Word: orban
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...recently renewed my subscription to a newsmagazine called TIME. Recently, however, I have been receiving weekly editions of the journal of the Obama Adoration Society. When will deliveries of my newsmagazine resume? George Orban, Sydney...
...wave of revenge attacks, Balogh says, would have "terrible consequences" in a country that has become a racial powder keg and has been hit hard by the global economic crisis. "There are parties that are saying that the Roma [are] to blame for the problems in the country," says Orban Kolompar, president of the National Roma Council, who believes the economic downturn will lead to increased support for far-right parties with anti-Roma platforms in both European parliamentary elections this year and Hungarian national elections next. "Voters who are disillusioned [by the crisis] may join them...
...Socialist-led government. For his part, Mayor Demszky blames right-wing politicians, particularly members of the Alliance of Young Democrats (Fidesz), Hungary's main opposition party, for inciting the hooligans. Demszky singles out Fidesz M.P. Maria Wittner, who, he says, uttered provocative rhetoric at demonstrations; and party President Viktor Orban, Hungary's Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002, for saying a week before the current crisis broke out that he wants to avoid using the word revolt but that "resistance is an acceptable way of democratic politics." Hungary's political scene has been tense for months. After re-election...
...premier of Bavaria, where many Sudeten Germans settled, and his wife is from a Sudeten family. "The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans cannot be justified under any circumstances." In Austria, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said the Czech government should voluntarily compensate the Sudeten Germans. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also joined the fray. Noting that tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians had also been expelled, from what is now Slovakia, he said: "This was another shameful event in the 20th century where Hungarians were on the painful, losing side...
...reaching than others of its kind. A European Union report last year noted the "appearance of discrimination" in its provisions. But the main problem is how the legislation was sold. "Now we shall realize the reunification of the Hungarian nation across borders," said right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban when he introduced the measure last year. This month he declared that the law will succeed despite those "who want to sprinkle salt on the wound torn open 80 years ago." Slovakia, not surprisingly, bridled at such talk. Earlier this month, its parliament overwhelmingly approved a motion protesting...