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In response to Attila Leitner’s inaccurate and defamatory piece in the Budapest Times, we offer the following statement. First, Leitner assumes that “someone in the countryside” wouldn’t care about what[…]
Non-central European university
The controversy surrounding the Central European University seems to be all the rage these days. Well, in Budapest anyways; if you ask someone in the countryside, there is a good[…]
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Fear not if you have nothing to hide
The government plans to pass legislation that would make it mandatory for NGOs receiving their funding from abroad to disclose where they are financed from. The law “is a disclosure[…]
Jokers and chokers
Even though some six months ago there was practically full political consensus for the Hungarian capital to battle Los Angeles, Rome and Paris to host the 2024 Olympics, the hopes[…]
A case of “yes, we can” in 2024
So a new movement – Momentum – is forming and their main belief is saying no to the Olympics in Budapest. I never understood why anyone tries to start something[…]
Keeping on keeping on
Welcome to 2017, the 15th year of The Budapest Times. When we started in 2003 Brad Pitt was still married, but not to Angelina, to Jennifer Aniston. The Socialists and[…]
You’re fired, now celebrate
After banning Hungarian diplomats from attending Romanian commemorations of the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that Hungarians have nothing to celebrate[…]
Their heaven is the real hell
After the government reached an agreement with employers and unions on increasing the minimum wage by 15 percent from January, the Socialist Party accused ruling Fidesz of working to the[…]
Opposition for opposition’s sake
The Socialists, Jobbik and Democratic Coalition are now becoming a group seeking to thwart any initiative, ruling Fidesz’ parliamentary group leader Lajos Kósa told a press conference after new judges[…]
From now on, a spade is a spade
Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States of America and some people are not ecstatic about this. So they started protesting. The US of A is[…]
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