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		<title>Media Council plans inquiry into radio caller hinting at assassination of president</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hungary Around the Clock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Media Council has launched an inquiry into a February 22 broadcast on Klubrádió in which a phone-in caller talked about the possible “liquidation” of President Pál Schmitt in a live broadcast. The National Media and Communication Authority said two complaints have been filed. The caller also said that Fifth District Fidesz mayor Antal Rogán [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nézőpont: Fidesz loses tenth, Socialists third of supporters in two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the governing Fidesz-Christian Democrats (KDNP) have lost around a tenth of their supporters, the main opposition Socialists have lost a third since the 2010 spring election, according to an analysis Nezopont polling institute made for weekly Heti Valasz and released on Wednesday. According to a half-term analysis of Hungary’s centre-right government, some 4.5 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National security strategy based on international examples, says ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary’s new national security strategy maintains continuity with the previous strategy created in 2004 and is also based on relevant documents of international organisations and allied countries similar in size and of the same characteristics as Hungary, the foreign ministry’s press department told MTI on Wednesday. The strategy has been prepared by the foreign ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real scandal in the EU&#8217;s threat to cut off Hungary&#8217;s cohesion funds</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/the-real-scandal-in-the-eus-threat-to-cut-off-hungarys-cohesion-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is mostly a story of public finance and economics, today&#8217;s decision by the European Commission to cut off almost EUR 500 million in so-called &#8220;cohesion&#8221; funds to Hungary in 2013 unless the government makes rapid progress on cutting its fiscal deficit inevitably has political angles. The most obvious is that the proposed cutoff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: János Martonyi on Hungary&#8217;s thousand year history with the Czechs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although I have not examined the past thousand years, I agree that Hungarian-Czech relations are excellent.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>If you want Hungarian politicians to do something, just threaten to sue and kill them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education state secretary Rózsa Hoffmann, who has become a lightning rod for opposition to the government&#8217;s planned reform of the country&#8217;s higher education system, was in Debrecen yesterday for a forum with students. While there, she struck an uncharacteristically conciliatory note, saying that the government&#8217;s plan to cut the number of subsidized spots for college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary&#8217;s positive role in helping Roma</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungarys-positive-role-in-helping-roma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungarys-positive-role-in-helping-roma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your report (Roma living in fear as armed militias terrify village with message of hate, 27 January) gave a vivid impression of degrading poverty – and sometimes fear. Last spring the village of Gyöngyöspata saw a dramatic manifestation of tendencies that had been allowed to build over a number of years. Hungary&#8217;s government has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gyurcsány says gov&#8217;t looking to &#8220;autocratic east&#8221; rather than Europe, on mission to replace freedom with forced order</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/govt-on-mission-to-replace-freedom-with-forced-order-says-former-pm-gyurcsany/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/govt-on-mission-to-replace-freedom-with-forced-order-says-former-pm-gyurcsany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desire for a western-style parliamentary democracy which drove the political changes in 1989 has vanished and Hungary has become an introverted country which forces order on people instead of securing their freedom, Ferenc Gyurcsany, leader of the leftist Democratic Coalition, said in a keynote speech on Tuesday. The one-time Socialist prime minister said Hungary’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary will take steps to secure EU cohesion funds, says gov’t official</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungary-will-take-steps-to-secure-eu-cohesion-funds-says-govt-official/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungary-will-take-steps-to-secure-eu-cohesion-funds-says-govt-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission will propose suspending Hungary’s cohesion funds from next year, according to reports, but Hungary will take measures to ensure that such an eventuality does not prevail, a senior Hungarian economic official said on Tuesday. Zoltan Csefalvay, the economy ministry state secretary, reacting to a report that the Commission would propose on Wednesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary adopts national security strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungary-adopts-national-security-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120222/hungary-adopts-national-security-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has adopted Hungary’s national security strategy, the Hungarian Gazette reported on Tuesday. The decree, which takes effect on Wednesday, sets national goals and defines government means by which Hungary can promote its security interests as part of the EU and NATO. Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries are given priority in the strategy. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU looks to make example of Hungary over cohesion fund freeze, says gov’t official</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/eu-looks-to-make-an-example-of-hungary-over-cohesion-fund-freeze-says-govt-official/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/eu-looks-to-make-an-example-of-hungary-over-cohesion-fund-freeze-says-govt-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decision by the European Commission to freeze cohesion funds for Hungary would mean to set precedent to other EU member states on the consequences if they fail to cut their budget deficit below 3 percent of GDP, the head of the prime minister’s office, told public television m1 morning programme on Tuesday. Mihaly Varga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LMP urges would-be students to appeal to court over university places</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/lmp-urges-would-be-students-to-appeal-to-court-over-university-places/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/lmp-urges-would-be-students-to-appeal-to-court-over-university-places/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The small opposition Politics Can Be Different (LMP) party urges university applicants to complain to the Constitutional Court for the radical decrease in the number of state-financed places, the party’s deputy group leader said on Tuesday. Gergely Karacsony said new laws regulating the operation of the top court do not allow the party to directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: József Szájer on whether Viktor Orbán is Superman</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/quotable-jozsef-szajer-on-whether-viktor-orban-is-superman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/quotable-jozsef-szajer-on-whether-viktor-orban-is-superman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Viktor Orbán is not Superman, he makes mistakes, but he readily admits and corrects them, which is not something every government would do.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency International hits out at reassigning of court cases by new judiciary head</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/transparency-international-hits-out-at-reassigning-of-court-cases-by-new-judiciary-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/transparency-international-hits-out-at-reassigning-of-court-cases-by-new-judiciary-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In nine procedures, including one of the most important criminal procedures of the recent years on corruption related offences, has the president of the NOJ decided to reassign cases to other courts at the end of last week. The right to lawful judge is a principal requirement of due processes. As the Constitutional Court declared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Hungarian Federation defends Hungary against criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/american-hungarian-federation-defends-hungary-against-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/american-hungarian-federation-defends-hungary-against-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary has recently been harshly and often unfairly criticised, the president of the American Hungarian Federation (AHF) said on Monday, in a letter briefing the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs ahead of its delegation&#8217;s visit to Hungary this week. Frank Koszorus said in the letter that the AHF believes that much of the criticism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament backs EU fiscal pact</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/parliament-backs-eu-fiscal-pact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/parliament-backs-eu-fiscal-pact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary&#8217;s parliament on Monday voted in favour of a proposal that the country should join the European Union&#8217;s fiscal pact. The European agreement, to take effect on January 1, 2013, will be signed by presidents and prime ministers of the EU at a European Council session on March 1-2. In the parliamentary roll-call vote, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Minister meets Venice Commission delegation over judiciary overhaul</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/foreign-minister-meets-venice-commission-delegation-over-judiciary-overhaul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120221/foreign-minister-meets-venice-commission-delegation-over-judiciary-overhaul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi on Monday met a visiting delegation of the Venice Commission for talks on Hungary’s cardinal laws concerning the judiciary and religious organisations. Parties at the talks reviewed &#8220;legal and technical concerns and critical remarks&#8221; related to legislation governing the legal status of and remuneration for judges, the organisation and administration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supermarket chain president denies financing Fidesz campaign in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/supermarket-chain-president-denies-financing-fidesz-campaign-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/supermarket-chain-president-denies-financing-fidesz-campaign-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a wide-ranging interview with daily Népszabadság, supermarket chain CBA president László Baldauf praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, denied being a financer for Fidesz, and also opined on the chain&#8217;s response if President Pál Schmitt&#8217;s doctoral dissertation is found to have been plagiarized. Speaking with the daily, Baldauf was quick to state that while he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian president stops making public