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Sat, 18 May 2013 06:17:56 CDT Why is it that Europe stigmatises modern Hungary? - Politics.hu Why is it that Europe stigmatises modern Hungary? Politics.hu They do not want to understand – not due to a lack of intellectual aptitude, but due to lack of willingness. They do not want to understand, because they seem to think that it has nothing to do with them, that our concerns are not their concerns ... and more »

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:56:56 CDT European fascism: A movement grows in Hungary - Boston Globe Boston Globe European fascism: A movement grows in Hungary Boston Globe As the clouds over the European economy get headlines on business pages, the social unease spreading through the continent provides more troubling news. In France, Switzerland, and Austria, right-wing parties known for racist and nationalist platforms ... Jobbik says Hungary should focus on opening to eastern markets over EU ...Politics.hu Hungarian church seeks to defrock pastor after wife's anti-Semitic speechJNS.org Use subsidies as icing on the cake, not key ingredientBudapest Times all 7 news articles »

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:04:28 CDT Hungarian church seeks to defrock pastor after wife's anti-Semitic speech - JNS.org Boston Globe Hungarian church seeks to defrock pastor after wife's anti-Semitic speech JNS.org (JNS.org) The Hungarian Reformed Church is trying to defrock Lorant Hegedus, a Protestant pastor, for participating in a radical right-wing rally during which his wife had given a speech denouncing Jews and Israel. Click photo to download. Caption: The ... European fascism: A movement grows in HungaryBoston Globe Demands for apology from European Parliament President Schulz over charges ...Politics.hu Use subsidies as icing on the cake, not key ingredientBudapest Times all 7 news articles »

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:11:41 CDT Nicholville's St. Therese Church hosting Hungarian Festival Sunday - North Country Now Nicholville's St. Therese Church hosting Hungarian Festival Sunday North Country Now NICHOLVILLE -- St. Therese Church, 68 County Route 55, will host a Hungarian Festival Sunday, May 19 with music, arts, food and dancing. The Church's Fiat group has proposed the festival as a way to highlight Catholic culture in different countries ...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:50:31 CDT Smithsonian Welcomes Hungary to the 2013 Folklife Festival - Newswise - Newswise (press release) Smithsonian Welcomes Hungary to the 2013 Folklife Festival - Newswise Newswise (press release) Newswise — This summer, visitors to the 47th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival will experience the vitality and living traditions that define and sustain Hungary's unique culture. “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” will feature more than 100 ... and more »

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:59:55 CDT Hungarian mobile payment system on schedule despite financing setback - Mobile Payments Today Hungarian mobile payment system on schedule despite financing setback Mobile Payments Today Budapest Business Journal is reporting the national mobile payment system for Hungary will launch on time this fall despite issues over loans meant to pay for developing the network. The system, announced earlier this year, is run by state-owned ... and more »

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:27 CDT Hungary must step-up antisemitism fight: WJC - Canadian Jewish News Canadian Jewish News Hungary must step-up antisemitism fight: WJC Canadian Jewish News Based on what they saw and heard from Hungarian officials, Jewish Hungarians and Roma Hungarians (pejoratively known as Gypsies), members of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) say there is an urgent need to stem the tide of antisemitism ...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:25:25 CDT Hungarian Jailbird Strolls Out of German Prison in Heartwarming True Crime Story - Pestiside Pestiside Hungarian Jailbird Strolls Out of German Prison in Heartwarming True Crime Story Pestiside A 32-year-old Hungarian man being held in a jail in the German city of Dresden made headlines yesterday by switching places with his cellmate, who was about to be freed, and then calmly walking out the front door to freedom. The as-yet-unidentified ... and more »

