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HUNGARY News, Mar 11, 2012



Big Hungary rally calls for government ouster
Chicago Tribune
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested outside Hungary'sparliament on Saturday calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his centre-right government which they say has undermined democratic values and weakened the economy.
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Spotlight on Hungarian-Slovak relations following landslide election victory ...
Politics.hu
By All Hungary News A landslide victory in yesterday's general election in Slovakia by the party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico is likely to lead to a deterioration of relations between that country and neighboring Hungary.
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Thousands in Hungary attend anti-govt protest
Boston.com
Solidarity co-founder Peter Konya said it was necessary to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orban in parliamentary elections because he represented a “lying, endlessly corrupt autocracy.'' Elections are next scheduled for early 2014.
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Left Scores Big in Slovak Vote
Wall Street Journal
At-times violent anti-austerity demonstrations forced the resignation of Romania's center-right prime minister this year. And France's Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande is leading in the polls while promising to rethink Europe's ...
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Pro-European left sweeps Slovak vote, targets rich
Reuters
Fico's centre-left Smer party won a majority in parliament and the prime minister in waiting said he would uphold the outgoing government's commitment to cut the central European country's budget gap and support steps to strengthen the euro zone.
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Opposition wins Slovak elections
Financial Times
The Smer party of Robert Fico, who served as prime minister in 2006-10, smashed the outgoing centre-right governing coalition, taking 83 out of 150 seats in parliament and 44.4 per cent of the vote – the best result for any party since Slovakia's ...
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Financial Times
Slovakia's election Slovakia turns left
The Economist (blog)
The big loser was Mikuláš Dzurinda, a veteran of Slovak politics and a former prime minister. His SDKÚ party, which led the outgoing coalition, barely squeaked into parliament. A similar fate befell the ultra-liberals of Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).
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The Economist (blog)
Dutch PM dodges third degree
Radio Netherlands
A grilling by the European Parliament is no fun, as Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán discovered. In front of more than 700 representatives from 27 countries and dozens of TV crews, he was quizzed about a new media act restricting the activities of ...
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Calls for “new republic” as thousands attend anti-government demonstration at ...
Politics.hu
Participants filling the entire square chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and waved flags reminiscent of the Polish Solidarity movement. The small opposition LMP party put up several tents on the square to collect ...
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Mass rally tells Orban: time you were on your way
Morning Star Online
Protesters sporting republican ribbons and waving the national tricolour chanted slogans demanding the resignation of populist right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has introduced a flat-tax regime while slashing pensions, disability benefits and ...
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Slovak left looks set for sweeping election victory
euronews
By Martin Santa and Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – The centre-left party of former Slovak prime minister Robert Fico looks on course to win an outright parliamentary majority, giving him a mandate to deliver on pledges to tax the rich and cut the ...
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euronews
Slovak leftist Fico sweeps to election victory
Reuters
Fico, who served one term as the central European country's prime ministerin 2006-2010 has pledged to dump Dzurinda's flagship reform - a 19 percent flat income tax - and reel in more from the rich, banks and other firms. His plans involve almost ...
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Of capitalists and colonisers
Budapest Times
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the event that the latest investment is a sure sign Hungary is distancing itself from the economic crisis zone. “The German industry is a partner ofHungary because they do not just try to get our market but they ...
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Budapest Times
Under fire from EC, government submits amendment enhancing independence of ...
Politics.hu
By All Hungary News The Hungarian government on Friday submitted a legal amendment to Parliament to strengthen the independence of the head of the data protection authority. The motion addresses the concerns of the European Commission, Minister of ...
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'Lost History of 1914': the war that might not have been
The Seattle Times
Russia had a prime minister who might have stopped the war, but he had been eased out a few months earlier. In France, a pro-peace politician would have been prime minister during the crisis, except that his wife murdered a newspaper editor, ...
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Slovak left wins election, vows to defend the euro
The West Australian
"The programme will be pro-European," said Fico, who led Slovakia into the eurozone during his first stint as prime ministerfrom 2006-2010. "We want the eurozone preserved and the euro as a strong European currency." His party won 44.4 percent of the...
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The West Australian
Leftists win majority in Slovak vote
FRANCE 24
The leader of the left-wing Smer-Social Democracy party and former Prime Minister Robert Fico (C) talks to journalists as he arrives at party headquarters in Bratislava. With votes from almost 95 percent of polling stations counted, Smer looked set to ...
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FRANCE 24
Portugal Gradually Shuffles Its Way Up Towards The Front Of The Debt Queue
EconoMonitor
Despite Prime Minister Pedro PassosCoelho's assurances that Portugal won't follow Spain in seeking to loosen its deficit bonds in 2012, only last week Antonio Seguro, leader of the Socialist Party that secured Portugal's bailout program last May, ...
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2ND LEAD: Slovak Social Democrats take landslide
Europe Online Magazine
Saturday's elections resulted in the near-annihilation of the Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party (SDKU) headed by Foreign Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, a former prime minister, which secured just 11 seats, down from 28 in the last ...
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Slovak right collapses amid graft scandals
Independent Online
Outgoing prime minister Iveta Radicova - a popular figure who quit politics before the Gorilla scandal broke - pointed to the wider political malaise sweeping the European Union as the eurozone debt crisis stumps growth. “In the past 20 months, ...
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Independent Online
Slovak left wins election, vows to defend euro:
The Australian Eye
“We want the eurozone preserved and the euro as a strong European currency,” said the former prime minister who is set to return to power after 20 months in the opposition. His party won 45 percent of the vote, well ahead of the outgoing SDKU-DS that ...