appearances to avoid reporters</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungarian-president-stops-making-public-appearances-to-avoid-reporters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungarian-president-stops-making-public-appearances-to-avoid-reporters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Hungary’s top tabloid Blikk, President Pál Schmitt has responded to allegations that his doctoral dissertation was mostly plagiarized by taking the tack of most politicians under fire: canceling public appearances. Although he was previously known for making five to nine public appearances per month, ever since the allegations were raised, he has avoided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Minister revealed to have traveled to Libya in jet hired by construction firm</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/foreign-minister-revealed-to-have-traveled-to-libya-in-jet-hired-by-construction-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/foreign-minister-revealed-to-have-traveled-to-libya-in-jet-hired-by-construction-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hungary Around the Clock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Minister János Martonyi flew to Libya in a private plane in mid-December, Népszabadság writes, in a report confirmed by ministry spokesman József Tóth. The ministry paid about Ft 400,000 for each passenger, Tóth said. “This was the first time a minister used a private plane,” he underlined. The plane was hired by construction company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading says review of Hungary response to infringements a priority</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/reading-says-review-of-hungary-response-to-infringements-a-priority/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/reading-says-review-of-hungary-response-to-infringements-a-priority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission will review with urgency the Hungarian government’s response to an infringement procedure it launched a month earlier, EC Vice President Viviane Reding said in an interview in Austrian newspaper Kurir on Sunday. The accelerated infringement procedure initiated against Hungary by the Commission concerns the country’s new Central Bank Act, the mandatory retirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed amendments to EU-contested laws to come before parliament in late March, says Fidesz official</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/proposed-amendments-to-eu-contested-laws-to-come-before-parliamentt-in-late-march-says-fidesz-official/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/proposed-amendments-to-eu-contested-laws-to-come-before-parliamentt-in-late-march-says-fidesz-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposed amendments to laws contested under an EU infringement procedure could be promulgated in parliament in the second half of March, Janos Lazar, the leader of the ruling Fidesz party’s parliamentary group told a news conference on Monday. Lazar noted that Budapest had sent its reply to the European Commission in connection with the contested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialists reach new heights of hypocrisy with Malév demagoging</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/socialists-reach-new-heights-of-hypocrisy-with-malev-demagoging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/socialists-reach-new-heights-of-hypocrisy-with-malev-demagoging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik D'Amato</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you think the wounded beast that is the Hungarian Socialist Party is using its exile to engage in some humble reflection on how badly it screwed up while in power during the eight awful years to 2010, think again. On Saturday, István Józsa, the MP in charge of the MSZP caucus&#8217;s economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left-wing groups said in secret talks to set up new &#8220;roundtable for change&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/left-wing-groups-said-in-secret-talks-to-set-up-new-roundtable-for-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/left-wing-groups-said-in-secret-talks-to-set-up-new-roundtable-for-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five left-wing parties have set up a roundtable alliance at an informal private meeting in a Budapest coffee bar last Thursday, Népszabadság reports. Dubbed the &#8220;Left Roundtable for Change&#8221; (BAKA), the alliance includes the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), the Hungarian Communist Party, led by Gyula Thürmer, the Labor Party 2006, the Hungarian Social Democratic Party [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/left-wing-groups-said-in-secret-talks-to-set-up-new-roundtable-for-change/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Hungary stands by new judge retirement rules, says gov’t spokesman</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungary-stands-by-new-judge-retirement-rules-says-govt-spokesman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungary-stands-by-new-judge-retirement-rules-says-govt-spokesman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government, in its reply to European concerns over Hungarian legislation, maintained its position that rules governing the retirement of judges should be in line with general pension rules, government spokesman Andras Giro-Szasz told public Duna Television on Friday. Giro-Szasz said that the new rules applied not only to judges but to prosecutors and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radičová calls Hungarian dual-citizenship measure, Slovak response &#8220;unfortunate&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/slovakias-radicova-calls-hungarian-dual-citizenship-measure-response-unfortunate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/slovakias-radicova-calls-hungarian-dual-citizenship-measure-response-unfortunate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slovak