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		<title>Fidesz sees new left-wing plot to colonize Hungary in Amnesty Int&#8217;l report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International&#8217;s 2012 human rights report chapter on Hungary presents a clearly distorted and biased image of Hungary, the ruling Fidesz party said on Thursday. AI said Hungary&#8217;s basic law is discriminative, the Roma are intimidated by far right groups and the media beholden to political influence, among other concerns. Fidesz rejected the report &#8220;in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán closes the curtain on disputes over Fidesz-authored Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The era of disputes surrounding the constitution is behind us, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after meeting head of the constitutional court Peter Paczolay on Thursday. Paczolay said it was important that parliament should incorporate the top court&#8217;s decisions in its legislative work. Orban said disputes were closed in Hungary regarding the basic law, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialists named Katalin, Imre and Ferenc deny leaking Gyurcsány speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eye-witness disclosed the first names of three senior Socialist politicians he said were responsible for leaking then prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany&#8217;s famous 2006 &#8220;lie speech&#8221;, the weekly Heti Valasz reported on Thursday. Balint Szabo, now a member of Gyurcsany&#8217;s Democratic Coalition party and earlier a regional Socialist politician, told Heti Valasz that he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: Hungarian Socialist Party on gov&#8217;t plan to take over Margaret Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Only the future will reveal whether Margaret Island will remain a recreational park or become some kind of &#8216;offshore island.&#8217;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Three opposition MPs refuse to pay fines over breaching Parliament rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three opposition MPs fined on separate occasions by Speaker László Kövér are refusing to pay up, as they argue that the penalty amounts to an infringement of their right to free expression. In response, the Parliament&#8217;s Office said it had told the MPs to pay the fines within 15 days or else the office will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialist mayor calls government plan to take control of Margaret Island &#8220;illegal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government plans to transfer control of Budapest’s Margaret Island from the 13th District to the city in a move that district mayor József Tóth yesterday decried as “unreasonable and illegal”. Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics submitted a bill to Parliament last Friday under which the island would be under the direct control of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International report criticizes Hungary&#8217;s treatment of Roma, refugees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite some commitments from the government to prevent intimidation, Roma continued to be subjected to racist abuse and violent assaults. The trial of the suspects accused of attacks against Roma in 2008 and 2009 (during which six people, including a child, were killed) was delayed. One of the defence lawyers resigned in October after it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jews ask US to keep up pressure on Hungary</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/jews-ask-us-to-keep-up-pressure-on-hungary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 07:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen Jewish organisations sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urging him “to keep the issue of intolerance and discrimination squarely on the US-Hungarian bilateral agenda”.]]></description>
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		<title>Bajnai pledges to impose &#8220;rational tax-burden sharing&#8221; on the rich if elected</title>
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		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/bajnai-pledges-to-impose-rational-tax-burden-sharing-on-the-rich-if-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The E14-PM electoral alliance would introduce a fairer tax regime if elected into government next year, the leader of the alliance said on Wednesday. Gordon Bajnai, a former prime minister blamed the government of Viktor Orban for going back on earlier promises of radical tax cuts and in fact introducing a flat-tax regime that favoured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán proposes range of new taxes to ensure Hungary freed from EU deficit procedure</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/orban-proposes-range-of-new-taxes-to-ensure-hungary-freed-from-eu-deficit-procedure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/orban-proposes-range-of-new-taxes-to-ensure-hungary-freed-from-eu-deficit-procedure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter containing measures to further reduce Hungary&#8217;s budget deficit has been sent to the European Commission, including a proposal for tax hikes, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a press conference after an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday. Orban said that &#8220;if the rules of mathematics still mean anything&#8221; Hungary should exit the excessive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz slaps self on the back as Hungarian wage growth accelerates in March</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/fidesz-slaps-self-on-the-back-as-hungarian-wage-growth-accelerates-in-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/fidesz-slaps-self-on-the-back-as-hungarian-wage-growth-accelerates-in-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Average