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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17 May 2013
Budapest’s second edition of the Hay Festival opens this Friday with novelists, poets, politicians, architects, mathematicians and musicians gathering for five days of conversation, concerts, literary walks, poetry, wine tastings and film screenings under the motto “Imagine the World”. From Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh town that Hay Festival Budapest president Paul Greatbatch describes as being home…
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17 May 2013
Women will rule the roost at Jazz Spring in the Palace of Arts this Friday and Saturday. The event opens with American tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen and her quartet. This astonishing musician, who was born in Tel Aviv and now lives and works in New York, is not only a virtuoso saxophonist but also creates…
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17 May 2013
Some 40 films, round-table discussions and concerts will be in the focus of the Fourth International Romani Film Festival at Budapest’s Örökmozgó cinema this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The festival aims to present Hungarian and European Roma culture, as well as to depict the situation of the Roma minority in Hungary and aid conversation between…
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17 May 2013
Hungary’s finest is souring faces as the annual Budapest Pálinka Festival kicked off on Thursday. Pride of place goes to sour cherry pálinka this time round, with 400 spirits from 25 distilleries available to taste (in terms of taste pálinka offers an excellent value, as you will not be able to get the flavour out…
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17 May 2013
Military fatigues, swords, music and traditions are on display this weekend at District VIII’s Orczy Park with the Ludovika Battalion of the Hungarian Defence Forces playing host to the fourth Ludovika Festival. Organisers promise entertainment for all the family, from the smallest to the oldest during the free two-day event. Things begin at 10am this…
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