25 May 2013
The candidate favoured by ruling right-wing party Fidesz, Júlia Fabényi, has been appointed director of Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Human Resources Ministry announced on Tuesday. Activists protesting against what they called opaque and politically motivated decisions in the cultural sphere had to concede defeat after a two-week sit-in at the museum. view full…
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25 May 2013
Local hound Bottom Shaker My Secret, or as he is known outside the ring, Jimmy, was named best in show out of over 18,000 dogs from 70 countries that took part in the World Dog Show 2013 in Budapest over the weekend. The six-year-old Old English Sheepdog already had several titles under his belt, including…
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25 May 2013
Since the last change of government the Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency (HITA) has come ever closer to the centre of power. Founded to take over the tasks of the former investment agency ITD Hungary, which resided on Andrássy út, HITA originally reported directly to the National Economy Ministry and moved into its immediate vicinity,…
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25 May 2013
The subtitle of this book sets the scene for what to expect: “The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind The Iron Curtain”. It sounds like an intriguing theme and in many ways it is, though not perhaps in the cloak-and-dagger manner that might be expected, given those words. Between 1957 and 1991 hundreds of…
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25 May 2013
Kamermayer Picnic 2013, organised downtown at Kamermayer Károly square (named after Budapest’s first mayor), is an event where adults and children can relax, or looking at this weekend’s weather forecast, perhaps chill out. Held this Saturday 25 May, adult programs run from 7am till late, with children’s programmes from 10am until late. Who: Kamermayer Károly…
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25 May 2013
The diverse and creative VivArt! Festival in the city centre of Budapest kicks off this weekend. The nine-day programme is designed to draw attention to the beauty of the capital’s central districts. The venues are important cultural or social centres. VivArt! will encompass music from Odett and Lapidum, exhibitions in the Printa Gallery and Casati…
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25 May 2013
Not only has District VII’s Kazinczy utca snatched from District IX’s Ráday utca its status as “the” food and party street in Budapest, it’s also home to a mindbogglingly varied array of eating and drinking opportunities. Take, for instance, Bors Gasztrobár, whose two owners are possibly among the very few to have turned from a…
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24 May 2013
Germany is Hungary’s most important investor and trading partner but apparently that does not mean it is exempt from Viktor Orbán’s populist wit. The prime minister’s regular Friday radio interview has long been a soapbox from which he can proclaim his defiance of any hint of interference from Brussels; this time around it was Berlin’s…
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24 May 2013
Hungarian mountaineers Zsolt Erõss and Péter Kiss were reported missing on Wednesday after failing to return to their base camp 7,600 metres up Mount Kanchenjunga on the border of Nepal and India. The climbers had reached the 8,586-metre peak of the world’s third-highest mountain two days earlier. Fellow team member Júlia Nedeczky told Inforádió that…
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24 May 2013
South Africans treat a baboon in the kitchen with the required respect, and wise Canadians know they should allow an errant moose its personal space no matter what liberties it takes with the geraniums. Residents of the leafy slopes of Budapest’s Gellért Hill, however, are not accustomed to invasion by dangerous wild animals, so the…
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24 May 2013
The day before EU leaders declared war on tax evasion and promised a crackdown on aggressive legal avoidance this week, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for action over the scandal of an estimated annual EUR 1 trillion in lost tax revenue. According to a report commissioned by the ALDE group from Tax Research…
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24 May 2013
The last Sunday in May is Children’s Day in Hungary. Isn’t every day Children’s Day? And how come there is no Father’s Day here? Anyway, Duna Plaza (District XIII, Váci út 178) is organising its Chocolate Festival 25-26 May to celebrate your household chocolate thieves, with lots of games, chocolate rewards and concerts for kids. Aimed not only…
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24 May 2013
Within 10 years of Martin Luther’s now-famous declaration against the Roman Catholic Church that sparked the Protestant Reformation, other voices began to emerge. They called for an even stronger separation from the Catholics. Luther had certainly wanted a simpler faith but for many his reforms against the Catholic Church just did not go far enough.…
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24 May 2013
We are the little people. We pay taxes. These taxes are usually deducted from our salaries at source. We pay additional taxes when we buy petrol. Those taxes are buried in the price of the petrol. We know this because the poverty-stricken oil companies remind us that the reason it is so expensive is because…
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