Category Archives: EN

Can the EU stop Hungary’s controversial constitutional amendments?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by ellenpolus

Hungary’s new constitutional amendments, which critics say erode the power of the Constitutional Court and violate EU law, came into effect on Monday. Budapest, Hungary Amid growing concerns that the Hungarian government has taken steps to centralize power and weaken … Continue reading →

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Hungary is entrenching the criminalization of homelessness – UN experts on poverty and housing

Posted on April 4, 2013 by ellenpolus

GENEVA (3 April 2013) – Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs on extreme poverty and on adequate housing criticized today a recent amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law that authorizes national and municipal legislation to outlaw sleeping in public spaces. The … Continue reading →

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What on earth is this ignorant nonsense being spread about Hungary?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by ellenpolus

A message for western Europe’s hysterical media – Hungary knows what a dictator looks like, and Viktor Orbán is not one What, I wonder, would be the reaction if a Hungarian who had no English, who had never visited the … Continue reading →

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Hungary is no longer a democracy

Posted on April 3, 2013 by ellenpolus

It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy. President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government. More particularly, the Constitutional … Continue reading →

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Hogyan veszed észre, hogy a Google nemzetbiztonsági utasításra hozzáférést biztosít a gmailedhez?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by ellenpolus

Around January, upon logging into the Google account, Google showed a strange NOTICE message asking me to accept the terms of usage of my account. This was odd, because in a decade of being a Google user, I had never … Continue reading →

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European Roma Rights Centre website closed in protest

Posted on April 2, 2013 by ellenpolus

*CLOSED* Today we’re excluding you (and everyone else) from our website – just as the Hungarian government is excluding its citizens, especially vulnerable groups of society (including Roma), from participation in society. Constitutional changes came into force yesterday that will … Continue reading →

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Budapest, the cultural wasteground

Posted on April 1, 2013 by ellenpolus

He who swaps his homeland, swaps his soul, they say in Hungary. Still, in the last two and a half years, more than half a million Hungarians have left the country and spread throughout the world. That is twice as … Continue reading →

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