gross wages in Hungary grew an annual 3.2 percent in March after rising 2.7 percent in February, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. Gross wage growth accelerated from a low base a year earlier. In the business sector, it went up 2.7 percent year on year in March, up from 1.2 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More and more Hungarians are leaving to live abroad, statistics office says</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/more-and-more-hungarians-are-leaving-to-live-abroad-statistics-office-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/more-and-more-hungarians-are-leaving-to-live-abroad-statistics-office-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more Hungarians are leaving the country, according to immigration data from recipient countries released by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) on Wednesday. According to KSH data, 230,000 Hungarians officially resided in other European countries in 2012. One third of that number was reported from Germany, 20 percent from the UK, and 13 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 budget must be changed if Hungary is to exit excessive deficit procedure</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130523/2013-budget-must-be-changed-if-hungary-is-to-exit-excessive-deficit-procedure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 budget will have to be amended to ensure the lifting of the EU excessive deficit procedure against Hungary, an economy ministry official said on Wednesday. State secretary in charge of tax and finances Gabor Orban told lawmakers the amendment would be necessary &#8220;in order to get the European Commission and the European Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz to tout administration&#8217;s achievements in conference road show</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/fidesz-to-tout-administrations-achievements-in-conference-road-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling Fidesz party is launching a series of conferences to promote the government&#8217;s achievements, Fidesz lawmaker Zsolt Nyitrai said on Wednesday. The conference series dubbed &#8220;Hungary is Doing Better&#8221; will involve ministers and state secretaries traveling to different parts of the country, he said. The series will start in Nyiregyhaza in the north-east this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navracsics sends Reding &#8220;reassuring response&#8221; on reappointment of judges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics has sent a &#8220;reassuring response&#8221; to EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding concerning the matter of the reappointment of judges sent into retirement, Magyar Nemzet daily said on Wednesday. At the end of April Reding urged Hungary to fulfil a European Union court order regarding the reappointment of judges sent into retirement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSZP suspected of compiling illegal voter database, authorities investigate</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/mszp-suspected-of-compiling-illegal-voter-database-authorities-investigate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/mszp-suspected-of-compiling-illegal-voter-database-authorities-investigate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary&#8217;s data protection authority NAIH has launched an investigation into the opposition Socialist Party&#8217;s signature-collection campaign that aims to drum up support for reducing the VAT rate, Magyar Nemzet daily said on Wednesday. The authority started its procedure after an private individual reported the Socialists on suspicion of building up a voter database under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary pledges &#8220;maximum support&#8221; for integrated EU energy market</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/hungary-pledges-maximum-support-for-integrated-eu-energy-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/hungary-pledges-maximum-support-for-integrated-eu-energy-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary supports creation of an integrated European energy market, state secretary in charge of EU affairs Eniko Gyori said on Tuesday, but added that prices should not be liberalised before that market functions efficiently. Gyori spoke in Brussels after a meeting of her European counterparts, and said that participants were in agreement that energy prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz grants tobacconists 10% profit guarantee, permission to sell ice cream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parliament on Tuesday passed an amendment which ensures a 10 percent retail sales margin on tobacco products while also allowing tobacconists to sell ice-cream. Under the government-sponsored amendment, the national tobacco distribution company or its employees can sell tobacco products in places where no concessions have been awarded until a new tender is called. