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10th March, 2010
Super computer unveiled
Hungary’s most powerful computer to date was presented to the media at the Csillebérc centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. It will research the genetic back-ground to asthma, allergies and leukaemia.
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10th March, 2010
Gyurcsány to speak on recent years
Former prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány will make a speech on Hungary’s last few years and the tasks ahead at a Democratic Charta public function on March 19.
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9th March, 2010
Bank extends help to robbed hospital
The K & H group is transferring Ft 2.5 million to Heim Pál Hospital, from where medical instruments were stolen recently.
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9th March, 2010
Overdose to race again in May
Horse-racing phenomenon Overdose will race again in May, website delmagyar.hu reported, quoting its owner Zoltán Mikóczy on Monday. “Dózi” last raced on April 19, 2009.
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8th March, 2010
Tokaj appears as Slovak wine region
The Tokaj name has again appeared as a Slovak wine region in the e-bacchus, the registry of EU wine regions, much to the consternation of vintners in the Hungarian region.
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8th March, 2010
Budapest Airport expects more custom
Budapest Airport forecasts that Ferihegy airport will have 8.2 million passengers this year, up from 8.1 million in 2009.
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5th March, 2010
National Park goes under
Aggtelek National Park (ANP) has gone bankrupt with only Ft 20 million in its account, which is only sufficient to pay its staff salaries, Magyar Hírlap reports.
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5th March, 2010
Police detain 6 in connection with death
Police took six suspects into custody yesterday in connection with the murder of a man in Porcsalma, Szabolcs county, police spokesman Gergely Fülöp told MTI. Fülöp said a family attacked a house with weapons and killed the 34-year-old on the spot.
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4th March, 2010
Canada: Hungary becoming a problem
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney did not rule out the reintroduction of travel visas for Hungarians yesterday, saying Hungary is becoming Canada’s number one source country for asylum seekers.
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4th March, 2010
Hungarian firm takes over at Sármellék
FB Airport has been granted the license to operate Fly Balaton airport in Sármellék for 50 years, with an option to extend it for another 50 years, according to an agreement between the local municipalities and the company owned by Hungarian property developer SDC Group.
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4th March, 2010
Suzuki to recall 6,230 cars in Hungary
Japanese car maker Suzuki will recall and check the position of the fuel pipes of around 39,000 1.3- and 1.5-litre Swift models made at its plant in Esztergom between the autumn of 2007 and the spring of 2008, PR director Viktória Ruska announced. The recall will affect 6,230 vehicles sold in Hungary.
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3rd March, 2010
Gov’t earmarks Ft 10bn for Malév
The government has put aside Ft 10 billion of its own general reserves for the capitalisation of Malév and put money at the disposal of the national asset manager (MNV), the official gazette Magyar Közlöny wrote yesterday.
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3rd March, 2010
K. admits to shooting at Roma houses
Árpád K, the main suspect in the recent string of murders of Roma people in Hungary, has admitted that he opened fire on several Roma-inhabited houses on July 21, 2008.
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2nd March, 2010
Form collection at half-way stage
The period for gathering electoral nomination forms has now reached the half-way mark.
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2nd March, 2010
Olympic champ extradited to Hungary
Former Olympic wrestling gold medallist Pé-ter Farkas was flown home to Hungary last night after authorities in Andorra handed him over to Hungarian police officers at a customs office on the Andorran-Spanish border.
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1st March, 2010
The state gets 95% stake in Malév
Malév will be almost fully renationalised after the Hungarian state agreed to take over the company in lieu of debts it is owed by the air-line at an EGM on Friday.
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1st March, 2010
Widespread rumours of Fidesz-IMF deal
Fidesz representatives and the IMF have held preliminary negotiations, according to ru-mours that were rife in London on Friday.
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26th February, 2010
TI calls for halt to Balatonring project
Three NGOs have demanded that the gov-ernment suspend financing of the Balatonring motorcycle race track at Sávoly, based on the findings of a feasibility study conducted by financial consultants KPMG.
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26th February, 2010
Almássy tér leisure centre reopening
The Almássy tér Recreation Centre in Buda-pest’s Seventh District is to reopen after more than two years, Népszabadság reports.
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25th February, 2010
New controversy over nomination rules
A furore has arisen over whether it is legal to collect nomination forms in public places, with different election committees taking different stands.
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25th February, 2010
Uniqa launches legal risk insurance
Insurance company Uniqa has introduced in-surance against legal risk, Napi Gazdaság reports. The insurer now provides financial help to cover the costs of legal representation, court fees, charges levied by arbitration bod-ies, court costs and on lost interest on re-quired deposits.