premier Iveta Radicova called Hungary’s decision on dual citizenship, as well as the Slovak government of Robert Fico’s response, &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; in an interview on Slovak public radio’s Hungarian language broadcast on Saturday. Speaking on Patria radio, Radicova said that Slovakia did not have the right solution to the &#8220;unfortunate and non-standard decision of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian American Coalition voices concern over criticism of Orbán gov’t</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungarian-american-coalition-voices-concern-over-criticism-of-orban-govt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120220/hungarian-american-coalition-voices-concern-over-criticism-of-orban-govt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hungarian American Coalition (HAC), an interest group for the Hungarian-American community, has voiced its concern over criticism in the US and European media of the Hungarian government. &#8220;We are deeply concerned by the tone of the harsh criticism in the mainstream US and European media towards the Hungarian government,&#8221; the HAC said in a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quotable: Fidesz MP and Miskolc Deputy Mayor Marcell Zsiga on wages for public works programs</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/quotable-fidesz-mp-and-miskolc-deputy-mayor-marcell-zsiga-on-wages-for-public-works-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/quotable-fidesz-mp-and-miskolc-deputy-mayor-marcell-zsiga-on-wages-for-public-works-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Definitely, you CAN live off a HUF 47,000 monthly salary&#8230; yes, I think you can&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Gov&#8217;t says Hungary sent infringement reply to Brussels</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/govt-says-hungary-sent-infringement-reply-to-brussels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/govt-says-hungary-sent-infringement-reply-to-brussels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hungarian government has sent its letter to the European Commission responding to concerns over three laws raised as part of an infringement procedure, the prime minister’s spokesman and his government counterpart said on Friday. Peter Szijjarto and Andras Giro-Szasz said in a statement that the government had continually consulted the commission over the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council of Europe rapporteurs hold talks with Hungary supreme court head</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/council-of-europe-rapporteurs-hold-talks-with-hungary-supreme-court-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/council-of-europe-rapporteurs-hold-talks-with-hungary-supreme-court-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two rapporteurs from the Council of Europe (CoE) held talks with Peter Darak, the head of the new supreme court Kuria, on Friday, Kuria’s press office told MTI. Swedish Liberal MP Kerstin Lundgren and Czech Conservative deputy Jana Fischerova are wrapping up a two-day visit to Hungary designed to review recent legislation and to assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary on Hungarian Constitution published in English</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/commentary-on-hungarian-constitution-published-in-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/commentary-on-hungarian-constitution-published-in-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary’s Institute of Public Administration has published a volume of commentaries by legal experts on Hungary’s new constitution in English, state secretary for justice Bence Retvari said at the book’s presentation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Friday. The Basic Law of Hungary &#8211; A First Commentary is a study compiled by 18 law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov’t, civil organizations reach deal on sharing Budapest streets on March 15</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/govt-civil-organizations-reach-deal-on-sharing-the-streets-on-march-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/govt-civil-organizations-reach-deal-on-sharing-the-streets-on-march-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary’s authorities reached agreement on Friday with a civil organisation on sites where celebrations of the March 15 holidays will be held this year. Representatives of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, the Budapest Mayor’s Office and the Facebook-organised One Million for Press Freedom group met to discuss how major public sites of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN experts urge Hungary to review law criminalizing homelessness</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/un-experts-urge-hungary-to-review-law-criminalizing-homelessness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/un-experts-urge-hungary-to-review-law-criminalizing-homelessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two independent UN human rights experts have urged Hungary to review its recent legislation criminalising homelessness, daily Nepszabadsag said on Friday, quoting a release posted on the UN News Centre website. &#8220;People who have no choice but to live on the street are now in danger of criminal sanctions,&#8221; said UN special rapporteur on extreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz MEP asks EU commissioner Kroes to &#8220;respect facts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/fidesz-mep-asks-eu-commissioner-kroes-to-respect-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/fidesz-mep-asks-eu-commissioner-kroes-to-respect-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungarian MEP Livia Jaroka has turned to the EU’s media affairs commissioner in