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobbik MP accidentally kills 93-year-old woman on bicycle in traffic mishap</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/jobbik-mp-accidentally-kills-93-year-old-woman-on-bicycle-in-traffic-mishap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly woman died of injuries caused when she was struck by a car driven by Jobbik MP Gábor Ferenczi on Tuesday morning in Ajka. Veszprém county police are examining the circumstances of the accident. The Jobbik caucus said Ferenczi did not see the 93-year-old woman as she was pushing her bicycle across the road, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán may have to apologize for &#8220;German tanks&#8221; comment, newspaper says</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/orban-may-have-to-apologize-for-german-tanks-comment-newspaper-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130522/orban-may-have-to-apologize-for-german-tanks-comment-newspaper-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viktor Orbán will have to make excuses for his reference to “German tanks” and publicly apologise to German Chancellor Angela Merkel if she so requires, a politician close to the prime minister told Népszabadság on Tuesday. The source noted that Orbán had openly referred to Hungary&#8217;s Nazi occupation, a particularly sensitive era in German history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition MP says proposed election law tips the balance in Fidesz&#8217;s favor</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/opposition-mp-says-proposed-election-law-tips-the-balance-in-fideszs-favor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/opposition-mp-says-proposed-election-law-tips-the-balance-in-fideszs-favor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic alliance&#8217;s recent proposal to revamp Hungary&#8217;s election campaign financing is tailored to its own advantage, an opposition lawmaker said on Tuesday. The proposal fails to solve the area&#8217;s key problems and make campaign financing transparent by introducing, say, open campaign accounts, Dialogue for Hungary (PM) lawmaker Gergely Karacsony said. Under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian government: We refuse to be a pawn in Germany&#8217;s political battles</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/hungarian-government-we-refuse-to-be-a-pawn-in-germanys-political-battles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/hungarian-government-we-refuse-to-be-a-pawn-in-germanys-political-battles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hungarian government firmly rejects Hungary being drawn into the German election campaign, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry noted in a statement that several leading German politicians, among them Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, had recently condemned Prime Minister Viktor Orban for comments made in connection with Germany. Peer Steinbruck, the Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK tobacco firm may call off HUF 15 billion investment over profit guarantee</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/uk-tobacco-firm-may-call-off-huf-15-billion-investment-over-profit-guarantee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/uk-tobacco-firm-may-call-off-huf-15-billion-investment-over-profit-guarantee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British American Tobacco&#8217;s Hungarian unit on Tuesday said a bill that would guarantee a minimum margin on retail tobacco sales could force it to postpone investments of about 15 billion forints (EUR 52m) planned for 2013 and 2014. The guaranteed margin is expected to cause Hungary&#8217;s tobacco market to contract, threatening the 400 workplaces at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official proposes rule to protect people living near pubs from sidewalk smokers</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/official-proposes-rule-to-protect-people-living-near-pubs-from-sidewalk-smokers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/official-proposes-rule-to-protect-people-living-near-pubs-from-sidewalk-smokers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ombudsman for fundamental rights has proposed that Hungary&#8217;s smoking ban should be amended to ensure protection to non-smokers living in the vicinity of bars and restaurants whose patrons are only allowed to smoke outside those facilities. Mate Szabo said the Hungarian law was among Europe&#8217;s most up-to-date but some non-smokers, whom it was designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High court throws out ombudsman&#8217;s appeal to annul constitutional amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/high-court-throws-out-ombudsmans-appeal-to-annul-constitutional-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/high-court-throws-out-ombudsmans-appeal-to-annul-constitutional-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top court&#8217;s decision to throw out the ombudsman&#8217;s plea to annul fourth amendment brings the debate over the constitution to a close, the Fidesz parliamentary group leader said on Tuesday. &#8220;From now on, no one can bring into doubt the legality of the approval of the fourth amendment,&#8221; Antal Rogan said in a statement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary premier risks more isolation with Nazi comparison</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/hungary-premier-risks-more-isolation-with-nazi-comparison/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/hungary-premier-risks-more-isolation-with-nazi-comparison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chancellery didn’t comment on Orban’s remarks. Gergely Prohle, a deputy state secretary in Budapest, said Merkel was defending Hungary in the debate and that Orban was commenting on Steinbrueck’s analogy, state news service MTI reported.Still, setting Germany’s role in the EU debate on Hungary alongside aggression under Adolf Hitler met with derision among German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Ministry says German press misinterpreted Orbán&#8217;s Nazi comments</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/foreign-ministry-says-german-press-misinterpreted-orbans-nazi-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/foreign-ministry-says-german-press-misinterpreted-orbans-nazi-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by Germany&#8217;s Spiegel Online, according to which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel of using Nazi methods, was incorrect, a senior Foreign Ministry official told MTI on Monday evening. Deputy state secretary Gergely Prohle noted that Peer Steinbrueck, the Social Democrats&#8217; candidate in the