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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23 May 2013
Australia is closing its embassy in Budapest, the antipodean island’s Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, said on Monday. With Canberra jumping on the developed world’s fiscal austerity bandwagon there will be cutbacks in foreign affairs spending. “The most significant one is closing one embassy, that’s the embassy in Budapest,” Carr told ABC radio on Monday. The…
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23 May 2013
Thirteen Jewish organisations sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urging him “to keep the issue of intolerance and discrimination squarely on the US-Hungarian bilateral agenda”. The letter commended Kerry for the release of a Human Rights Report in 2012 that highlighted an increase in xenophobia and antisemitism in Hungary.…
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22 May 2013
The last Sunday in May is Children’s Day here 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 a Chocolate Festival 25-26 May to celebrate your household chocolate thieves, with lots of games, chocolate rewards, and concerts for…
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22 May 2013
Thirty Belgian breweries! Fifty beers on tap! One hundred and forty kinds of beer! No, it’s not the third Buda Castle Beer Festival (that’s in mid-June and they’ll have some 200 beers), it’s the smaller but much more potent Fourth Belgian Beer Festival, which pitches its tent at Vajdahunyad Castle in City Park starting next…
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22 May 2013
The railway journey from Budapest to Belgrade is set to be faster, according to a letter of intent inked in the Serbian capital by state railway firm MÁV’s director Ilona Varga last Friday. The agreement, also signed by Serbian Railways boss Dragoljub Simonovic, calls for an upgrade to the 380 kilometres of track between the…
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22 May 2013
National Development Ministry state secretary Pál Völner revealed on Tuesday more details of the extra fares for travelling on express trains (gyorsvonat and sebesvonat). People aged under six and over 65 years of age, who are otherwise entitled to free rail travel, will only be able to use such trains if they buy a monthly…
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21 May 2013
It is time to bring out your inner Sherlock Holmes as Budapest’s very own Murder Mystery event takes place this Sunday. aKERT and Krimieste.hu will be hosting the event in and around the Horvath-kert park from 10:00am to 20:00pm. view full post »
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