connection with statements Neelie Kroes made on ethnic minorities in Hungary in the European Parliament last week, and asked the commissioner to &#8220;respect facts&#8221;. According to a release Jaroka sent to MTI on Thursday, she expressed concern that the commissioner quoted an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Autonomy crucial for Slovak Hungarians, says ethnic leader</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/autonomy-crucial-for-slovak-hungarians-says-ethnic-leader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120217/autonomy-crucial-for-slovak-hungarians-says-ethnic-leader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autonomy of the southern Slovak region could equal survival for the ethnic Hungarian community in Slovakia, the head of the ethnic Party of the Hungarian Coalition told Hungarian public radio on Thursday. Jozsef Berenyi warned that the community could disappear in less than 70 years unless autonomy is granted to the region. The ethnic Hungarian [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Opposition LMP decries draft penal code as costly, ineffective</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/opposition-lmp-slams-draft-penal-code-as-costly-ineffective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/opposition-lmp-slams-draft-penal-code-as-costly-ineffective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The draft penal code favours costly prison sentences and needlessly criminalises minor offenses, an opposition LMP lawmaker said on Thursday. Every prisoner costs Hungarian taxpayers 8,500 forints a day, David Dorosz, a member of parliament’s law enforcement committee, told a news conference. &#8220;Fidesz’s methods do not bring results,&#8221; he said, arguing that the ruling party’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency International says gov’t anti-graft concept good but not enough</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/transparency-international-says-govt-anti-graft-concept-good-but-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/transparency-international-says-govt-anti-graft-concept-good-but-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graft watchdog Transparency International Hungary said on Thursday that the government’s newly published anti-corruption concept was professionally grounded but limited in scope. TI said measures in the draft slated for introduction in 2012-2014 failed to reach beyond government institutions. Noemi Alexa, director of TI Hungary, said the programme failed to provide sufficient guarantees for the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/transparency-international-says-govt-anti-graft-concept-good-but-not-enough/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Orbán: Hungary ready with response to European Commission</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/orban-hungary-ready-with-response-to-european-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/orban-hungary-ready-with-response-to-european-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary has drafted its letter of response to the European Commission in connection with the infringement procedures launched against the country, and the document will be sent on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio’s morning news magazine. Orban said Hungary’s standpoint could be defended and several points would have to be supplemented, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian 99-year-old woman takes Slovak citizenship case to Strasbourg court</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/elderly-woman-takes-slovak-citizenship-case-to-strasbourg-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/elderly-woman-takes-slovak-citizenship-case-to-strasbourg-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of 99-year-old ethnic Hungarian Mrs. Aladár Tamás is asking the European Court of Human Rights to declare that she was deprived of her Slovak citizenship illegally because she has acquired Hungarian citizenship. The woman’s daughter, Judit Tamás, who lives in Hungary, said Wednesday that lawyer Zoltán Lomnici Jr., vice president of the youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrian MEP demands EchoTV apology for name-calling</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/austrian-mep-demands-echotv-apology-for-name-calling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/austrian-mep-demands-echotv-apology-for-name-calling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austrian Green Party MEP Ulrike Lunacek has demanded an apology from EchoTV after its staff member Zsolt Bayer called her “a lousy, lying idiot” in a February 10 broadcast. Speaking in the European Parliament last Thursday, Lunacek condemned anti-EU and anti-Semitic slogans on some posters at the pro-government rally on January 21. Bayer, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament officially rebukes Hungarian government on democracy, rule of law</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/european-parliament-officially-rebukes-hungarian-government-on-democracy-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/european-parliament-officially-rebukes-hungarian-government-on-democracy-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament plenary session on Thursday adopted in Strasbourg a four-party resolution on recent political developments in Hungary. The resolution, submitted and approved by the Socialist, Liberal and Green groups and the European United Left/Nordic Green Left party, expresses &#8220;serious concern&#8221; about &#8220;the exercise of democracy, the rule of law, the respect and protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: Zoltán Pokorni on plagiarism allegations surrounding President Schmitt</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/quotable-zoltan-pokorni-on-plagiarism-allegations-surrounding-president-schmitt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/quotable-zoltan-pokorni-on-plagiarism-allegations-surrounding-president-schmitt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yes. Immediately.