The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP) on Thursday announced its new communication officers former TV presenter Kata Kormos (pictured left) and former MP Zsolt Torok. Kormos said she believes in the party’s revival and that she intends to explain the socialist stance on people’s everyday problems, on a personal level. “Hungarians are confused about what’s going [...]
For the first time in more than a decade, the Dalai Lama, the Buddhist leader of religious officials of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat” branch of Tibetan Buddhism is scheduled to visit Hungary on Sept 18-19. Tickets for his lecture are already sold out, according to reports, as it has sparked international interest due to [...]
Speaking at the annual Ambassadors’ Summit on Monday in Budapest, PM Viktor Orban said that national unity has arrived in Hungary in 2010. For the diplomatic sphere, this means that the nation has regained its voice on the international stage, he added. Orban claimed that his Government has restored the rule of law in Hungary, [...]
With the upcoming Municipal Elections to be held without Budapest’s Gabor Demszky due to his withdrawal, caucus leaders delivered goodbye speeches thanking the outgoing politician for his his alleged work, at the City Council’s Thursday meeting. Fidesz leader Istvan Gyorgy said that criticizing Demszky is “not appropriate” at such a meeting, but added that his [...]
The Hungarian Tax Agency (APEH), could gain the power to eavesdrop on citizens as the Government recently initiated its merger with the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard (VPOP), an organization with the jurisdiction to carry out police-style investigations. The merger, overseen by recently appointed APEH President Ildiko Vida, has left security experts worried about excessive [...]
Hungarian National Flood Relief Agency Director Gyorgy Bakondi (pictured) on Wednesday told reporters that the Government must provide emergency housing for all homeless flood victims by the end of October. Bakondi said that funds will be redirected from the Aug 20 fireworks show (worth HUF 150 million) to the renovation of destroyed homes. The Director [...]
It was perhaps Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard (pictured) who is to blame for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Holocausts. It was reportedly Szilard who first succeeded in bringing about a nuclear chain reaction from a split atom in 1933and later patented the idea. He turned to German-Swiss Nobel physicist laureate Albert Einstein and together they developed [...]
The Slovakian Prosecutor’s Office is reportedly going to review the complaint lodged by Slovakian lassie Hedviga Malinova, who is a member of the 520,500 minority Hungarians living in Slovakia. Her defending lawyer, Roman Kvasnica has requested that Slovakia’s Chief Prosecutor Dobroslav Tmka agree to hear key witnesses who have not yet been called to testify. [...]
Political and cultural ties have never been so strong between Hungary and its northern neighbor Slovakia, according to Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic. He claims that the recent shift in political parties in both countries has led to the improvement of ties on both sides. The President has insisted that talks between Slovakia and Hungary should [...]
Authorities wish to start fining perpetrators who smoke in any of the underpasses or the entrances of Budapest’s underground network after September 1, 2010, now that the new anti-smoking law has been introduced. Anyone caugh huffing and puffing the tobacco plant can expect to dig deep into their pockets to pay a whopping penalty of [...]
Learning from the achievements of former new York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Hungary’s Interior Minister Sandor Pinter has launched an outright war against crime in the Hungarian capital. He reportedly wants beggars and loafers off the street and plans to have them temporaily and permanently employed some way or another. He was reportedly quoted saying, [...]
Pal Schmitt (68) was recently inaugurated as Hungary’s new President of the Republic. Although the position is meaningless as the president in Hungary has little or no powers, it does come with its benefits and prestigious moments. One of the benefits of being the president is that he can veto parliamentary decisions and send them [...]
The Hungarian Government has launched a new initiative to send Gypsy teenagers to summer camps and hold law enforcement seminars for them there. A non-profit society is managing the camps in close collaboration with the Hungarian police force under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for law enforcement. Teen-agers are being enlightened [...]
Hungarian universities claim that in 2010 less qualified Hungarian doctors will be leaving the country and added that already 80% of those who graduated have begged to be allowed to stay on as so-called resident doctors at the university clinic hospitals in Hungary. In 2010 there were allegedly some 700 medical graduates Of the 700 [...]
A Human Rights Committee of the Hungarian Parliament is to question former disgraced Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in September 2010. Incidentally Gyurcsany was also head of the Socialist Party (MSzP) that led the failed social-liberal government coalition between April 2002 and April 2010. Ironically Gyurcsany was never actually elected Prime Minister by the Hungarian people [...]
Hungarians have always been leaders in the field of mathematics and computer sciences and it was Hungarian-born American mathematician, John von Neumann, who is dubbed the father of the computer after he came up with the idea of the binomial system in 1951. But like in any other country in the world Internet crimes have [...]
The American heirs of Hungarian banking magnate baron Lipot Mor Herzog are reportedly still waiting for the Hungarian Government’s reactions to their claim to retrieve the stolen works of art that once belonged to their wealthy Hungarian ancestor. Herzog’s heirs have in the United States reportedly filed a restitution lawsuit against the Hungarian state who [...]
The Hungarian Government is due to take over the presidency of the European Union on Jan 1, 2011 for the six-month period that follows. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly vowed to help boost European initiatives while also boosting the national economy of Hungary. His government is focusing on a full restructuring of the strategic [...]
Hungary’s centre-right government coalition, which holds a 2/3 majority in Parliament plans to pass 42 new laws in November this year. The laws are expected to effect the 2011 central budget, a 16% flat rate personal income tax and the merger of the revenue agency APEH with the customs authority. There is also a planned [...]
The new Hungarian government has pledged to politically clean up its 10 national parks, and they are allegedly starting from the top. Three of the nation’s biggest national parks will see the removal of their top executives. These are Gabor Salamon (director of the Aggtelek National Park, located in North-eastern Hungary), Istvan Sandor (director the [...]
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