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Stevie Wonder tíz év után új lemezzel jelentkezett

A rhythm and blues, a pop és a rock egyik állócsillagának tíz év szünet után jelent meg Time to Love című
hurrikán több tízezer áldozatának és károsultjának ajánlotta. A Time to Love a kritika szerint az év egyik legnagyobb visszatérése

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Opinion

this visit? And even we old men only remember that Brandt unexpectedly fell to his knees before the Warsaw Ghetto memorial. It wasn't a
his reaction. He withdrew wordlessly for a few minutes, then, apologising to his small audience, he visibly struggled to
..., months, years n the future. I'm no longer familiar enough with the situation back home to say whether these tears would have met the
... there. I hope so. But I know that here one doesn't have to be Jewish to understand the significance of such a moment. This

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Magyar Telekom and T-Mobile

Though the Economic Competition Office has no objections to a merger between Magyar Telekom and its mobile subsidiary, competitors
HUF263b last year, and a 45.29% share of a market with more than 9m subscribers. Magyar Telekom's decision to merge with its subsidiary
... to the deal, and Magyar Telekom owns T-Mobile outright. Since there will be no change in ownership, there is little prospect of the
... be passed on to its legal successor. The state holds a golden share in Magyar Telekom, but the Ministry for IT and Telecommunications

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Dreams of the city

provinces are coming to the fore. Seven cities are competing for the title of 2010 European Capital of Culture. The government is set
misled. Several of the 11 original bidders misunderstood what was expected of them if they wanted to hold the title in 2010 alongside
... to town for a year. It's...an exhibition of European values," says Wolfgang Lorenz, who was in charge of Graz's cultural capital
.... The aim is to promote developments and programmes that will affect the region in the long-term. That's why Brussels is so keen that

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New beginning

appointment of Bihari, who once taught numerous opposition politicians, will bring an end to the stalemate over future court
Bihari is not the most senior judge, and nor is he the most popular candidate, but he is now certain to to succeed András
... be settling in in the Sándor Palace by now if the Socialists had followed the popular left wing of their party in proposing him as an alternative
... Katalin Szili. His six years on the Constitutional Court have been characterised by a willingness to find compromises between two

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"Third way" platform

There will be a new party to vote for come 2006. The Hungarian Truth and Life Party (MIÉP), the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik
"We've nothing to with them. We never did and we never will." This was MIÉP's view of the Jobbik in June 4 press release. But things
... Jobbik was composed mainly of MIÉP deserters. So there have been skirmishes aplenty over recent years. Csurka applied his favourite soubriquet
...-MIÉP figure was merely an "agent of the Jobbik." The Jobbik were much more cautious - their concerns mostly related to Csurka's

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Opinion

"Businessmen should stick to business," said Viktor Orban at a village party meeting, and though he didn't say it explicitly, the second
... taking part in public affairs. Which begs the question: who is suited to run the
from time to time by professional soldiers. After the regime change of 1989 there came a museum curator, hospitality industry experts
.... It's true that Ferenc Gyurcsny came to power not via direct election but following a party putsch. So whilst his position is
..., there is no legal question over his legitimacy. Now let's come back to Orbn's statement. If I understand rightly, certain businessmen

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Interview

Hungary's government recently increased its budget deficit targets for 2006 and beyond, after the EU required
Hungary's government recently increased its budget deficit targets for 2006 and beyond, after the EU required to include government
... highway constructions. How realistic is the original plan to introduce the euro in 2010? Any chance of meeting that target date has
... and the next set on to avoid appearing the laggard in a regional context. 2012 could be realistic - we expect Hungary narrowly

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Unconstitutional?

It will be left to the next parliament to modify the agents' law it voted for in May, after the Constitutional Court ruled
If things go on as before, then we can expect the names of plenty of former agents to be leaked in coming weeks. By now we know
... question of former informers and agents comes into public view, new information is unearthed and given to the press. When the current
... written by Károly Szita, the Fidesz mayor of Kaposvár, were revealed to the public. (Szita continues to deny the

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Opinion

government taking the place of our current left-wing party - people are once again pointing to the parallels. It began in 1993, when a
József Antall, the first Prime Minister. It's fair to say that the Polish Democratic Left Alliance (DLA), which has just left office
... elections. But looking at the reasons for the DLA's fall, Hungarian observers are more likely to be reminded of the Fidesz
... proven. Of course, in Poland, sleaze started to speak for itself, driving the party's own supporters away. And here there is no obvious

