News: Hungary

We have started to collect the most important news related to Hungary in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Hungary: news

Toxic memory

Friday, August 26th 2011, 23:49

Revisiting the scene of Hungary's deadly sludge disaster
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Hamilton eyes victory in Hungary

Friday, July 29th 2011, 17:18
related countries: Bermuda, Germany

Lewis Hamilton is confident he can follow up his triumph at the German Grand Prix by challenging for another victory in Hungary on Sunday.
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Nazi war crimes suspect acquitted

Monday, July 18th 2011, 21:47
related countries: Hong Kong, Serbia and Montenegro
related places: Budapest

A 97-year-old Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, is acquitted by a Budapest court of rounding up and executing Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942.
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VIDEO: Habsburg heart buried in Hungary

Monday, July 18th 2011, 3:42
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Budapest

It is the end of an era in Hungary as the heart of the last heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto von Habsburg, is buried in an abbey near Budapest.
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Hungary burial for Habsburg heart

Monday, July 18th 2011, 0:09
related countries: Austria, Hong Kong
related places: Vienna

The heart of the last heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto von Habsburg, is buried in Hungary following his funeral in Vienna.
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In pictures

Tuesday, June 28th 2011, 1:40

How photographers in pre-war Hungary helped shape the medium's future
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Hungarians stage 'clown' protest

Thursday, June 16th 2011, 23:21

Thousands of people in Hungary, many dressed as clowns, rally against austerity measures, including cuts in early retirement benefits.
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'Gypsy patrol'

Wednesday, June 8th 2011, 7:01

Hungary's vigilante squads accused of stirring racism
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Hungary tries Nazi suspect of 97

Thursday, May 5th 2011, 15:41
related countries: Hong Kong, Serbia and Montenegro
related places: Budapest

A 97-year-old Hungarian, Sandor Kepiro, goes on trial in Budapest accused of massacring civilians in Serbia in 1942.
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Hungarian Roma battle vigilantes

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 11:54
related countries: Hong Kong

Far-right vigilantes clash with Roma (Gypsies) in a village in north-east Hungary gripped by ethnic tensions.
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Hungary Roma flee far-right camp

Friday, April 22nd 2011, 15:17

The Red Cross evacuates 300 Roma from a village in north-east Hungary, over fears of attacks by a right-wing vigilante group holding a training camp nearby.
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Hungary votes in new constitution

Monday, April 18th 2011, 17:35

Opposition parties walk out as Hungary's parliament votes for a new constitution, which its authors claim ends the transition from a totalitarian to a democratic system.
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ECB urged Portugal to seek rescue

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 22:45
related countries: Portugal

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says it "encouraged" crisis-hit Portugal to seek a bail-out.
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'New risk' at Hungary sludge site

Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 18:32
related countries: Hong Kong

Waste water from a Hungarian aluminium plant still contains toxic chemicals despite a big clean-up there, Greenpeace says.
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Hungary agrees changes in EU row

Monday, February 7th 2011, 19:36

Hungary agrees to make its controversial media law "more precise", after talks with European Union experts.
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EU-Hungary media row cools down

Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 11:00
related places: Budapest

The threat of EU legal action against Hungary recedes after Budapest pledged to amend its controversial media law if need be.
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New Bible belt

Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 7:42

Churches help integrate Hungary's struggling Roma
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Three dead in Budapest stampede

Sunday, January 16th 2011, 12:18
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Budapest

Three women are killed in a stampede at a crowded three-storey nightclub in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
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Tread carefully - Hungarian carpet upsets neighbours

Friday, January 14th 2011, 16:37
related countries: Belgium, Hong Kong
related places: Brussels

A giant carpet installed by Hungary in Brussels to mark the start of its EU presidency stirs up controversy over the past.
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Hungary PM defuses media law row

Friday, January 7th 2011, 23:01
related countries: Hong Kong

Hungary's prime minister has said he wants to defuse political tensions over his country's contentious new media law which is seen by critics as an attack on press freedom.
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Under the spotlight

Friday, January 7th 2011, 22:39

Hungary at pains not to let media furore cloud its EU leadership
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