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25th February, 2010
Budapest getting bigger
The population of Budapest grew by about 10,000 in 2008, according to the Central Sta-tistics Office.
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24th February, 2010
Police catch bogus Fidesz activists
Police yesterday detained three women in the Ninth District who were trying to collect nomi-nation signatures on behalf of Fidesz without any credentials.
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24th February, 2010
Police make arrests in brokerage scam
Police raided the offices of the Capital Part-ners brokerage yesterday morning and de-tained a Czech citizen suspected of master-minding a Ft 3 billion fraud scam.
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23rd February, 2010
MPs criminalise Holocaust denial
The denial of the Holocaust will be punishable by law under a bill passed by Parliament on Monday afternoon.
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23rd February, 2010
Roma Press Centre evicted
The Seventh District has decided not to re-new a ten-year tenancy contract with the Roma Press Centre, forcing the organisation to move out of its office on Nefelejcs utca ef-fective March 1. The office houses the Roma Holocaust archives.
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22nd February, 2010
Police to patrol BKV vehicles
National Police chief József Bencze on Friday instructed Budapest Police to patrol metro stations and trams from March 1 in view of a rise in crime on public transport vehicles.
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22nd February, 2010
Lufthansa strike may affect Ferihegy
The effect of today’s Lufthansa pilots strike on traffic at Ferihegy airport is unpredictable, Népszabadság reports.
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22nd February, 2010
Excavator handler overturns police car
A man knocked over a police car with an ex-cavator in Sárvár, Vas county on Sunday, prompting police to fire on the machine. A po-liceman eventually jumped into the cockpit and forced the driver out following a scuffle.
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19th February, 2010
Motorists saved billions on insurance
One out of four, or nearly one million, motor-ists changed compulsory vehicle insurance polices last year, the insurers association Mabisz revealed yesterday.
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19th February, 2010
Bajnai calls for greater gun control
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai yesterday asked Justice and Law Enforcement Minister Imre Forgács to draft a decree on tightening gun control regulations within days.
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18th February, 2010
Socialists highlight taxes and infrastructure
A revised tax regime, motorway development and Roma integration are among the ideas in a 60-page policy platform to be presented by prime ministerial candidate Attila Mesterházy at the Socialists opening campaign rally on Saturday.
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18th February, 2010
Police impound large arms cache
Szolnok police detained two people in a shopping mall parking lot on Wednesday after they seized 52 firearms and 44,000 rounds of ammunition.
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17th February, 2010
Head of military university arrested
Police detained the head of the National De-fence University on Tuesday, on suspicion of abuse of office, following a months-long in-vestigation.
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17th February, 2010
Fidesz mayor goes on trial
Péter Fenyves, the Fidesz mayor of Mór, went on trial on suspicion of misuse of funds at the Székesfehérvár municipal court on Tuesday. Fenyves denies committing any such crime
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17th February, 2010
Driver’s licences are easy in Hungary
Foreigners regularly come to Hungary to ob-tain driver’s licences, because it is easier to get one here, a driving instructor told Magyar Nemzet.
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16th February, 2010
MPs favour ban on sale of farmland
Parliament yesterday approved a resolution calling on the government to get the EU to ex-tend a ban on the purchase of land by for-eigners for another three years. The current moratorium will end in 2011. All MPs with the exception of nine Free Democrats approved the resolution.
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16th February, 2010
Forum struggling to get nominations
The Democratic Forum and the Free Democ-rats are experiencing difficulty in collecting nominations from potential voters, Forum MP Miklós Csapody told Klubrádió on Monday.
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16th February, 2010
Philips offers jobs in Hungary to laid-off French
Philips offered jobs in Hungary to the 280 employees of its plasma TV set factory in Dreux, France, when it informed them by let-ter on Saturday that the plant is to be closed from Monday.
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15th February, 2010
Fake Fidesz activists proliferate
There have been numerous instances of un-authorised persons collecting nomination pa-pers on behalf of Fidesz candidates, accord-ing to reports. Some fraudsters are allegedly forging credentials of official activists.
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15th February, 2010
Police catch student who planned mass shooting
Budapest police on Thursday arrested a 22-year-old law student who was planning to murder 21 randomly selected people before intending to turn his pistol on himself, it was announced on Friday.
