Hungary News
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The Hungarian community of South Africa’s economic heartland, Gauteng Province, has commemorated March 15th, a national day and the anniversary of the revolution which threw out feudalism in 1848.
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Hungary has seen the largest demonstration since the end of Communism, comprising civil society groups, as well as the Roma minority and Hungarians from former Hungarian lands in neighbouring countries.
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The executive branch of the EU, the European Commission, has taken the first steps in legal proceedings against member state Hungary over changes to its central bank, judiciary and data protection laws.
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The US Ambassador to Hungary, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, says it is not US policy to overthrow the elected government of the country, despite her warnings a day before that Hungary was moving in an undemocratic direction.
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Just two-and-a-half months after Steve Jobs, the visionary founder of Apple, passed away at 56 years of age, the first Steve Jobs statue was erected.
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Hungary’s National Office of Investigation (NNI) has begun an inquiry into a 66-year-old war crime allegedly committed by the Soviet Red Army in which 32 men aged mainly between 16-22 were summarily shot in front of their parents.
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Hungary is celebrating a decisive victory over the Ottoman Empire more than 500 years ago, which is still remembered in Catholic countries by the ringing of church bells after the Turks had captured Constantinople.
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A court in Hungary has acquitted Sándor Képíró (97) of committing war crimes during a massacre committed by Hungarian troops in 1942, when Képíró was a junior gendarmerie officer. Képíró has maintained his innocence throughout.
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President Pál Schmitt of Hungary has signed the country’s first independent written constitution into law at the presidential palace, called the Sándor Palota, in Buda Castle. The country had an oral constitution first summarised in 1514.
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Gay groups are angry that Hungary’s new constitution bans same-sex marriage and doesn’t protect the rights of homosexuals.
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Hungary burns old banknotes to provide heating to the needy
Buckets of water have been thrown over women in Hungary, as part of an unusual annual ceremony.
Tens of thousands of people protest against Hungary's controversial new constitution introduced by the governing centre-right Fidesz party.
Fitch becomes the third ratings agency to cut Hungary's credit rating to junk status as deadlock with the IMF continues.
Hungary's government agrees to strengthen its central bank's independence, opening the way to an EU bailout package.
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