Budapest, January 8 (MTI) – It’s time to declassify a report by secret services in connection with the leaking of the speech of ex-premier Ferenc Gyurcsany, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter told commercial news channel HirTV on Tuesday evening. Gyurcsany’s infamous…
Budapest, January 6 (MTI) – An agreement between the main opposition Socialists and the E-PM electoral alliance needs to be rewritten since E-PM plans to run at the spring general election as a political party and not as an alliance,…
Budapest, January 3 (MTI) – The average unemployment rate among Hungarians between the ages of 15 and 74 was 9.3 percent in September-November, the lowest one in almost five years, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said today. The rate was…
(MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban has failed to deliver on a promise that 2012 would be the year of lift-off and 2013 that of increase, Jozsef Tobias, deputy group leader for the Socialists said on Saturday. The net minimum…
Budapest, December 18 (MTI) – Attila Mesterhazy, leader of the opposition Socialist Party, pledged to scrap the Fidesz government’s “idiotic” economic policy and “perverted” social policy if it wins next year’s election. Policies that support the construction of sport stadiums…
Budapest, December 16 (MTI) – Hungary’s Supreme Court, the Kuria, on Monday said that lending in foreign currency and related contracts are legal, and the client should bear the risks related to exchange rate fluctuations. Banking Association secretary general Levente…
Budapest, December 2 (MTI) – Support for political parties in Hungary in November, gauged by pollsters Ipsos, Tarki, Nezopont, Szazadveg and Median on representative samples. Support for parties in the whole sample: Ipsos Tarki Nezopont Szazadveg Median ———————————————————— Fidesz-KDNP 27…
The Socialist Party (MSZP) and the E14-PM electoral alliance presented at the press conference in Nyírbátor their individual candidates running in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County’s constituencies in 2014 parliamentary elections on yesterday. The Socialists will field candidates in 4, while E14-PM will…
The Socialist Party (MSZP) and the E14-PM electoral alliance presented their individual candidates running in Budapest’s constituencies in next year’s parliamentary elections. The Socialists will field candidates in 11, while E14-PM will have candidates in 7 constituencies. On the picture…
The general assembly of Párbeszéd Magyarországért (PM) (in english: Dialogue for Hungary) endorsed candidates in the 11 constituencies, and the members of PM voted about the EU Parliament candiates list. The left Association of MSZP-Együtt 2014-PM will take the parliamentary…
Laszlo Andor, one of Europe’s most powerful technocrats, is a committed socialist determined to drag the UK through the courts over welfare laws. Mr Andor, 47, holds one of the most powerful positions in the European Union as Commissioner for…
Murder suspects in Hungary face unlimited pre-trial custody under new proposals criticised by opposition politicians on Thursday as unconstitutional, news24.com reports. The changes, outlined by the ruling Fidesz party on Wednesday, are set to go before parliament where Prime Minister Viktor…
In August, the most watched news programs was theme of the government’s economic policy measures and the celebration on 20 August, while Roma’s murder trial is not really kicked a ball – was revealed by the media authority quick report.…
Military intervention in Syria should be avoided if at all possible since it could cause serious problems, MFA Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Németh declared before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament on 11 September 2013. László Kovács (MSZP)…