Breaching the Great Wall of Europe
Several thousand from China alone are expected to apply for legal residency under a fast-track scheme where the necessary papers
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Author: Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times
Hungary: Massive VAT fraud over Slovak border
The number of lorries entering Hungary from Slovakia has fallen by 25 per cent during the three months since customs
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Steep jump in taxi fares in Budapest
“Wanna split a cab?” could become a more popular end-of-evening question when new regulations stipulating minimum fares come into force
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Hungary: Never failing to surprise
The European Commission should release Hungary from its Excessive Deficit Procedure this year, provided it looks “only at the figures”,
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Hungary’s PM Orban again sets sights on utilities firms, ‘powerful friends’
The government needs the people to help defeat foreign-owned utilities firms that want to scotch a plan to lower bills,
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Hungary: The devil in the details
There has been a barrage of English-language communications from the government since this case put Hungary back on the news
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Balkan offensive
Romanian, Bulgarian officials unimpressed as UK newspapers make fun of government brainwave to put off would-be immigrants Recent weeks have
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Goodbye Lenin: Part II
Budapest has already seen dozens of public places – notably Moszkva tér (Moscow Square) – renamed to eradicate any trace
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States of denial
Backgrounder: Repatriation and release of jailed Azeri murderer threatens to reignite frozen conflict, raises questions of Hungarian realpolitik Hungary’s government
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