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Laszlo Lengyel: a third nationalist wave?

In countries that have experienced regime changes, an economic crisis could give birth to a third wave of nationalism. The middle classes could find themselves facing an existential threat. People who were winners until now will lose out.

szerző hvg.hu idő 2009. január 08., csütörtök, 11:08

Hungary, 500 top companies

After the stabilisation package, before the recession: Hungary's 500 largest companies were only barely able to grow above the rate of inflation in 2007, according to a survey by HVG and Creditreform.

szerző hvg.hu idő 2009. január 08., csütörtök, 10:10

The crisis was caused by human deficiencies

The politician was talking at a meeting held in memory of St Thomas Becket, at which Rene Roudaut, the French ambassador, the historian Miklos Kun and Zsolt Becsey, a Fidesz MEP contributed to a discussion of "Christian values and Europe".

szerző hvg.hu idő 2009. január 06., kedd, 16:00

"I hope Terezvaros's law enforcement authorities will start investigating"

Zoltan Illes, head of Fidesz's Terezvaros branch, and a professor in the environmental protection department at the Central European University, has brought a private prosecution against Terezvaros district council.

idő 2009. január 06., kedd, 14:50

A Budapest Olympics

No serious leader can take seriously the idea of Budapest holding the 2020 Olympics: given Hungary's budget and global financial conditions, it would simply be an impossibly expensive prestige investment.

idő 2009. január 05., hétfő, 17:06

Peter Hack's route out of the chaos

The last two presidents had good reason for doing what many are now demanding of Laszlo Solyom. They agreed with the leaders of the various parliamentary parties on candidates for nomination to state offices.

idő 2008. december 16., kedd, 14:55

Solving the Hungarian-Slovak conflict abroad

Hungarian-Slovak relations could be rebuilt from the ground up, but for as long as the Magyar Garda acts as cultural attache to our northern neighbours, and as long as Robert Fico and Jan Slota form our picture of the Slovaks and their thinking, then results are going...

szerző hvg.hu idő 2008. december 16., kedd, 14:30

Vanished French student was unaccompanied

A French student who disappeared this week was captured on security cameras along her route to the Lanchid, the daily Nepszava has reported. The recordings show that she was alone along her entire route - nobody was following her and nobody tried to approach her.

szerző hvg.hu idő 2008. december 15., hétfő, 17:11

The NBH worried more about Bacsfi than about kuruc.info

For three years, the National Security Office's (NBH) official yearbooks said not a single word about far right groups, even though there was a time when both far right and anti-democratic left-wing groups had their place in the NBH's publications.

idő 2008. december 15., hétfő, 16:46

Corruption in the Jewish Quarter

Two years ago Laszlo Hoffmann, legal representative of the Protection Group (Ovas) made a complaint to prosecutors about illegal building privatisations in the Jewish Quarter.

szerző hvg.hu idő 2008. december 09., kedd, 12:43

Simor: without reforms the country will fall behind

Andras Simor, governor of the Hungarian central bank told the Association of Employers and Manufacturers (MGYOSZ) that the current crisis was creating an opportunity for the country to confront its mistakes.

szerző hvg.hu/MTI idő 2008. december 04., csütörtök, 13:33

Pirates to buy government debt?

Pirates of the world, unite! Somalia isn't your true haven, and Citigroup isn't the big deal - Hungary is! Hungarian 'pirates' want to buy Hungary, and Hungarian debt.

szerző hvg.hu idő 2008. december 04., csütörtök, 11:57

Peter Tasnadi: The media says everything's going wrong

"When I applied to places, I used to say that I'm not Peter Tasnadi, but not *that* Peter Tasnadi," says the 52-year-old mayor of Pecs when discussing his approach to building relationships.

idő 2008. december 03., szerda, 15:10

The golden age is over in the financial sector

Finance players make money both when things are going badly and when they are going well. But the crisis has brought an end to abundant money, and many believe that the golden age will never return. But what is in store for the financial services sector?

idő 2008. december 02., kedd, 14:30

The beginnings of a civil campaign

Some 50 Hungarian, Slovak and Slovak-Hungarian intellectuals met in Bratislava on Friday evening. They discussed a kind of campaign whose aim would be to say: "Can't we just behave normally?" What did they conclude?

szerző Nagy Gergely (hvg.hu) idő 2008. november 26., szerda, 15:10

Cuts after the rescue package

Hungary needed a global crisis to commit itself to taking serious steps towards meeting the requirements for euro membership. Under better global economic conditions, this could have been achieved with far fewer sacrifices.

szerző hvg.hu/labourmobility.com idő 2008. november 07., péntek, 11:42

Laszlo Lengyel: Gyurcsany's virtual world

Ferenc Gyurcsany wanted to save the country long before he knew what was wrong. He was write to withdraw the budget and the new tax laws, though the decision came too late. But from that point on he should have focused on technical decisions, not on making statements.

idő 2008. október 17., péntek, 16:30

The summit of pointlessness?

It's easy enough to predict that Ferenc Gyurcsany announce serious spending cuts at Saturday's National Summit, citing the "crisis" as a reason, and it's just as predictable that the opposition will, citing that same crisis, dismiss all his proposals.

idő 2008. október 15., szerda, 13:52

MDF campaign: a CD, but no manifestos?

People are describing the MDF bugging affair as the biggest scandal in Hungary since the regime change, and there have been calls for a parliamentary commission of inquiry to be established to investigate the affair.

idő 2008. szeptember 29., hétfő, 17:15

Will a Kadar-era military judge become the president of the court?

A former military judge of the Kadar regime may become president of the supreme court if a successor to Zoltan Lomnici is not elected next month. Colonel Kaposvari found Gabor Rimner and his associates guilty of spying in 1981.

szerző Hirschler Richárd (hvg.hu) idő 2008. május 20., kedd, 13:19

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