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Students stage protest against higher education laws</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/students-stage-protest-against-higher-education-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120216/students-stage-protest-against-higher-education-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The student organisation Student Network called on the government to withdraw legislation allocating state-funded places in higher education by Monday, at the end of a protest against the new laws on Wednesday evening. Richard Walter, a spokesman for the student group told MTI’s correspondent at the site of the protest that the group will &#8220;put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klubrádió frequency bid was “unfair”, says radio chief</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/klubradio-frequency-bid-was-unfair-says-radio-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/klubradio-frequency-bid-was-unfair-says-radio-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tender invited for the frequency of Hungary’s talk radio Klubradio was unfair, the station’s editor-in-chief said at an informal event of foreign correspondents working in Brussels on Wednesday. Hungary’s National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) set in the tender a new criteria of 60 percent music content for the winner whereas the station became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy Minister Matolcsy, seen as political dead man, rises again</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/economy-minister-matolcsy-seen-as-political-dead-man-rises-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/economy-minister-matolcsy-seen-as-political-dead-man-rises-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although considered by most to have the least certain future in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán&#8217;s cabinet, Economy Minster György Matolcsy has made a rebound, and is now considered one of the ministers in a stronger position, following a speech held at a party conference in Eger last week that saw the minister applauded. Widely considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: Mária Schmidt on Germany&#8217;s problems</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/quotable-maria-schmidt-on-germanys-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/quotable-maria-schmidt-on-germanys-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Speech is a lot less free in today’s Germany than it used to be in Hungary during Kádár’s last decade.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former Free Democrat leader Gábor Kuncze seen returning to politics</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/former-free-democrat-leader-gabor-kuncze-seen-returning-to-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/former-free-democrat-leader-gabor-kuncze-seen-returning-to-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Free Democrat leader Gábor Kuncze is poised to return to the Hungarian political arena as head of Szabadelvű Polgári Egyesület (Liberal Civil Union), an organization founded in 2009 by leading former SZDSZ politicians, conservative weekly Heti Válasz reports. Kuncze said there are no plans to make the Union into a political party, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz, Socialists seen benefiting from shrinking pool of undecided voters in new Ipsos poll</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/main-parties-edge-up-in-ipsos-poll-as-undecided-camp-shrinks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/main-parties-edge-up-in-ipsos-poll-as-undecided-camp-shrinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ratio of undecided voters in Hungary still remains larger than that of the committed camp, though it has shrunk to the benefit of both ruling party Fidesz and its main Socialist opposition rival, pollster Ipsos said on Wednesday. Fidesz saw its support rise to 18 percent from 16 among all voters while backing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán said planning to &#8220;let go&#8221; Schmitt; Foreign Minister Martonyi seen as leading candidate to replace scandal-tainted state President</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/orban-said-planning-to-let-go-schmitt-foreign-minister-martonyi-said-leading-candidate-to-replace-scandal-tainted-state-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/orban-said-planning-to-let-go-schmitt-foreign-minister-martonyi-said-leading-candidate-to-replace-scandal-tainted-state-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is considering forcing out state President Pál Schmitt and replacing him with Foreign Minister János Martonyi, Népszava reported on Tuesday. According to the left-wing daily, Orbán spoke of &#8220;letting go&#8221; Schmitt last week in a closed session of Fidesz lawmakers in Eger. Since becoming embroiled in a scandal involving charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European lawmakers discussing resolution against Hungary</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/european-lawmakers-discussing-resolution-against-hungary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20120215/european-lawmakers-discussing-resolution-against-hungary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European parliamentary deputies are still discussing what a proposed resolution against Hungary tabled for a vote this week should contain, Hannes Swoboda, leader of the European Socialists, told a press conference on Tuesday. Swoboda said that while some proponents of the resolution had suggested immediately invoking Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty, it was likelier [...]]]></description>
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