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On the Eve of the December 2012 Parliamentary Elections NT: Parliamentary elections will take place in Romania on 9 December. What is at stake? ChM: At stake is a power struggle between President Băsescu and the new Parliamentary majority. The latter is mainly the result of the collapse of the former ruling

PET output in Hungary in numbers: Annual output: 1.8 billion bottles/year, cca: 50,000 tonnesAnnual collection: 12,000 tonnesRecycling: 30–35% of the annual collectionPET material ending up on dumpsites: 38 thousand tonnes 1. The Good Old Days The car-park behind the Fehérvári Road market once held one of the treasures of Communist

UNESCO and the world of science are celebrating the Centenary of János Szentágothai (d. 1994), the imaginative Hungarian neuro-anatomist, who developed a new, three- dimensional model for the functioning of brain from the 1960s. Szentágothai tutored generations of young brain researchers at Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, who have

Karl Lamers (born 1951), Deputy Chairman (CDU–CSU) of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag since November 2006, and President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since November 2010, visited Budapest on 5 October. He met Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi, and was the keynote speaker at the 20th anniversary celebration of

The interest of Hungarian citizens and political elites in the latest governmental change in neighbouring Slovakia is hardly surprising given the spikiness of disputes over bilateral issues over the last two decades. This essay will take a look at the new Slovak government led by Robert Fico, and its key

On 29 July 2012, a referendum on the impeachment of the President took place in Romania. It was the climax of a story that started in May when a new parliamentary majority took power headed by the socialist politician Victor Ponta as Prime Minister and comprising the Social Liberal Union (USL),

1987 – November: Workers’ protests in Brasov (Brasso), brutally crushed by Securitate. 1989 – 16 December: Secret police attempts to arrest Hungarian pastor László Tőkés draw large crowds of ethnic Hungarians and Romanians, protests spread to other cities, army opens fire, then changes sides. The revolution begins. 22 December: Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and

The discovery of László Csatáry, the 97 year old former commander of the Kassa (now Košice in eastern Slovakia) ghetto, living quietly in a residential district in Budapest, drew international headlines in July. In the following article, I attempt to place both his case and the dilemma facing the Hungarian

NT: Both László Csatáry and Sándor Képíró were 97 year olds, living quiet lives at a remarkable age in the Hungarian capital, when they were suddenly hurled into the spotlight and accused of involvement in mass-murder. How would you compare or contrast the two cases? AG: The evidence suggests that Csatáry played

When Hungary achieved democracy by degrees in 1988–89, the country also regained its national independence. Comecon and the Warsaw Pact unraveled; governments were chosen by national free elections rather than by Soviet influence backed by tanks; government policies reflected national rather than bloc interests. Having regained national sovereignty – which is to