autumn elections, raised the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPs set to vote on tobacconist profits, campaign finance, background checks</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/mps-set-to-vote-on-tobacconist-profits-campaign-finance-background-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/mps-set-to-vote-on-tobacconist-profits-campaign-finance-background-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary&#8217;s parliament will start a three-day session on Tuesday to vote on new rules for national security background checks, the sales margin of tobacconists and campaign financing. On Tuesday Parliament is scheduled to approve the State Audit Office&#8217;s report on 2012. Lawmakers are expected to extend the factors considered in national security background checks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. report on Hungarian religious freedom condemns anti-Semitism, criticizes church laws</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/u-s-report-on-hungarian-religious-freedom-condemns-anti-semitism-criticizes-church-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/u-s-report-on-hungarian-religious-freedom-condemns-anti-semitism-criticizes-church-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The constitution and most laws and policies generally protect religious freedom. However, the government imposed restrictions that affected minority religious groups, and the government’s respect for religious freedom declined during the year. A new religion law, which took effect January 1, provides for freedom of conscience and religion, but deregisters more than 350 previously recognized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz mocks weekend protesters with &#8220;left-wing mafia&#8221; banner</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/fidesz-mocks-weekend-protesters-with-left-wing-mafia-banner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/fidesz-mocks-weekend-protesters-with-left-wing-mafia-banner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several hundred demonstrators who turned up outside the Fidesz headquarters in Lendvay utca on Saturday were greeted by a huge banner bearing the legend “The left-wing mafia together”, with pictures of Attila Mesterházy, Ferenc Gyurcsány, Gordon Bajnai and Tamás Portik next to each other. The demonstration was organised by the Democratic Coalition in protest against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán pledges to help doctors and teachers, warns of tax hike for multinats</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/orban-pledges-to-help-doctors-and-teachers-warns-of-higher-taxes-on-multinats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130521/orban-pledges-to-help-doctors-and-teachers-warns-of-higher-taxes-on-multinats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation of general practitioners will be improved next year, and the government intends to launch a career-for-life model project for teachers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday morning interview on Kossuth Rádió. Orbán also spoke of launching a demographic project, which he said will be necessary in response to economic growth, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: Focus Online editorial on Orbán&#8217;s attack on Angela Merkel</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/quotable-focus-online-editorial-on-orbans-attack-on-angela-merkel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/quotable-focus-online-editorial-on-orbans-attack-on-angela-merkel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Politicians and the media on both sides are currently puzzled as to why Orbán has deemed this verbal attack necessary. Diplomatic skills are generally not one of the Hungarian Prime Minister&#8217;s great strengths.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Schulz says he was misquoted on &#8220;Hungary wants to count the Jews&#8221; comment</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/schulz-says-he-was-misquoted-on-hungary-wants-to-count-the-jews-comment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/schulz-says-he-was-misquoted-on-hungary-wants-to-count-the-jews-comment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has demanded a correction in Belgian newspaper Metro which, according to Schulz, incorrectly quoted him saying that &#8220;Hungary wants to count the Jews,&#8221; his office said on Saturday. Schulz&#8217;s office told MTI that his spokesman Armin Machmer had called on the newspaper to print a correction. In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue for Hungary calls labor code the &#8220;greatest crime,&#8221; demands changes</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/dialogue-for-hungary-calls-labor-code-the-greatest-crime-demands-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/dialogue-for-hungary-calls-labor-code-the-greatest-crime-demands-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition Dialogue for Hungary (PM) has called on the government to amend Hungary&#8217;s labour code and related laws, as well as to work out an action plan, board member Bence Tordai told a press conference on Saturday. Tordai said that &#8220;the Orban government&#8217;s measures have impacted employees the most&#8221; and called Hungary&#8217;s new labour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government plans to strip more than 100 communist informers of pensions</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/government-plans-to-strip-more-than-100-communist-informers-of-pensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/government-plans-to-strip-more-than-100-communist-informers-of-pensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government is planning to deprive over 100 former Communist informers of their pension allowance, state secretary at the Justice Ministry Bence Retvari told commercial Hir Television