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:16:49 CDT Rob Huff column: I want to follow on from WTCC 2013 Hungary win in Sazburg - The Sun The Sun Rob Huff column: I want to follow on from WTCC 2013 Hungary win in Sazburg The Sun This weekend could be a bit deflating after I composed a glorious symphony in Hungary, where I won my maiden race in the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship. I refer to the results in Hungary as a 'symphony' because we're in Salzburg, Austria ... Rob Huff fears it could be tough in AustriaCambridge News Salzburgring: The form bookcrash.net FIA WTCC Newsletter 20PaddockTalk all 6 news articles »

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:23 CDT Soccer-Hungarian championship results and standings May 17 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Hungarian championship matches on Friday Friday, May 17 Paks 1 Debrecen 2 Szombathelyi Haladas 2 Papa 1 Standings P W D L F A Pts C1 Gyor ETO 27 17 7 3 53 29 58 -------------------------2 Fehervar 27 14 6 7 44 20 48 3 MTK Hungaria 27 14 6 7 40 26 48 -------------------------4 Debrecen 28 14 4 10 44 30 46 -------------------------5 ...

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Sat, 18 May 2013 05:02:00 GMT Budapest Pálinka Festival, Erzsébet Square, 16 - 19 May Sour-cherry is in focus at this year's festival, and so pálinkas and other local delicacies made of this fine Hungarian fruit will play a starring role between May 16 - 19. Once again held in downtown Szabadsag square, with over 400 spirits available for tasting from 25 exhibitors. The Pálinka of the Year (a blend of the finest local spirits) will be available for tasting for the first time. Read on for more info about the spirited entertainment in 2013.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Hay Festival Budapest Program: 19 - 21 May On 19 May, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday, there will also be a wide variety of programmes at Hay Festival Budapest for the culture-loving audience. György Dragomán hosts a wine-tasting event and a free poetic walk. The festival’s guests will be the prominent Australian feminist author Germaine Greer and Jaap Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest, and the British Peter Florence, founder and director of Hay Festival, talks to Péter Esterházy.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Whitsun Festivities At Skanzen, Szentendre, Hungary, 19 - 20 May On 19th and 20th of May we will celebrate the Whitsun in a international circle. India will be our special guest beside the 13 Hungarian communities. The exotic country makes its debut with the traditional masked dance first in Europe, and gives a foretaste of the Indian culture. Traditionalist communities will revive Hungarian traditions of Whitsun and Hungarian heritage elements settle in the museum's houses.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Slam Poetry & Music Programmes In Akvárium, At Hay Festival Budapest The pop music series of programmes of the 2013 Hay Festival Budapest starts with the Minneapolis band Dark Dark Dark in Akvárium Klub on 17 May, Friday, 9:30 PM. On Saturday 9 PM Péter Závada, Márton Simon, István Pion and Mátyás Sirokai will be accompanied by Amoeba Band, and on Sunday 9:30 PM the Finnish band French Films will be introduced to the Hungarian audience.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Children's Programmes At Hay Festival In Budapest Hay Festival was founded in Hay-on-Wye 25 years ago, and it has grown into one of the most significant cultural series of events in the world, with eleven festivals across five continents. On 18 May, Saturday, 9:30 AM, children will be entertained by Petra Finy and Réka Farkasházi and her band in the Central European University.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Women At Hay Festival In Budapest Until 21 May, the Hungarian audience will have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the Hay Festival, in Petőfi Museum of Literature, the Central European University (CEU), and Akvárium Klub. The event will have such participants as one of the most significant American novelists, Nicole Krauss, Marta del Riego, feature editor of Vanity Fair, architect Odile Decq, and the Australian feminist author, Germaine Greer.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Kafka And Son Is Coming To Budapest On 18 May At the age of 36 Franz Kafka was still living at home, a petty bureaucrat, a failed artist and timid Jewish son. Ruling and ruining his life was his overbearing father, Hermann. What to do? Kafka wrote, in this case a 50 page letter to his father in which he reveals deep connections between his life and his fiction. As he confesses in the letter “All my writing was about you.” Adapted from this monumental (and undelivered) letter, Kafka and Son is a blistering, often hilarious, dissection of domestic authority, and a revelatory visit with one of the architects of the modern psyche.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT Monthly Midweek Programme At Anglican Episcopal Church In Budapest, 21 May Join in our monthly midweek programme of supper, discussion and prayer on Tuesday, May 21, 6:00 – 8:00pm, as we welcome the Rev. Dr. Richard Otterness as our guest presenter.