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12th February, 2010
Fidesz slightly down, but still far ahead
Fidesz support has fallen from 63% of de-cided voters in January to 58% this month, but the party still commands a huge lead over the Socialists, whose standing rose slightly from 21% to 22%, according to the latest sur-vey by Szonda Ipsos.
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12th February, 2010
Nominations offered for sale online
Nomination forms are being offered for sale on the internet, with bidding from Ft 500 up-wards accepted, according to a report. This practice is illegal. A four-member family in Vas county has offered all of their nomina-tions for sale until March 3.
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11th February, 2010
Cabinet to extend land sale moratorium
The cabinet will extend the moratorium ban-ning foreigners from purchasing land in Hun-gary by three years, to 2014, if it is supported by the EU, Agriculture Minister József Gráf told MTI-Eco on Wednesday. Gráf said cheap land prices and a need to amend legislation necessitate extending the seven-year morato-rium.
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11th February, 2010
Holocaust survivors families’ sue MÁV
Families of Hungary’s Holocaust victims are suing the Hungarian state railways MÁV at a court in Chicago for $240 million damages and $1 billion non-asset compensation for its part in the deportation of Jews in World War II.
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10th February, 2010
Pre-election tax vows not viable – Orbán
There should not be a flat tax rate, several tax rates are necessary, Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán told TV2 on Tuesday.
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10th February, 2010
US president photos on display in Pécs
An exhibition of MTI photos entitled Welcome Mr. President depicting the visits to Hungary made by US presidents opened at the House of Arts and Literature in Pécs on Tuesday.
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9th February, 2010
Orbán rules out Fidesz-Jobbik pact
Fidesz will not enter into an alliance with Jobbik, party leader Viktor Orbán under-lined yesterday. Interviewed on MTV, Orbán said the next government will have to follow an austerity policy and that Fidesz plans to create one million jobs in ten years, or even sooner.
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8th February, 2010
Demszky’s senior adviser in custody
A court put Ernő Mesterházy, senior adviser to mayor Gábor Demszky, and former PR head of the Budapest public transport com-pany (BKV) Tibor Zelenák in custody on Fri-day. Former deputy CEO of BKV Miklós Re-gőczi was placed under house arrest.
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8th February, 2010
Hungarians wounded in Afghanistan
Two Hungarian soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, when Taliban insurgents attacked their convoy with a grenade launcher in Kunduz, Baghlan province, northern Af-ghanistan Sunday morning. In the resultant exchange of fire one of the Pakistani assail-ants was killed and another was critically in-jured.
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5th February, 2010
Heavy sell-off on stock exchange
Hungarian stocks plunged 1,000 points, or 4.57%, to 20,815 points, on Thursday, the biggest decline in months, as fears of debt problems in some European countries and bad employment figures from the US stoked fears regarding the fragility of economic recovery.
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4th February, 2010
Andorra extradites Olympic champ
Andorra has extradited former Olympic wres-tling champion Péter Farkas to Hungary, the Justice Ministry announced on Wednesday. National Police spokeswoman Mónika Bényi told MTI that steps will be taken to bring the athlete home within the 30-day legal deadline.
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4th February, 2010
Malév bids farewell to Fokker planes
Malév removed the five Fokker aeroplanes from its fleet as part of a cost-cutting pro-gramme at the end of January.
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3rd February, 2010
Septuagenarian sees off burglars
A 77-year-old man chased off robbers in Kislók, Fejér county after they broke into his flat early Tuesday, county police spokes-woman Mónika Németh-Kész told Inforádió.
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3rd February, 2010
Hungarians disgruntled, survey finds
According to the latest survey of Eurobarome-ter, Hungarians are, after Bulgarians, the sec-ond least satisfied nationality in the EU-27 as regards their own lives and social conditions.
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2nd February, 2010
Troop numbers reduced in Kosovo
The number of Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers stationed in Kosovo has been cut from 13,800 to 10,000, KFOR command announced yesterday. The 10,000 remaining soldiers were sent by 32 countries, including Hungary.
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2nd February, 2010
Bajnai looks into future for Hungary
The government’s priorities in the years ahead will be increasing employment, improving educa-tion, combating extremists, supporting Roma in-tegration and regaining the shaken credibility of politics, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said on Monday.
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1st February, 2010
Mesterházy pledges certainty, calm
Socialist prime ministerial candidate Attila Mesterházy promised “certainty and calm” to a forum of nearly 1,000 pensioners at Buda-pest’s Millenáris Park at the weekend.
