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Hungarians have voted on a referendum where they literally voted about some recently introduced fees, and, according to the opposition, about the government itself. With an overwhelming majority they rejected the fees.
Continue reading ‘After the Referendum’
The permanent campaign in Hungary goes on. This time, parties are campaigning for a referendum that will take place on March 9th. The topic: co-payment and tuition fee.
Continue reading ‘Playing the Referendum Game’
Once again, a national strike was called by some trade unions for Monday, the 17th of December. The parliament is voting on that day about the health-care reform, among others, a kind of liberalization of the social security system (meaning: a limited permission of having multiple insurance companies). This is the second national strike, but the first one, a few weeks ago, was not too successful.
Continue reading ‘Day of Strikes’
Yes, it was a mild autumn, at least compared to last year’s hot one. Not regarding the weather, of course. Many were afraid that last year’s riots will be repeated again - well, they were not. However, they tried it, but there were not enough extremists, and the police is much better than it was a year ago.
Continue reading ‘Budapest’s Mild Autumn’
Some were afraid, but Budapest remained calm on the first anniversary of last year’s riots. There were some protests, but with much less participants than last year, and this time there were no clashes between the protesters and the police. Some MPs were abused though.
Continue reading ‘Calm anniversary’
One and a half weeks have passed since the inauguration of the Hungarian Guards. Since then the political debate surrounding it is not smaller, but even bigger and bigger. Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány speaks about the resurrection of fascism, while Fidesz, the bigger opposition party accuses him with inciting hysteria.
Continue reading ‘Ongoing Debate: Fascism in Hungary?’
Hungarian Guards / Magyar Gárda. This is the name of a new organization of young men in Hungary. Some say that this is purely an extreme rightist paramilitary organization. According to themselves, they just offer opportunity to young people to promote tradition. Without judging, let’s see the facts.
Continue reading ‘Hungarian Guards’
Gays are sick - these three words represent the opinion of many Hungarian doctors. And nowadays, they express it openly. A few days after extreme rightists attacked the Gay Pride march in Budapest and beat several people just because they thought that they were gay and shouted “gays into the Danube, and the Jews after them”, an article was published on the official website of the Hungarian Medical Chamber.
Continue reading ‘Homophobic doctors’
“I am Gábor Szetey. The HR Under-Secretary of the government of the Hungarian Republic. I believe in God, in love, in freedom and in equality. I am Hungarian and European. I am an economist, an HR-leader. A partner, a friend, sometimes an opponent. And gay. Like you. Like hundreds of thousands in this country, who - I hope - will hear these sentences. Hooh. I expressed it.”
Continue reading ‘The Coming-out of the Under-Secretary’
The Hungarian government has two new spokespersons. So what, could many say, they change quite often. But, one of them is a young, female political analyst, and the other one is Roma.
Continue reading ‘A Roma Spokesman for the Government’
“We screwed it up. Not a little, a lot. No country in Europe has ever done anything so hulk as we did…We have apparently lied for the last one and a half, two years.” Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány said this last May to his Socialist MPs. Then in September the speech was leaked to the media and it caused riots. “We blew it. Not a little, a lot”, said Gyurcsány this week in the parliament. He repeated his whole speech, replacing the swear-words with some less rude ones.
Continue reading ‘The Öszöd-speech, Reloaded’