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: Tancsics Prize returned
Echo TV pundit Ferenc Szaniszló announced on Wednesday that he planned to hand back the Tancsics Prize, a top state
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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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EU concern at Hungary’s approval of package of constitutional amendments
The amendments to the Hungarian constitution approved by parliament in Budapest on March 11 2013 “raise concerns with respect to
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Trojan Horse: tainted meat in beef lasagne in Hungary
Hungary was the latest member of the European Union to admit to prepared beef dishes tainted with horsemeat on Monday
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South Stream Hungarian pipeline approval a ‘long-term benefit’
Following the final investment decision being approved for the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia, deputy chairman of the Gazprom
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Hungarian government signals end to IMF deadlock
The government looked set this week to capitulate over controversial legislation that is blocking the commencement of formal negotiations for
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Romania threatens to make Hungarian House Speaker persona non grata
Parliament Speaker László Kövér left for Romania on Tuesday to campaign for an ethnic Hungarian party despite already soured relations
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Freedom House: Hungary, Ukraine in democratic decline
A U.S.-based non-governmental organization advocating for democracy and human rights says Hungary and Ukraine are at the forefront of an
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