MTI Gazdaság

Az OMV átveszi a csehországi Aral-láncot

Az osztrák OMV olajtársaság veszi át a brit BP tulajdonában lévő Aral 69 benzinkútját Csehországban – olvasható a cseh Mlada
a 3-4 milliárd koronára (121 millió dollár) becsült Aral-érdekeltség megszerzése iránt, de a Royal Dutch Shell és az olasz Agip is
... a benzinkutakra. Az Aral januárban jelentette be, hogy az év vége felé szeretné tető alá hozni az üzletet. A vállalat megválik

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Shoddy workmanship

"Building a home is an art," says one of the leading property investors. And it would seem to be a popular art form, given that there
... so many new homes to choose from on the market. An estimated 10-11,000 apartments are on sale in Budapest. But with growing supply
It's almost impossible to sell a new flat nowadays without good marketing. Gone are the days when flats would be snapped up before they
... cowboy contractors, he says, who lack the experience to build to a high standard. "I can hardly believe some of the
... a client who bought a flat, only to have the plaster fall down from the ceiling after four months. Other complaints include imitation

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Much ado

Most Hungarians oppose renationalisation of privatised companies, but they are even more set against further privatisation, according to
Between 1991 and 1995, the proportion of the population which thought it acceptable for major state companies to fall into (foreign
... declined significantly. Belief in markets determining wage rates and in the right to fire less enthusiastic workers also fell sharply
... companies are most likely to lose their jobs (even though this risk factor is counterbalanced by higher pay at foreign-owned firms

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Chairman of Freedom House

Peter Ackerman expects Freedom House's latest report on the state of civil liberties in America to be heavily criticised. The
HVG: Freedom House has been assessing the state of democracy and civil liberties around the world for 33 years. You give grades from 1
... of the press, of religion, the independence of the courts, whether civil rights are guaranteed. We commission regional experts to work
... against there low grade. That's great! It means they're paying us attention...We're never going to have everyone satisfied with our

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LÁSZLÓ TAMÁS PAPP

Viktor Orbán giving government commissions to Fidesz companies that helped out in the
Anyone who took that campaign seriously has had plenty of reasons to be disappointed. Most recently, the Sawyer Miller Group got a
... from City Hall to do PR work for the fourth metro project. Sawyer Miller is running the re-election campaign for Gábor Demszky, the
... mayor of Budapest. The whole story seems to be a standard "party-linked" kind of affair. But it's more serious than that. Left

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Excise tax polemic

Cutting sales tax on fuel brings no benefits to haulage companies, who can in any case reclaim it, and even though their proposals for
... prices could be popular, the Finance Ministry sees no way of replacing the billions that would be lost to the
Unlike most drivers, hauliers had no reason to be happy about the cuts in fuel VAT announced in October. "It improves our cash-flow at
... price of a liter of fuel for the normal driver, brings no benefits to haulage companies, because they can reclaim the VAT they pay on
... VAT cut makes hauliers negotiating position even weaker - they would like to see a cut in excise tax, which they cannot reclaim

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Az afrikai gyilkos tavak ismét ölni készülnek

Az erőfeszítések, hogy megelőzzék két afrikai felett gyilkos mérgesgázfelhők kialakulását a jelek szerint kudarcba fullad, s ezrek
vezettek le a Nyos aljára 2001-ben és egy másikat a Monoun tóba 2003-ban, amivel elvileg a gázkoncentráció veszélytelen

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Sacred Cows

Typically, you prop up drunks. And Hungarians in neighbouring countries. Drunks normally get to lean on their slightly more sober
But Hungarians abroad get help from their mother country, supposedly to keep them in their place of birth, and to boost
.... So many federations, committees, offices, departments, foundations, boards, funds, so many tenders, and now there's to be a special ID
...! How much we have to spend in Hungary to make sure there's enough cash over there... A presenter on public TV was

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What has not worked for four years

The budget is the problem. Eurostat is nor certain to say no to our peculiarly Hungarian approach to financing
... if we do manage to stick to a budget deficit of Ft1022bn this year, it will mean a budget deficit of 6-6.2% of GDP, using
will be able to do nothing to bring down expenditures. We can't even argue that the economy has been on a deficit-cutting
... spending got out of control, especially after the first round of voting. It was Péter Medgyessy's mistake to carry on running the shop
..., since it cut state investment instead of consumption. In summer 2003, the Free Democrats called for tax cuts, which led to an increase

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