on Sunday. An ad-hoc committee within the ministry probed some 1,000 individuals who had been recognised with state awards before 1989, and therefore were entitled to a pension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz says new election rules are designed to prevent interference in results</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/socialists-slam-fidesz-for-preparing-new-election-rules-in-total-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130520/socialists-slam-fidesz-for-preparing-new-election-rules-in-total-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New amendments to the election procedures law will represent added guarantees that prevent the possibility of influencing election results, Gergely Gulyas of the ruling Fidesz said on Saturday. The amendments, submitted to Parliament on Saturday, have been prepared in line with recommendations by rights organisations including Transparency International and Eotvos Karoly Institute, Gulyas said. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidesz seeks to amend election law to ban foreign support for parties</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130519/fidesz-seeks-to-amend-election-law-to-ban-foreign-support-for-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130519/fidesz-seeks-to-amend-election-law-to-ban-foreign-support-for-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 06:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling parties plan to completely revamp Hungary&#8217;s election campaign financing system, MP Bence Retvari of the Christian Democrats said on Saturday. The state will provide 1 million forints budget support to individual candidates in constituencies and maximum nearly 600 million forints to parties that have candidates in all constituencies, Retvari said. The individuals will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable: Viktor Orbán on Angela Merkel&#8217;s efforts to discipline Hungary</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/quotable-viktor-orban-on-angela-merkels-efforts-to-discipline-hungary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/quotable-viktor-orban-on-angela-merkels-efforts-to-discipline-hungary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Germans already sent the cavalry once in the form of tanks. We would request that they not send them again. It wasn&#8217;t a good idea back then and it didn&#8217;t work.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it that Europe stigmatises modern Hungary?</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/why-is-it-that-europe-stigmatises-modern-hungary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/why-is-it-that-europe-stigmatises-modern-hungary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They do not want to understand – not due to a lack of intellectual aptitude, but due to lack of willingness. They do not want to understand, because they seem to think that it has nothing to do with them, that our concerns are not their concerns. Because the romantic far-away champions of freedom have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demands for apology from European Parliament President Schulz over charges of anti-Semitism in Hungary</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/demands-for-apology-from-european-parliament-president-schulz-over-charges-of-anti-semitism-in-hungary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/demands-for-apology-from-european-parliament-president-schulz-over-charges-of-anti-semitism-in-hungary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hungarian foreign ministry as well as Fidesz members of the European Parliament (EP) on Friday demanded an apology from Martin Schulz, the EP president, for saying in an interview to a Belgian newspaper that &#8220;Hungary wants to count the Jews&#8221;. The Fidesz EP group categorically rejects &#8220;the assertion which is gravely hurtful to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán’s attack on Angela Merkel and Germany</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/orbans-attack-on-angela-merkel-and-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/orbans-attack-on-angela-merkel-and-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big item in the Hungarian media today was an exchange between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Peer Steinbrück, her social democratic rival at the next German election. The scene was a yearly event called WDR Europaforum. WDR stands for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting), based in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The program of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest against government plans for mandatory single teachers’ union</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/protest-against-government-plans-for-mandatory-single-teachers-union/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/protest-against-government-plans-for-mandatory-single-teachers-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unions on Friday protested against government plans to establish a new organisation for representing teachers whose membership will be mandatory. The government&#8217;s move is &#8220;a drive for the total command&#8221; of schools, said a petition of the Democratic Union of Teachers (PDSZ), the Association of History Teachers (TTE) and the Association of Hungarian Teachers (ME). