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Crises and emotions

The wounds dividing Hungarian society have grown deeper over the past 16 years, with no sign of their healing. Does this mean that the regime
pathetic post-Kadar rhetoric, trying to obscure the parlous state of the country's economy. The other factor was the way that
... regime continued to rule in the government offices and the factories. As chairman of the Free Democrats, Janos Kis said: "We were the
... opposition, and now we are the government's opposition." He was trying to put an end to his supporters' dangerous

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Looking for new orientation?

commonplaces. If this is the intellectual level of the MDF, then Orban has little to worry
so much attention: advisers give honest, self-critical assessments of the situation, leaving campaigning to one side. This report
... for the MDF's leadership, parts of which are now available to the public, is the exception that proves the rule. It is a collection of
... her own desires, or those of the leadership. First, a technical point: such documents tend to strike a pragmatic tone. "Let's leave

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Storm in City Hall: interview with Andras Bohm

two politicians broke down when the mayor reshuffled the Liberal group in the Assembly and chose new advisers. Since the local elections, their
consequences for mainstream politics. The problem is down to Gabor Demszky, the mayor of Budapest. It is because of him that the
... Demszky still not got over the fact that Nemeth stood against him in autumn 2002? It's not that simple. You have to bear in mind that
... cycle, Nemeth led the MSZP group in the Assembly, and the coalition didn't work badly between 2002 and 2006. Demszky was able to work

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The majority is cutting out the branch from beneath them

Hungarian Roma are unwilling to get into arguments with the local authorities on whom they depend, prefering to put up with
© Fazekas István A 'refugee wage' is flowing from Baranya to Sweden, and several Roma have left home following the notorious
... is threatening. I can see it from individuals' stories as well: it is not good to be a Roma in Hungary. Was it easier for your
... today's Roma children? I was born in the village of Bedo, which is an unusual place in that Hungarians are a minority next to the

hvg.hu English version

László Tamás Papp

attempt to win back the sympathy of a Hungarian public traditionally keen on law and order. If the government wants to
... need to explain why the head of the Budapest Police, our Iron Prefect, went rusty that night, and who is ultimately responsible for
withheld and then released to the public within 24 hours following complaints. This time, police chief Peter Gergenyi's response
... against him by a parliamentary investigating committee has been hurriedly released to the public. The fact that our distinguished
... create and then abolish state secrets, changing classifications as if it were underwear, threatens to make a mockery of the entire

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Scandals at the Hungarian universities

Scandals surrounding the University of Cluj in Transylvania and the Slovakian government's decision to award development grants in a way
... can pull in Brussels and Strasbourg to defend the interests of the Hungarians of Slovakia and Romania, we have achieved
public opinion about aggressive Hungarianising tendencies, and with good reason. Once they had gained their own states after World War I, they swore
... safeguard all the rights of their minority peoples. Despite this, it emerged at the end of World War II that Benes had devised secret plans
.... Later, the Soviet Union exerted strong pressure on both Czechoslovakia and Romania to tone down their anti-Hungarian nationalism

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Police solutions

Peter Gergenyi's response to the committee investigating the TV headquarters siege has been published. He calls the committee members
'. Budapest's police chief claims the investigating committee sought only to prove a conclusion they had already reached. At the end of
..., "a spontaneous electoral rally," meaning the police had no legal means of putting an end to it. The investigating committee has
... the slogans chanted by the crowed, the gathering clearly fell under the law on public assembly, meaning it would have been possible to

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Mourning

A friend told me a story about a family heirloom, a watch, which was broken. He took it to a watchmaker, who exclaimed: "It's a Puskas
... reason? "At the end of the 1940s, watches like these were only likely to enter the country in a suitcase belonging to one
© Vörös Szilárd Everyone has a story to tell about Ferenc Puskas. My father's is one of silence. It was he that taught me
... caused by losing the 1954 World Cup final, a defeat we invariably expect the Hungarian team to avenge. Any Hungarian footballer with
... bit of talent has to live in the shadow of Hungary's 6:3 defeat of England the year before. Hungarian football today has a Puskas

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The Free Democrat party is on the wrong tack

Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, a senior Free Democrat, has condemned the direction his party is being led in by Gabor Kuncze, Gabor Demszky and Balint Magyar
has openly boasted of breaking the law by refusing to investigate complaints against the police. Someone who claims cynically that
... is that it is better to be in power than out of it. But this is a baseless fear: the government parties form a parliamentary majority
... the victim in a political game, and that it would be unfair to use him as a sacrificial lamb. They were worried that if the police

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But what comes next?

Non-residential property investment levels could hit new highs this year in Central and Eastern Europe, but the growth in speculative purchases could
"It was hard to persuade the locals to spend their money in shopping centres instead of corner shops and on the market,"
..., just as it did in the Iberian countries 20 years ago. Spain commanded a 2.5 percentage point yield premium when it joined the EU in 1986, compared
... a Munich investment fund explains: "The Bratislava office market is so small that supply could easily grow to twice the level of demand

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Police and protesters

building, where he was waiting to give an interview. Even now, you can only enter the former Stock Exchange Palace from the rear
What would you have done if you had been in the position of Peter Gergenyi, the Budapest police chief, if you had been subject
... political attacks? Probably just what he did. Gergenyi was an experienced police chief who learned to deal with crises alongside his
... underreacted to the TV siege, but overreacted a month later. On 17 September, ill-prepared policemen encountered an increasingly angry

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Gergenyis farewell

In Hungary, it is customary to pity those who resign or are pushed, and this sympathy often obscures the true reasons for a senior
September and October. He is personally responsible for the failure to protect the television headquarters on 18 September and for the
... and what he was talking about. We can only hope that Gergenyi's retirement will also bring an end to a certain kind of police
...-proclaimed zero tolerance policing. But the main problem stems for the political environment. Police chiefs have to be more sensitive

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Belfast and Budapest

The implacable hatred held by both left and right for the other side in Hungarian politics can only be compared to that which rages
Frustrated Hungarian intellectuals have throughout the 20th century often been prone to looking to foreign countries for
... East'. He proposed a United States of the Danube to solve the country's nationalities problem, granting cantons to the
..., Romanians, Slovaks and Ruthenes. A lack of enthusiasm on the part of those same nationalities led to the plan's demise, but in the

MTI Világ

Alonso Schumacher szomszédja lesz Svájcban

Az idény végén visszavonult Michael Schumacherhez hasonlóan a Genfi- partján vásárolt magának ingatlant Fernando Alonso, a Forma-1
autóversenyző, aki a festői szépségű Genfi- mellett döntött. A három ház egyébként 16 kilométeres körzeten belül található.

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Many, but small

Police have received a wave of applications to hold demonstrations on the 50th anniversary of the crushing of the 1956 revolution
Three organisations have applied to hold demonstrations on Szabadsag ter, and applications have also been received to use
... would require permission from a city council committee, under the terms of a new city law. The World Alliance of Hungarians also wants
... streets on 4 November, though Budapest Police has rejected their application to use Kossuth ter. Peter Gergenyi, Budapest's police

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We insist

Are the police allowed to gather information about rioters in Budapest from hospital lists of the injured? Civil rights activists are
After the 23 October street riots, the police asked Budapest's hospitals to provide information about anybody they had treated during
.... The police clearly intended to interview some of the injured as witnesses in the hope that they might later be identified as rioters
... photographic and video evidence. But it is not clear that the police have the right to ask for information about patients. Adam

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