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hvg.hu English version

The gaffes of the right wing media

What makes right-wing journalists attempt to rehabilitate elements of the traditional Arrow Cross and Nazi symbols and, by their
but wrong when he compared the activities of the portal's editors to those of the Socialist MP Janos Zuschlag, who joked about Jews
.... I have nothing to say in his favour, not least because further information has emerged in recent weeks about a range of phantom
... councillor in Budapest), they were nonetheless media professionals. The radio itself belongs to Simicska's Fidesz-linked media empire

hvg.hu English version

Hysteria and overreaction in the Magyar Garda affair

The anti-fascists' overreaction to Arrow Cross-inspired initiatives risk provoking a boomerang effect. An insignificant, peripheral
...-grouping has just been given billions of forints' worth of free advertising. To the hyperventilators we say keep calm! You'll achieve
The founding members of the Magyar Garda have sought protection from the President in response to Ferenc Gyurcsany's request that public
... a free-thinking liberal, I believe they have the right to express their views, however revolting they may be. Attempts at banning them
.... Rampaging storm troopers on the streets are apparently posing a real threat to the lives of peaceful Jews, Roma, gays and left-liberal

hvg.hu English version

Matyas Eorsi meets with Cuban opposition leaders

visited Cuba. There, he and some Estonian and Dutch MPs defied police threats to meet up with prominent opposition activists. He met
Mátyás Eörsi © Dudás Szabolcs hvg.hu: It must have been a risk to visit a police state as an unofficial tourist and seek
... opposition activists. M.E.: I assembled the Council of Europe's small delegation to make clear that human rights do not depend on
... police followed our movements closely, almost expelling our interpreter. They made clear to us that they were aware of our meetings and

hvg.hu English version

Szent-Ivanyi on Hungarian foreign policy's weaknesses

The Hungarian government has failed to come up with an up-to-date vision of the nation. It should have thought more
... according to Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, an MEP, foreign policy committee member and foreign affairs spokesperson for the Free Democrats
European democracies' common position condemning America's visa policy and for adopting its own line on visa-free access to the United
..., Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia - sent a joint declaration to Washington. Until that point, we had been members of this coalition
... the visa restrictions affecting our citizens to be lifted. I believe it would have been appropriate for us to continue our

hvg.hu English version

Portrait of Janos Szabo, the new rector of the National University of Defence Studies

"My father was an army officer for a short while before working for local government. He had high expectations. Children were not to
... eating and should not involve themselves in adults' conversations. I soon wanted to leave home," remembers the 54-year-old general and
education." Because of this, he ended up studying to be an aeroplane mechanic in Szolnok. He was not an aviation enthusiast, however
... months later I passed." He nonetheless asked to teach social sciences in place of technical subjects. He was permitted to
... Zrinyi Miklos Military Academy. After the regime change, he was sent to Brown University in America, after which he was named an

hvg.hu English version

Bribe the instructors, faked tests - a driving licence in two weeks

Fierce competition between driving schools have depressed prices - and this, not alleged corruption, has led to the poor driving skills
"It's very rare for a test to be clean. Most driving examiners expect some kind of a tip," claimed a provincial driving instructor who
... the past few years. A few years ago, it took an average of 1.6 driving tests to get a licence, while it now takes 1.85. Szorcsok claims
... fails has risen over the past three years because authorities are trying to keep up the difficulty level, while instructors are

hvg.hu English version

"The word 'buy' is not to my taste. Let's say we grow together."

Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, the 57-year-old chief executive of OMV, the Austrian oil company, is working to bring about a forced marriage
... Hungary's Mol and his company. He believes the capital markets want a cash payment, which amounts to a buy-out. He dismisses
HVG: I brought you an "I love Mol" sticker from a Hungarian filling station. Even the Vienna papers are reporting Hungarian calls to
... Austrian companies. Were you expecting your purchase of 8.6 per cent of Mol's shares to kick up such a storm in Hungary? W.R.: I
... storm has a role to play in European economic development. OMV itself is no longer an Austrian company. Most of our activities are

hvg.hu English version

Striking season

We should brace ourselves to expect more fraught salary negotiations from the autumn, especially in industries we all depend
These 'sensitive industries' are likely to suffer from lengthy strikes because workers in other sectors can't force their employers into
... of practical and theoretical training. It's no coincidence that engine drivers threatened to strike at the end of July if Hungarian
... rising inflation. But nor is it surprising that the government seems unwilling to see strikes that affect hundreds of thousands of

hvg.hu English version

Hungarian sex workers

Prostitutes are to receive subsidised business classes. Like other self-employed people, they will pay tax and social security
training for budding businesswomen. The 110 places available were several times oversubscribed. One part of the story goes back to
... event in Pecs. Police asked several prostitutes for identity papers and, finding they had no official documents on them at all, reported them
... law makes it impossible to have sex for money legally, since either the employer or the business would be criminally liable. A

