19 June 2013
Budapest is a city filled with dark secrets, tales of mysterious murders and black magic – or at least so we’re told by the people behind the latest tourist option: The Budapest Ghost Tour. A new event for the summer, this tour takes visitors and history enthusiasts on a journey through the darker side of…
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18 June 2013
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17 June 2013
Commuters were given some relief this morning, with the re-opening of the riverside road on the Buda embankment. It was covered with more than three metres of water at the height of the flood. The north-south road on the Pest side of the Danube will not re-open for a couple more days yet as the…
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17 June 2013
The Hungarian National Film Fund (MNF) is to pump HUF 477.5 million (EUR 1.6 million) into two new domestic productions. The first is the sequel to Argo (the 2004 Hungarian crime actioner, not Ben Affleck’s Iranian hostage drama). The project, helmed – as Variety would put it – by Attila Árpa, will get HUF 296.5…
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16 June 2013
Revelations of the extensive online spying carried out by the United States has made several European countries, Hungary included, criticise the actions of its National Security Agency. Attila Péterfalvi, head of the Hungarian data-protection authority (NAIH), told state news agency MTI that the authorities involved are putting up a smokescreen. He said the information that…
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16 June 2013
Hungary’s ambassador to London János Csák thanked a “fantastic British audience” in a live phone call on Saturday after viewers voted Hungarian dark light theatre group Attraction into first place in the “fantastic” Britain’s Got Talent competition. Attraction got 27 per cent of the vote, well ahead of second-placed Jack Carroll, a 14-year-old Yorkshire comedian.…
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16 June 2013
Exactly why a luxury hotel in republican France was named in honour of a British king when it opened in Paris in 1928 is unknown to us. Neither are we aware if George Frederick Ernest Albert, more commonly known as George V when he occupied the throne from 1910 to 1936, ever crossed La Manche…
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16 June 2013
One of the most iconic photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, Helmut Newton remains popular not only for his fashion photography and often striking female nudes but also for many memorable portraits. The Museum of Fine Arts is exhibiting over 250 of his artistic, and sometimes shocking, images. At the height of…
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15 June 2013
Government lawmakers pushed through amendments to freedom of information legislation on Tuesday after making minor changes to a bill that was initially rejected by President János Áder. view full post »
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15 June 2013
The Hungarian Red Cross has helped nearly 40,000 people affected by the River Danube flood this week. The total of donations received by the nation’s largest humanitarian organisation has reached HUF 28 million (EUR 94,370). Help has been provided in more than 30 settlements by 450 Red Cross employees and more than 3,000 volunteers. They…
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15 June 2013
Publishers and other media outlets breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission proposed Hungary’s withdrawal from the excessive deficit procedure this month and said the country’s deficit target can be met without new taxes, but their joy may have been premature. view full post »
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15 June 2013
A clause that allows the government or local authorities to criminalise the practice of sleeping rough in public places is just one of several controversial measures in the recent Fourth Amendment to Hungary’s Constitution. In April, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said the measure effectively turns the homeless into…
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15 June 2013
There were wide eyes at the family home of the Menedékház (Shelter) Foundation when the International Women’s Club (IWC) surprised the children there with a donation that they will surely take pleasure in for a long time: boxes and boxes of LEGO. view full post »
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15 June 2013
Last time Mark Knopfler set foot on Papp László Budapest Sportaréna’s stage it was to promote his latest album Get Lucky. Two years earlier, in 2008, it was his latest solo work, Kill to Get Crimson, that got all the attention. Now it is to mark the release of Privateering last September that he is…
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