19 May 2013
Proposed amendments to the criminal code would mean assailants could be punishable with up to five years in prison, Public Administration and Justice Ministry state secretary Róbert Répássy said on Tuesday as he presented a bill to Parliament. It must be made clear that domestic violence is not a family affair but a serious criminal…
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19 May 2013
Some two dozen young Roma men and women were escorted into the state prison in Pécs last Friday, the latest batch to undergo shock treatment in a village mayor’s “chav elimination days” (köcsögmentesítési napok – readers are welcome to suggest their own translations). László Bogdán wants Roma from around Cserdi, Baranya County, to get an…
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19 May 2013
The country’s biggest financial institution, OTP, wants to buy two banks, both of which are planning to withdraw from Hungary, CEO Sándor Csányi told news radio Inforádió on Monday. In one case negotiations are in the final stage and OTP has made an official written offer. Csányi said OTP also plans to make certain investments…
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19 May 2013
Jaap Scholten, a Dutch writer and journalist, moved to Hungary in 2003. His book Comrade Baron. A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy is his first work of non-fiction and traces the lives of members of the Transylvanian aristocracy before and after March 1949, when the collectivisation of agriculture under the new…
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19 May 2013
Fashionistas and art-lovers can enjoy tasteful and extravagant pictures in the newly opened Fashion Photographers Exhibition at the X6 Gallery in downtown Budapest. Held in the lobby of Roosevelt 7/8 Office Building, the gallery features photographs from world-famous artists such as Bence Bakonyi, Youssef Nabil and Jacques Olivar. X6 Gallery has just opened its doors…
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18 May 2013
The Hungarian state has been ordered to pay EUR 17,000 in damages and costs to a former civil servant who sued at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over a punitive tax on severance pay for public sector workers. The state was found to have violated the rights of plaintiff Ms N.K.M. to…
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18 May 2013
The Hungarian postal service, Magyar Posta, had nothing to do with a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Azerbaijan’s strongman leader Heydar Aliyev, the National Development Ministry said on Monday. The denial came after local news websites had picked up Azeri media reports that the late Aliyev had been made the subject…
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18 May 2013
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18 May 2013
Venice in the late 1500s is a powerful republic, a ubiquitous commercial and political actor in the Mediterranean despite long wars with the Ottoman Empire. But at home discontent rumbles as poor weather causes harvest failures, famine, disease and soaring unemployment. Matteo, master mason and one of the early protagonists in Alessandro Barbero’s work of…
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18 May 2013
Hungary’s favourite foreign band Depeche Mode will take the stage at Puskás Ferenc Stadium on Tuesday 21 May at 8pm as a part of their Delta Machine Tour. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher spent most of last year working on their latest studio album Delta Machine and are now looking forward to getting…
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18 May 2013
It’s very likely a drastic simplification to reduce Mexican cuisine to the burrito. Still, in the world of culinary exports simplification goes a long way and that’s probably the thinking behind Burrita, a fairly new outfit that adds to the already good number of joints catering to office workers and tourists in District V. It…
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17 May 2013
State tobacco monopoly Nemzeti Dohánykereskedelmi Nonprofit Zrt (NDN) announced on Tuesday it is reopening bids for retail concessions ahead of the introduction of a revamped sales system this 1 July. Under the monopoly 20-year concessions will be granted for a flat fee to some 5,400 tobacco kiosks, which is one per 2,000 inhabitants and down…
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17 May 2013
A 37-year-old Hungarian who severed his forearm when cleaning a winnowing mill at his workplace in Purbach, Austria, on Saturday said he used his left hand to pick up his right hand and threw it in the car boot before driving about 20 kilometres to hospital in Eisenstadt. He was taken by helicopter to Vienna…
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