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Vészesen apad a Garda-tó Olaszországban

Vészesen apad a Garda-, Olaszország legnagyobb tava, olyannyira, hogy le kellett állítani a szárnyashajók közlekedését, és
A tartós hőség és szárazság miatt június közepe óta 40 centiméternyit apadt a vízszintje, és minden nap további 1 centiméterrel
... hosszú, legnagyobb szélességénél 17 kilométer széles Garda- Olaszország legnagyobb tava, amely a gazdag mediterrán flórának és az

hvg.hu English version

Popping the balloon

The new railway station at Budapest's Ferihegy airport, which was recently opened to much fanfare, does little to make the
.... Our reporter travelled from Nyugati station in the centre of Budapest to Ferihegy, and discovered that there was less to
and then the next 10km was built. It was little different on 16 July, when a few guests braved the heatwave to witness the opening
... a new stop on the Budapest-Cegled-Szolnok line, which has been christened Ferihegy. According to the Budapest Transport Alliance, this
... have wondered down to Nyugati station and bought a ticket to the airport. Admittedly, the ticket clerk would have

hvg.hu English version

Anxious relatives

power who is working to re-establish his country's superpower prestige? Ferenc Gyurcsany chose the former by attending the council of
than Brussels. And Fidesz, which called Gyurcsany a lackey, an unprincipled servant of the Union, now seeks to set itself up as the
... party. Before jumping to conclusions, let us ask what this dispute between the Russian bear and Estonia's blue lion is about, exactly
... secondary schools. Despite this, after World War I, the democratic government in Tallinn declined to persecute the Russian minority

hvg.hu English version

Back in time

years ago, people largely accepted they had to pick up the tab for the comfort spending the Communist government had indulged in
... dictatorship had died so recently that it was impossible to believe it might be resurrected. But then the state managed once again
..., just like under Socialism, it was possible in a market economy to consume more than was produced. For this reason, and with a constant
struck by a strange metaphor. If we forget to pull the handbrake, then a car on a slope will just roll until it hits something. But
..., you have to start the motor. A democracy built on party competition seems to work in the same way. The difference is that
... way round. It's not unheard of for an undeserved victory to fall into a party's lap. At the same time, you have to work

hvg.hu English version

Not a life-and-death issue

but we're not pleased. Actually - who, exactly, is not pleased? Shareholders seem to be happy, at any rate. They're more than willing
© Túry Gergely In June OMV raised its position in Mol from 10 per cent to 18.6 per cent, investing €1bn in the process. In a
... battle as its own, and the opposition is only too ready to agree. The prime minster said OMV's activities were "not a friendly move,"
... use all measures to stop" their buying spree. Neither the events themselves nor certain OMV statements have been too friendly - they

hvg.hu English version

Bridges of sighs

They're not about to collapse under our feet, but some of the Budapest's bridges over the Danube are in a pretty miserable state. There
over recent years had unfolded as predicted, we would be taking the ferry from inner Pest to Buda. Though in poor shape, Budapest's
... a day to 149,000 over the same period - though this number had fallen to 107,000 by last year. Yet the city fathers
... their power to improve things. There has been no end to plans for new bridges. Everybody claims to be sure

hvg.hu English version

Parties does not need to advertise

Viktor Orban is using advertising to fight the silly season. After guerrilla marketing - a strange Hungarian approach, no less - we are
... witnessing the anti-political advertising campaign, whereby our politician campaigns under the banner of an anti-campaigning jihad. His idea, that
... see enshrined as a white paper, was not proposed to be accepted, but in order to provoke a
Viktor Orban's proposal is to ban TV, radio and poster advertisements from political campaigning, since, "advertising is not a way of
... a means of manipulation." But this only means something if every party (including Fidesz, of course) uses the media to drag voters
.... If this disinformation, which Orban says must be banned, is intrinsic to politics, then the proposal is incomplete. If campaign

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