. Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Maths at the University of Oxford, will be here to read from his new book about the ‘mysteries of symmetry’. Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese poet, journalist and translator, will also take part, as will Fernando ...
The European Left Uses Hungary As Campaign Tool
- 9 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Europe's left wing is using Hungary to criticize the right, more than a year before elections to the European Parliament and five months before Germans go to the polls, Public Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics said on public radio on Sunday.
Xpat Opinion: Far Right Journalist Forced To Return Government Award
- 22 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A centrist blog argues that the award granted to an openly racist journalist reveals the problems with the highly centralised government Prime Minister Orbán has created, as Zoltan Balog, the Minister for Human Resources has to supervise too many areas.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's President To Sign Controversial Constitution Amendments
- 14 Mar 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The President has announced that he will sign the controversial amendments to the Constitution. Earlier, a left-wing pundit argued that he should raise his voice against them. A pro-government legal expert objected that the President had no other lawful option than to promulgate the amendments.