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1st February, 2010
Six detained in deadly fighting
Police detained six people in Hangács, Bor-sod county on Saturday after a 40-year-old man and a 31-year-old man were killed in a fracas earlier in the day, county police spokeswoman Éva Novodonszki Egyed told MTI. The incident occurred when two groups attacked each another with sticks. Several others were injured and were hospitalised.
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29th January, 2010
Norwegian found in icy water
Police rescued a Norwegian man from icy wa-ter near the Serbian border on Thursday after a local resident spotted him wearing only un-derwear.
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29th January, 2010
84 deaths attributed to exposure
A total of 84 people have died of exposure in Hungary since September, two more than at this stage of last winter, the National Police said Thursday.
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29th January, 2010
Cabinet opens spaces for the homeless
The cabinet has asked local authorities and public institutions to open heated places to the homeless and to provide hot tea during the unusually cold weather.
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28th January, 2010
US investors snap up dollar bonds
Investors scrambled to buy the $2 billion worth of 10-year dollar-denominated bonds issued by Hungary yesterday.
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28th January, 2010
Auction degenerates into police action
Chaos and confusion reigned yesterday as a company attempted to auction off 84 flats owned by people in dire financial straits.
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28th January, 2010
French masters at Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts today opens an ex-hibition of 19th and 20th-century French art on loan from the Pushkin Museum in Mos-cow.
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27th January, 2010
TI to track campaign spending
Transparency International (TI), Freedom House and the Károly Eötvös Research Institute will publish their estimates of political parties’ ex-penses during the election campaign.
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26th January, 2010
Supreme Court suspends NATO radar project
the Supreme Court has suspended construc-tion of a NATO radar station on the Tubes hill near Pécs, in a ruling dated January 20.
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26th January, 2010
Foreign population keeps on rising
The number of foreigners living in Hungary is constantly growing, of whom 216,000 had valid residence permits at the end of 2009, a rise of 15% from the previous year, it was an-nounced on Monday.
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25th January, 2010
Elections set for April 11 and 25
The two rounds of the parliamentary elections will be held on April 11 and 25, President László Sólyom announced on Friday, thereby kicking off the election campaign.
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25th January, 2010
Treatment of detained Britons comes under scrutiny
Hungarian authorities misled a London court in order to win its consent for the extradition of two British suspects, UK newspaper The Ob-server wrote on Sunday.
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22nd January, 2010
MTV denies plan to dismiss 400
MTV yesterday rejected a Népszabadság report that it plans to dismiss 400 personnel. Vice presi-dent Balázs Medveczky said the state TV network will reduce the number of those with exorbitant salaries.
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22nd January, 2010
Forint and stocks slide on US plans
Budapest shares slid for the second consecutive day as a sell-off swept through European mar-kets on fears of US President Barack Obama’s plan to curb risk-taking by banks.
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21st January, 2010
Iron curtain divides Hungary - Bajnai
The “iron curtain” which divides Hungary into political camps should be torn down, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said Wednesday in an interview with Austrian daily Die Presse.
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21st January, 2010
Inoculation centres to close next month
The inoculation centres for vaccines against the H1N1 virus have few visitors these days, but will remain open until February 4, the cabinet decided on Wednesday.
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20th January, 2010
Forum hopeful of 8% election result
Democratic Forum campaign chief Zoltán Somogyi said Tuesday he would not be sur-prised if the party won more than 8% of the votes in the parliamentary elections.
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20th January, 2010
Study assesses immigrants’ attitudes
Vietnamese immigrants consider Hungarians friendly, Turkish immigrants say Hungarians are neither friendly nor unfriendly, but Chi-nese immigrants view the majority society as prejudiced, according to a 2009 study.
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20th January, 2010
Hungarians save boy’s life in Haiti
A Hungarian medical team saved the life of a five-year-old boy in Haiti on Tuesday.
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19th January, 2010
Retkes says alliance can hit 10% mark
The alliance of the Free Democrats and the Democratic Forum forms a “democratic cen-tre” which could win 10% of votes in the par-liamentary elections, Free Democrat chair-man Attila Retkes told Népszabadság on Monday.
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19th January, 2010
Horse-racing fans protest against cuts
A demonstration was staged outside the headquarters of the state asset manager MNV Monday afternoon against plans by the state-owned horse-racing company to reduce activity this year.
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18th January, 2010
Cabinet begins info campaign
The government will launch a two-week cam-paign today to inform the public of what it has done to improve their everyday life.
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18th January, 2010
Thailand extradites two men
Two criminal suspects have been returned to Hungary on the weekend following their unprece-dented extradition from Thailand.
