Category Archives: social background HU

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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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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Trying to Get Through: Hungarians Send Video Messages to Prime Minister

Posted on April 1, 2013 by ellenpolus

The snow that first blanketed western Europe eventually reached Hungary by March 15, the day of an important national holiday. Heavy snowfall left thousands stranded on the roads of this eastern European country, and the Hungarian government received harsh criticism … Continue reading →

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Decisions on ‘balanced’ reporting: the Media Council upholds a majority of far-right Jobbik party’s complaints

Posted on March 31, 2013 by ellenpolus

According to information posted on its website, the Media Council has considered 27 complaints of unbalanced reporting to date, more than half of which were brought by Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party. The Media Council has upheld 13 of Jobbik’s 16 complaints against … Continue reading →

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From the Don River to the proclamation of western artists and scientists

Posted on March 29, 2013 by ellenpolus

I have a very long list of possible topics but I know that I will never get to the end of it because in the meantime newer topics keep emerging. So I decided to deal with several themes today. Let’s … Continue reading →

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