87 result(s) for stadiums
Hungary’s Opposition Parties Slam Govt Plans
- 16 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition politicians savaged the government’s economic policies ahead of the budget vote. Socialist lawmaker Sándor Burány said that the budget was based on tax rises which had a common theme: the government was taxing everything it possibly could. The Socialist head of parliament’s budget committee said the government’s goal was to safeguard the deficit target while paying for “prestige ...
Hungary’s Jobbik Calls For Cancelling Measures To Control Soccer Fans
- 29 Oct 2014 8:00 AM
- sport
The radical nationalist Jobbik party on Tuesday called on the government to cancel measures introduced to control soccer fans. Deputy leader István Apáti said the legal rules in question have caused a drop in the number of spectators, lower ticket sales, fewer sponsors and decreased revenues from television broadcasts, which means clubs losing income in the range of 100 million forints.
Xpat Opinion: Thousands Demonstrate In Budapest Against Internet Tax
- 28 Oct 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading left-wing daily describes how Sunday’s protest against the planned internet tax turned into an overall anti-Fidesz demonstration. A moderate blog wonders if the opposition will in the future try to counter the government through similar, not necessarily non-violent mass rallies.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Half Of Families With Children Report Problems Affording Food In Hungary
- 3 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Almost half of Hungary’s families with children struggle to afford food, a Socialist politician said on Monday, citing a study of OECD member countries. Ildikó Borbély Bangó told a press conference that 47% of the families in the Gallup survey had found it difficult to buy food at some point.
Xpat Opinion: Felcsút Stadium In Hungary Under The Microscope
- 28 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Prime Minister is mocked and criticised by left-liberal pundits for having a football stadium built in his native Felcsút. The project is also criticised by a moderate right-wing commentator.Several stadiums are under construction in a project aimed at propping up ailing Hungarian football. The Felcsút pitch is part of a football academy sponsored by a tax rebate programme for enterprises ...
Xpat Opinion: The Risk Of Political Christianity: An Interview With Tamás Fabiny, Lutheran Bishop
- 21 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Gábor Czene of Népszabadság conducted an interview with Tamás Fabiny, bishop of the northern district of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. Fabiny was ordained in Erlangen, Germany in 1982. He also studied in the United States. In addition to his church activities he worked for Duna TV. Since 2010 he has been the vice chairman of the Lutheran World Federation.
Hungary’s Socialists To Scrap Government’s “Idiotic” Economic Policy
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Attila Mesterházy, leader of the opposition Socialist Party, pledged to scrap what he called the Fidesz government’s “idiotic” economic policy and “perverted” social policy if it wins next year’s election.
Hungary's Socialist Party President: Gov’t Is Ignoring The Poor
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Socialist government would discontinue the present “idiotic” economic policy, as well as the “perverse” social policy, Socialist Party president Attila Mesterházy said yesterday as he presented the Pest county parliamentary candidates of the Socialists and Together-Dialogue.
Hungary’s Opposition Parties Slam Govt Plans
- 16 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition politicians savaged the government’s economic policies ahead of the budget vote. Socialist lawmaker Sándor Burány said that the budget was based on tax rises which had a common theme: the government was taxing everything it possibly could. The Socialist head of parliament’s budget committee said the government’s goal was to safeguard the deficit target while paying for “prestige ...
Hungary’s Jobbik Calls For Cancelling Measures To Control Soccer Fans
- 29 Oct 2014 8:00 AM
- sport
The radical nationalist Jobbik party on Tuesday called on the government to cancel measures introduced to control soccer fans. Deputy leader István Apáti said the legal rules in question have caused a drop in the number of spectators, lower ticket sales, fewer sponsors and decreased revenues from television broadcasts, which means clubs losing income in the range of 100 million forints.
Xpat Opinion: Thousands Demonstrate In Budapest Against Internet Tax
- 28 Oct 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading left-wing daily describes how Sunday’s protest against the planned internet tax turned into an overall anti-Fidesz demonstration. A moderate blog wonders if the opposition will in the future try to counter the government through similar, not necessarily non-violent mass rallies.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Half Of Families With Children Report Problems Affording Food In Hungary
- 3 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Almost half of Hungary’s families with children struggle to afford food, a Socialist politician said on Monday, citing a study of OECD member countries. Ildikó Borbély Bangó told a press conference that 47% of the families in the Gallup survey had found it difficult to buy food at some point.
Xpat Opinion: Felcsút Stadium In Hungary Under The Microscope
- 28 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Prime Minister is mocked and criticised by left-liberal pundits for having a football stadium built in his native Felcsút. The project is also criticised by a moderate right-wing commentator.Several stadiums are under construction in a project aimed at propping up ailing Hungarian football. The Felcsút pitch is part of a football academy sponsored by a tax rebate programme for enterprises ...
Xpat Opinion: The Risk Of Political Christianity: An Interview With Tamás Fabiny, Lutheran Bishop
- 21 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Gábor Czene of Népszabadság conducted an interview with Tamás Fabiny, bishop of the northern district of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. Fabiny was ordained in Erlangen, Germany in 1982. He also studied in the United States. In addition to his church activities he worked for Duna TV. Since 2010 he has been the vice chairman of the Lutheran World Federation.
Hungary’s Socialists To Scrap Government’s “Idiotic” Economic Policy
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Attila Mesterházy, leader of the opposition Socialist Party, pledged to scrap what he called the Fidesz government’s “idiotic” economic policy and “perverted” social policy if it wins next year’s election.
Hungary's Socialist Party President: Gov’t Is Ignoring The Poor
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A Socialist government would discontinue the present “idiotic” economic policy, as well as the “perverse” social policy, Socialist Party president Attila Mesterházy said yesterday as he presented the Pest county parliamentary candidates of the Socialists and Together-Dialogue.