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Breaching the Great Wall of Europe

June 16, 2013June 18, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary

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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Hungary: Massive VAT fraud over Slovak border

May 14, 2013May 22, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary, Slovakia

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

April 21, 2013May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times 0 Comments Hungary

“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

April 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary

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’

March 29, 2013May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary

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

March 19, 2013May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary

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

February 10, 2013May 22, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times

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

November 27, 2012November 27, 2012 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times

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

September 10, 2012May 22, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times

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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