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT Pagony Gourmet Offers In May Since we established Pagony Közért we took great pride on our ability to bring to our clients special gourmet products from around the world:

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT Xpat Event Report: Fifth Intact Academy Salon - The Happy Nomad Close to 40 people attended Intact’s coaching and supervision Salon, 8th May. On this fifth Salon Drs. Sari van Poelje, managing director of Intact, gave a presentation on “The Happy Nomad”. As usual, the audience was invited to participate in role-playing exercises facilitated by a few of senior Intact coaches.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Monetary Council Solid On Rate Cuts In Hungary Monetary Council members voted unanimously to reduce the base rate for the ninth consecutive month by 25 basis points to 4.75% at the April 23 meeting, according to the minutes released yesterday.

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:02:00 GMT Out Of Technical Recession: Hungary’s GDP Grew By 0.7 In The First Quarter In line with Government expectations – and according to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) – the Hungarian economy expanded by 0.7 percent compared to the previous quarter.

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Hungary's Fidesz Alleges Business Interests Behind EU Concerns The EU’s expressed concerns about Hungary’s constitutional system have nothing to do with democracy, but are a response to the cuts in utility fees, Fidesz caucus leader Antal Rogan told reporters.

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT Hungary April Inflation Rate Plunges In Support of Rate Easing "Hungary’s inflation rate dropped to the lowest in almost 39 years, bolstering the case for policy makers to cut record-low interest rates further. Consumer prices rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier in April, the slowest since June 1974, after a 2.2 percent increase the previous month, the statistics office in Budapest said."

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Fiscal Measures Available In Hungary To Ensure Lifting Of Excessive Deficit Procedure During recent years, Hungary has moved from being one of the worst performing European countries to become one of the frontrunners of the EU, a result of the Government’s consistent economic policy, Government Spokesperson András Giró-Szász stated at a joint press conference on Friday. He emphasised that the Hungarian Government is convinced that the measures requested by the European Commission are unnecessary, as budget targets will be met without difficulty.

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT CEU Business School Budapest: From Technology Leader To Business Leader Jay Fogelman, director of the MSc in IT Management and senior lecturer of technology management at CEU Business School, answers questions about the eight-month long, 30 credit program that shapes tech savvy professionals into business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Xpat Opinion: 'End The Excessive Deficit Procedure', By Ferenc Kumin Presenting the EU Commission’s spring economic forecast on Friday, Olli Rehn, the EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro, announced that three countries – Romania, Lithuania and Latvia – are on track to exit the excessive deficit procedure (EDP), but that Hungary and Italy would need to do more to trim the budget deficit below three percent of GDP in 2013 and 2014.

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Invitation: CCCH 'Speed Business Meeting' , Budapest, 27 May The French-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the DEFH (Dirigeants et Entrepreneurs Francophones en Hongrie) and The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hungary and their cooperating partners, Belgian Business Club, British Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce,Irish Hungarian Business Circle, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, Joint Venture Association, Netherlands-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, Swisscham Hungary cordially invite you to the next 'Speed Business Meeting'

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Budapest Stock Exchange Turnover Churns Lower In April Turnover on the Budapest Stock Exchange was 10% lower in April than in March, the bourse announced yesterday. Turnover fell to Ft 168 billion for April, from Ft 188 billion in the same month of 2012, a daily average of Ft 8 billion.

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT Internationally Renowned Environmentalist ‘No Impact Man’ Colin Beavan Is Coming To Budapest New York author and environmental activist Colin Beavan will speak in the Central European University Auditorium, Nador Utca 9, 1051, Budapest, on Tuesday, May 14th, at 5 pm. This event is open to the public.

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