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bajnai says voters to “drive out” government in next year’s election</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/bajnai-says-voters-to-drive-out-government-in-next-years-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/bajnai-says-voters-to-drive-out-government-in-next-years-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters will &#8220;drive out&#8221; the government at elections a year from now, Gordon Bajnai, leader of the electoral alliance E14-PM said at a rally in Miskolc (NE) on Friday. Bajnai said if elected his government would implement a programme of zero corruption, make all state contracts public and without this publicity no state contract would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government begins transfer of state property to local councils, Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/government-begins-transfer-of-state-property-to-local-councils-catholic-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/government-begins-transfer-of-state-property-to-local-councils-catholic-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has drafted a bill for transferring, free-of-charge, state-owned property to local councils and the Catholic Church, the National Development Ministry said on Friday. The bill seeks to award 1,174 properties worth more than 1.2 billion forints (EUR 4.1m) to 419 local councils as well as transferring several churches to the Roman Catholic Church, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Hungary and across Europe, neo-fascists gain disturbing force</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/in-hungary-and-across-europe-neo-fascists-gain-disturbing-force/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130518/in-hungary-and-across-europe-neo-fascists-gain-disturbing-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Hungary News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union’s Parliament has roundly criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for not speaking out against extremist riots, rallies, and speeches, while reports of violence against ethnic minorities increase. Despite Orban’s insistence at the recent 2013 World Jewish Congress that his government is not anti-Semitic, and that he will not tolerate hate, his actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Viktor Orban wanted to he could crush you like an ant, but he won’t, because he’s chill</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/if-viktor-orban-wanted-to-he-could-crush-you-like-an-ant-but-he-wont-because-hes-chill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/if-viktor-orban-wanted-to-he-could-crush-you-like-an-ant-but-he-wont-because-hes-chill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik D'Amato</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among many other things, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said this morning on his weekly radio interview that the widespread allegations of political favoritism in the awarding of tobacco-retailing licenses are misplaced, and that his government is unwilling to postpone the signing of contracts with the winners of tenders to see who gets to sell smokes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobbik says Hungary should focus on opening to eastern markets over EU, slams government over rising debt</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/jobbik-says-hungary-should-focus-on-opening-to-eastern-markets-over-eu-slams-government-over-rising-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/jobbik-says-hungary-should-focus-on-opening-to-eastern-markets-over-eu-slams-government-over-rising-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary should focus on successfully opening its markets to the east instead of &#8220;one-sided dependence on the EU,&#8221; the deputy group leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party said. Janos Volner told the press that instead of the illusion of economic growth based on western growth, the country could finally stand on its own feet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orbán promises pay rise for doctors, teachers as Fidesz vows more cuts to utility prices</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/orban-promises-pay-rise-for-doctors-teachers-as-fidesz-vows-more-cuts-to-utility-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/orban-promises-pay-rise-for-doctors-teachers-as-fidesz-vows-more-cuts-to-utility-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MTI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pay rise for GPs and teachers, and the launch of a demography programme are among the tasks of the upcoming period, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public Kossuth Radio on Friday. Orban said that within the next 12 months, the government plans to improve the situation of GPs who have been gradually losing their resources, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesterházy reportedly says Socialists expect agreement on PM candidate by August</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/mesterhazy-reportedly-says-socialists-expect-agreement-on-pm-candidate-by-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Socialists plan to reach an agreement with the E14-PM electoral alliance on an election programme and then on a candidate for prime minister by August, the leader of the main opposition party told German newspaper Die Welt on Friday. Attila Mesterhazy said in an interview that he would have agreed with the party already, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merkel says Hungary must be guided to &#8220;right path&#8221; within EU</title>
		<link>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/merkel-says-hungary-must-be-guided-to-right-path-within-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politics.hu/20130517/merkel-says-hungary-must-be-guided-to-right-path-within-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every effort should be made to guide Hungary towards the right path, but expelling the country from the EU should not be an option, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor said in Berlin on Thursday. At a Europe forum organised by the public-service broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Merkel said &#8220;there is no need to send the artillery [...]]]></description>
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