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15th January, 2010
Bajnai draws election battle lines
“The upcoming elections will be a struggle between responsibility and demagoguery, window dressing and power lust,” Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said in an interview with the weekly 168 Óra on Thursday.
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15th January, 2010
Báthory film boasts record budget
A Czech-Slovak-English-Hungarian produced biopic of the infamous 16th Century Hungarian countess Erzsébet Báthory will begin its run in Hungarian cinemas next Wednesday.
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14th January, 2010
Free Dems won’t field candidates
The Free Democrats will not stand at the parliamentary elections this year after signing an agreement with the Democratic Forum, Forum deputy chairman Károly Herényi told a press briefing on Wednesday.
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14th January, 2010
BKV strike now in third day
The ongoing strike organised by Budapest public transport company BKV will continue today as no agreement has been reached on a collective wage deal in the talks in progress between BKV management and unions.
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13th January, 2010
BKV strike to continue today
The BKV strike will continue on Wednesday as no agreement on a collective wage agreement was reached yesterday between the Budapest public transport company’s management and its in-house unions.
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13th January, 2010
Israel guest of honour at book festival
Israel will be the guest of honour at the 17th Budapest International Book Festival that will open on April 22.
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12th January, 2010
MTV besiegers in dock 3.5 years later
The criminal prosecutor proposed suspended prison sentences for 8 defendants who took part in the siege of Hungarian state television MTV headquarters on September 18, 2006 in a trial on Monday. The prosecutor also pro-posed fining a ninth defendant and acquitting a tenth, in the absence of evidence.
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12th January, 2010
Data phishing targets CIB clients again
For the second time in as many weeks, crimi-nals have tried to fraudulently obtain sensitive data from CIB Bank clients in an attempt to take money from their accounts, the bank an-nounced yesterday.
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11th January, 2010
Orbán advised to eschew TV debate
Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán’s advisors have warned him against taking part in a tele-vised debate between the prime ministerial candidates, an expert close to the Fidesz leadership told Népszabadság on Friday.
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7th January, 2010
Degas, Picasso at Fine Arts Museum
An exhibition entitled From Degas to Picasso will open at the Museum of Fine Arts on January 28.
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6th January, 2010
270 BKV buses stay in their garages
Some 270 of Budapest public transport com-pany BKV’s buses remained in their garages on Tuesday, mainly in the south of the capital.
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5th January, 2010
Socialists banking on 50 constituencies
The Socialist Party is counting on winning over 50 individual MP seats in this year’s elections, an internal party survey found.
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5th January, 2010
Évosz finally wins tax case with APEH
The three-year dispute between tax authority APEH and the Construction Industry Com-pany Association (Évosz) has ended with APEH issuing a statement that in Hungary no social contributions should be paid on wages paid to Hungarian employees working abroad for Hungarian companies, but only on wages paid in Hungary.
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4th January, 2010
Sólyom stresses “need for renewal”
President László Sólyom stressed the need for renewal in his New Year’s Day message, taped on December 30 and aired on several major television channels on January 1.
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4th January, 2010
Fidesz plans decade housing scheme
If Fidesz forms the next government it will de-velop a ten-year housing programme and es-tablish an organisation close enough to deci-sion makers to lobby for the construction in-dustry, regarding both construction and real estate operation, housing policy expert Fidesz MP László Mádi told Hungarian news agency MTI.
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4th January, 2010
Famous mountaineer hurt in snow slide
Zsolt Erőss, the first Hungarian to climb Mount Everest, and two other Hungarian mountaineers, suffered severe limb and spi-nal injuries after being buried by snow in the High Tátras mountain range in Slovakia on Saturday night.
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31st December, 2009
BKV strike set for January 12
Eleven unions at the Budapest transport company BKV have declared an indefinite strike beginning on January 12, after rejecting the latest contract offer from management.
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31st December, 2009
Banks expect a stable forint in 2010
The forint will trade in a tight range against the euro and the dollar next year, close to its current levels, according to analysts surveyed by the Bloomberg news agency.
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30th December, 2009
BKV strike threat looms
The Budapest public transport company (BKV) has reached agreement on a new con-tract for 2010 with three of six unions, but the rest are preparing to go on strike, Népszava reports.
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30th December, 2009
Mesterházy suggests pay for home care
Socialist prime ministerial candidate Attila Mesterházy yesterday suggested that home care of the sick gradually be given the status of an ordinary job with payment at least equal to the minimum wage.
