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Hungarian elections: Right right out in front as left left standing

March 23, 2014 The Budapest Times Hungary

The ruling centre-right Fidesz party has a good chance of winning a second consecutive two-thirds majority at the parliamentary election

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Yad Vashem marks 70 years since the destruction of Hungarian Jewry

March 19, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Institute in Jerusalem, hosted on March 19 2014 a march of remembrance with dozens

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Hungarian far-right Jobbik party dismisses Romania’s entry ban

March 19, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Hungary, Romania

The far-right and ultra-nationalist Hungarian party Jobbik will not accept the ban imposed by the Romanian government on two of

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Romania bans four Hungarian extremists from entering country

March 18, 2014March 18, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Hungary, Romania

The Romanian government named on March 17 four Hungarian far-right militants that they banned from entering the country after violent

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Turmoil in Ukraine brings ammunition to Hungary’s election campaign

March 16, 2014 The Budapest Times Hungary, Ukraine

Over the past few weeks, the political upheaval in Ukraine has directed Hungary’s attention toward Kyiv and increasingly toward the

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Ukraine’s immediate neighbours express deep concern over Crimea crisis

March 2, 2014March 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Apart from Russia, six countries border Ukraine – and as the crisis deepened with Russian military involvement, most expressed deep

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Bomb threat, clashes at far-right ‘day of honour’ rally in Hungary

February 16, 2014February 16, 2014 The Budapest Times Hungary

A bomb scare forced hundreds of extreme right-wing demonstrators to relocate their “day of honour” ceremonies from Clark Ádám tér

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Calls to bar Hungarian extreme-right Jobbik party from holding political rally in former synagogue

February 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary

Efforts are underway to prevent Hungarian extreme-right and anti-Semitic party Jobbikto hold next week a political assembly in a building

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Hungary plans single-digit flat tax rate

January 21, 2014 The Budapest Times Hungary

One of the most controversial economic issues in Hungary is back in the public attention: the uniform income tax rate,

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