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Fico wins sweeping victory
The Slovak Spectator
However, Dzurinda denied that his party was set to share the fate of the party of another former prime minister, Vladimír Mečiar, whose Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), which dominated Slovak politics in the 1990s and was in government as ...
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Smer wins historic election victory
The Slovak Spectator
The party of former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), which dominated Slovak politics in the 1990s and was in government as recently as 2010, attracted less than 1 percent of the vote.
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Thousands join anti-government protests in Budapest
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
BUDAPEST, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people joined a demonstration in the capital on Saturday, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his center-right government. "Viktor Orban and his gang need to be removed at the soonest ...
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Press digest
Times of Malta
Magyar Nemzet reports thousands of people have demonstrated in front of theHungarian Parliament in Budapest to denounce the authoritarian politics of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government. Peter Konya, leader of the Solidarity ...
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Leftists tipped to win as Slovaks vote
Gulf Times
In a nod to what the European Union could expect of him as prime minister, Fico underscored his commitment to it as he cast his ballot in Bratislava. “Slovakia is a country that gets more from the EU than it gives. If the EU shows solidarity toward us, ...
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Gulf Times
Islam versus Europe: Euroclowns Demand Dutch Prime Minister ...
By Cheradenine Zakalwe
A grilling by the European Parliament is no fun, as Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán discovered. In front of more than 700 representatives from 27 countries and dozens of TV crews, he was quizzed about a new media act restricting the ...
Islam versus Europe
Spotlight on Hungarian-Slovak relations following landslide election ...
By All Hungary News
A landslide victory in yesterday's general election in Slovakia by the party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico is likely to lead to a deterioration of relations between that country and neighboring Hungary. According to Reuters, with almost all ...
Politics.hu
BlackRock Sees World's Best Bond Hungarian Rally at Risk on ...
The world's best bond and currency rally risks reversing as Hungarian PrimeMinister Viktor Orban stalls on conditions for a bailout, according to BlackRock Inc., ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../blackrock-sees-world-s-best-bond-ral...
Hungary's Prime Minister Orban signs a fiscal compact enshrining ...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban Reinfeldt signs a "fiscal compact" enshrining common debt rules among the 17 members of the euro zone during a ...
news.yahoo.com/.../hungarys-prime-minister-orban-signs-fisca...
Morning Briefing: Hungary Prime Minister Orban, Slovak ECBer ...
European Union and euro-zone issues will likely dominate the news flow in the region Friday. Early morning Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled ...
blogs.wsj.com/.../morning-briefing-hungary-prime-minister-or...
Hungary PM may reshuffle govt early, keep econ minister- Paper
BUDAPEST, March 1 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbanmay reshuffle his government as early as late April and will keep Economy Minister ...
www.sundaytimes.lk/index.php?option...
EU: Hungary must answer more questions to get aid - The Mainichi ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his annual "State ofHungary" speech at Millenaris Park in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 7, 2012. The inscription ...
mdn.mainichi.jp/.../news/20120308p2g00m0bu124000c.html
Hungary PM sees quick resolution to EU fund freeze | Politics.hu
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday he expected the issue of EU cohesion fund freeze for Hungary to be resolved soon. Speaking to ...
www.politics.hu/.../hungary-pm-sees-quick-resolution-to-eu-f...
Government - Prime Minister's Office - News
Hungary will not lose any penny of its convergence or cohesion fund support next year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a press conference after the EU's...
accessibility.government.hu/.../hungary-not-to-lose-a-penny-o...
EU and IMF increase pressure on Hungary
In Hungary Orban plays the nationalist card but the truth is that his ... Herman van Rompuy, met with the Hungarian prime minister in Brussels for informal talks.
www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/hung-m02.shtml
Islam versus Europe: Euroclowns Demand Dutch Prime Minister ...
You don't understand a thing about democracy!” A grilling by the European Parliament is no fun, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discovered. In front of ...
islamversuseurope.blogspot.com/.../euroclowns-demand-dutch...
Big Hungary rally calls for government ouster
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested outside Hungary'sparliament on Saturday calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ...
www.chicagotribune.com/.../sns-rt-us-hungary-protestbre8290...
PORTFOLIO.HU | The EU will not deprive Hungary of a single ...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is certain that the European Union will not suspend development fund payments for the country from 1 January 2013.
www.portfolio.hu/.../the_eu_will_not_deprive_hungary_of_a...
Spotlight on Hungarian-Slovak relations following landslide ...
By All Hungary News A landslide victory in yesterday's general election in Slovakia by the party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico is likely to lead to a...
www.politics.hu/.../spotlight-on-hungarian-slovak-relations-fol...
Hungary PM may reshuffle gov't early
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban may reshuffle his government as early as late April and will keep Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy in his cabinet, the ...
www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?...
Hungarian PM questions European Commission's ... - EUbusiness
(BERLIN) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at the European Commission, accusing it of lacking "democratic legitimacy", following criticism ...
www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/hungary-germany.fjl
Hungary's path to nowhere - DW-WORLD.DE - Top Stories
Specifically, the Commission is accusing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of using fiscal and accounting tricks to achieve a budget deficit of 3 ...
mobile.dw.de/english/mobile.A-15773734-9097.html
EU Gives Hungary a Month to Adopt Its Democratic Norms
BUDAPEST — The European Commission said Wednesday that Hungary had one month ... of Hungarian democracy under the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
www.nytimes.com/.../eu-gives-hungary-a-month-to-adopt-its-...
Hungary Opposition Sees Government Stalling In EU/IMF Talks
"This isn't about Mr. IMF coming over and telling the helpless Hungarian primeminister what he needs to do and how deep he has to reach in his pockets," ...
www.nasdaq.com/.../hungary-opposition-sees-government-stal...
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