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30th December, 2009
Jobs are Hungarians’ main concern
Job security is the biggest worry among Hun-garians, according to a survey by market re-searcher Nielsen.
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29th December, 2009
Slovak FM regrets past six months
The past six months in relations between Hungary and Slovakia were especially hard and unpleasant “and what happened dam-aged both countries in the eyes of the world,” Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcák said in an interview with a Slovak website.
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29th December, 2009
Hungary calls for strategy on energy supplies
Hungary has initiated a summit of the four Visegrád countries to discuss energy supply, Foreign Minister Péter Balázs told Népsza-badság after Russia yesterday threatened to cut off oil shipments through Ukraine.
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28th December, 2009
H1N1 sufferers flock to hospitals
A total of 94 people infected by the H1N1 vi-rus were hospitalised during the Christmas holidays, national chief medical officer Ferenc Falus announced on Sunday.
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28th December, 2009
Afghan border violators detained
Szeged border police detained 16 Afghans attempting to enter the country illegally in Csongrád county on the weekend.
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23rd December, 2009
Matolcsy rejects talk of 7-10% deficit
Fidesz will not allow the budget deficit to reach 7-10% of GDP next year, former econ-omy minister György Matolcsy told a Tuesday press conference.
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23rd December, 2009
MKIK awards Ft 8bn in damages claim
Some 120 workers of construction company BVM Épelem protested outside the Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (MKIK), yesterday after the chamber’s court of arbitra-tion ordered BVM to pay Ft 8 billion in dam-ages to developer Globál Center.
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23rd December, 2009
25% vaccinated against H1N1
One in four Hungarians has been inoculated against the H1N1 virus, placing Hungary be-hind only Sweden and the Netherlands, Health Minister Tamás Székely told reporters yesterday.
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22nd December, 2009
Deep freeze cripples rail traffic again
The severe weather continued to cause prob-lems in rail traffic on Monday, as tracks snapped and switches again froze, as on the weekend.
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21st December, 2009
Teenager shot dead in Gyál
A 21-year-old man has confessed to shooting dead his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in Gyál, on Budapest’s south-eastern outskirts, as she was on her way to school Friday morning.
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21st December, 2009
Roma women convicted of torture
The Pest county court on Friday sentenced two Roma women, aged 28 and 23, to 13-year prison terms for repeatedly torturing neighbours in Tápióbicske, Pest county in 2006.
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21st December, 2009
Cold and snow wreak transport havoc
The severe cold weather rendered rail traffic completely unpredictable across Hungary on Sunday. Trains were unable to run in or out of Budapest’s Keleti and Déli stations, due to frozen switches. The problem was eventually solved at Déli, but not at Keleti.
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17th December, 2009
Horseracing gets lifeline
The State Asset Manager has agreed to pro-vide Ft 840 million in funding in four equal in-stalments to Hungarian horseracing compa-nies.
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17th December, 2009
Two die as snowfall hits Hungary
On Wednesday morning two people died and 29 others were injured in a total of 59 snow- and frost-related accidents in Hungary.
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16th December, 2009
Bajnai sees chance of euro adoption
“Hungary is on the right road for adopting the euro first in the region,” Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai told Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung. “Nevertheless a euro adoption date should only be discussed when there actually is a realistic chance of doing so,” Bajnai said.
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16th December, 2009
H1N1 dead toll now stands at 36
The total number of fatalities caused by the H1N1 flu virus now stands at 36, National head physician Ferenc Falus announced on Tuesday.
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16th December, 2009
Crime 6% down in first 11 months
Crime fell 6% overall in the first 11 months of the year, National Police chief József Bencze told reporters on Tuesday.
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14th December, 2009
Bokros voted Forum’s nominee for PM
The Democratic Forum national council elected Horn-era finance minister Lajos Bok-ros as its candidate for prime minister with an over 90% majority on Saturday, the party an-nounced. The Forum explained in a statement that 61 delegates had voted in favour of Bok-ros, while one dissented and five abstained.
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14th December, 2009
MÁV closes 24 designated lines
State railway company MÁV closed 24 pas-senger lines on the orders of the Traffic Minis-try on Sunday.
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11th December, 2009
Arany Bika hotel operator in bankruptcy
Debrecen-based Cívis Hotels has sought bankruptcy protection as it tries to agree with creditors and collect receivables in an effort to continue operations, HVG reports.
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11th December, 2009
Olympic medallist gets seven years
The Municipal Court yesterday sentenced 1992 Olympic wrestling champion Péter Far-kas in absentia to seven years in penitentiary for growing large quantities of marijuana.
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