Category Archives: EN

Hungary seeks new voters abroad to shape elections at home

Posted on September 4, 2013 by ellenpolus

Viktor Orbán’s nationalist message plays well to ethnic Hungarians across Europe. The ruling party hopes that will boost its prospects in 2014 elections. Budapest, Hungary Hungary‘s next national election could be influenced by voters who have never lived here. And … Continue reading →

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Hungary Thanks Horthy Despite Holocaust

Posted on September 3, 2013 by ellenpolus

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife Columns)– OK. Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews were massacred along with others the Nazis didn’t like. Hungary’s wartime leader Miklós Horthy knew this would happen when he allied the nation to Nazi-Germany. His noisy friend, Adolf Hitler, often … Continue reading →

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Hungary to make more changes to constitution in effort to deflect international criticism

Posted on August 31, 2013 by ellenpolus

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The Hungarian government said Thursday it is proposing new amendments to the country’s constitution to avoid giving critics further grounds for criticism. Robert Repassy, state secretary at the Justice Ministry, said the draft of the constitution’s fifth … Continue reading →

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Hungary proposes new constitution changes to soothe EU fears

Posted on August 31, 2013 by ellenpolus

Hungary proposed new changes to its controversial constitution Friday that it said should calm European Union fears that basic rights are being eroded in the former communist country. “The government wants to do away with those… problems which have served … Continue reading →

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CfP: Protest and Power in Central and Eastern European States-Cambridge

Posted on August 22, 2013 by ellenpolus

The recent wave of protests and demonstrations that spread across and beyond Europe has renewed scholarly interest in social movements and protest: whether Coloured revolutions or Occupy movements, Otpor in Yugoslavia or Femen in Ukraine, all are indicative of a … Continue reading →

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Free Artists – who they are?

Posted on August 21, 2013 by ellenpolus

Free Artists (Szabad Művészek) is an open gathering of university students and teachers in the arts, artists, art historians, aestheticians, curators and civilians, who demand the restitution of the independence and freedom of Hungarian culture. (statement here) The group was … Continue reading →

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Eastern European autocrats pose new test for democracy

Posted on August 13, 2013 by ellenpolus

From Hungary’s Orbán and Czech Republic’s Zeman to Erdoğan in Turkey, a new breed of democratic strongman is emerging A 40-minute drive south-west of Budapest, Felcsút is a typical Hungarian village on the surface, its cottages strung out neatly along … Continue reading →

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