18 result(s) for tarn in Current Affairs
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 ...
Banned Midwife Agnes Geréb Faces Retrial In Hungary
- 15 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Geréb’s house arrest was terminated by the Capital Court of Appeals in February but she remains forbidden to leave Budapest. The last time Geréb appealed her sentence, a court lengthened her minimum period of incarceration to two-thirds of her two-year sentence and doubled her ban for practising as a midwife to ten years.
Hungarian Authorities Prepare For Grand Prix Weekend
- 25 Jul 2013 11:35 AM
- current affairs
A temporary police station will operate from a car park located near the Mogyoród race track during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix, Pest county police announced on Wednesday. Official race events begin on Friday with the first free trials at 10 a.m., followed by the second at 2 p.m., and the third at 11 a.m. Saturday. Time trials will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday and the race starts at 2 ...
Xpat Opinion: Council Of Europe Votes Down Proposal To Monitor Hungary
- 1 Jul 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
By Ferenc Kumin: An otherwise uneventful week at the end of April brought some quite unusual news: the Council of Europe, the 47-member international organization that promotes cooperation on human rights, rule of law and democracy and not to be confused with the European Union, was considering a proposal that would put Hungary under a formal monitoring procedure and it had passed a committee ...
Hungary's PM Orbán Bans Anti-Semitic Parade
- 9 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Parliament before regular business that he had instructed Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to ban the anti-Semitic motorcyclists parade planned for April 21, Holocaust Memorial Day. He said he had ordered a ban on all politically related events on the day of the March of the Living that could offend the marchers.
U.S: Embassy Budapest Celebrates International Day Against Racism
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
On March 21st, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Ambassador Kounalakis spoke at the dedication of a new community center opened by the March of the Living Foundation.
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Student Unrest Continues Despite Concessions By The Government
- 21 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Népszabadság believes the tuition issue will leave a lasting stain of shame on the image of the Prime Minister. Magyar Nemzet suggests that continuing demonstrations after the substantial concessions made by the government may backfire on the organisers.I
Roma-Gárda Conflict In Cegléd, Hungary
- 21 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Some 400 people organised by far-right groups gathered in Cegléd, central Hungary on Sunday night after a conflict developed between local Roma and the Új Magyar Gárda. Some 70-80 police officers cordoned off houses inhabited by Roma.
Far-Right Jobbik Gathers Perilous Clouds Over Hungary - International Press
- 14 Apr 2010 4:00 AM
- current affairs
"Hungary’s Socialist Party (MSZP) has received nearly 1.4 million votes less on Sunday, while centre-right Fidesz garnered almost 400,000 votes more than in the first round of the 2006 general elections. Fidesz looks set to gain a two-thirds majority in Parliament that would enable it to amend any legislation, including the constitution. Analysts expect the market reaction to be muted but ...
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 ...
Banned Midwife Agnes Geréb Faces Retrial In Hungary
- 15 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Geréb’s house arrest was terminated by the Capital Court of Appeals in February but she remains forbidden to leave Budapest. The last time Geréb appealed her sentence, a court lengthened her minimum period of incarceration to two-thirds of her two-year sentence and doubled her ban for practising as a midwife to ten years.
Hungarian Authorities Prepare For Grand Prix Weekend
- 25 Jul 2013 11:35 AM
- current affairs
A temporary police station will operate from a car park located near the Mogyoród race track during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix, Pest county police announced on Wednesday. Official race events begin on Friday with the first free trials at 10 a.m., followed by the second at 2 p.m., and the third at 11 a.m. Saturday. Time trials will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday and the race starts at 2 ...
Xpat Opinion: Council Of Europe Votes Down Proposal To Monitor Hungary
- 1 Jul 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
By Ferenc Kumin: An otherwise uneventful week at the end of April brought some quite unusual news: the Council of Europe, the 47-member international organization that promotes cooperation on human rights, rule of law and democracy and not to be confused with the European Union, was considering a proposal that would put Hungary under a formal monitoring procedure and it had passed a committee ...
Hungary's PM Orbán Bans Anti-Semitic Parade
- 9 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Parliament before regular business that he had instructed Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to ban the anti-Semitic motorcyclists parade planned for April 21, Holocaust Memorial Day. He said he had ordered a ban on all politically related events on the day of the March of the Living that could offend the marchers.
U.S: Embassy Budapest Celebrates International Day Against Racism
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
On March 21st, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Ambassador Kounalakis spoke at the dedication of a new community center opened by the March of the Living Foundation.
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Student Unrest Continues Despite Concessions By The Government
- 21 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Népszabadság believes the tuition issue will leave a lasting stain of shame on the image of the Prime Minister. Magyar Nemzet suggests that continuing demonstrations after the substantial concessions made by the government may backfire on the organisers.I
Roma-Gárda Conflict In Cegléd, Hungary
- 21 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Some 400 people organised by far-right groups gathered in Cegléd, central Hungary on Sunday night after a conflict developed between local Roma and the Új Magyar Gárda. Some 70-80 police officers cordoned off houses inhabited by Roma.
Far-Right Jobbik Gathers Perilous Clouds Over Hungary - International Press
- 14 Apr 2010 4:00 AM
- current affairs
"Hungary’s Socialist Party (MSZP) has received nearly 1.4 million votes less on Sunday, while centre-right Fidesz garnered almost 400,000 votes more than in the first round of the 2006 general elections. Fidesz looks set to gain a two-thirds majority in Parliament that would enable it to amend any legislation, including the constitution. Analysts expect the market reaction to be muted but ...