Re: futurlab hungary

2021-07-03 Thread János Sugár
Title: Re:futurlab hungary dear zeljko, patrice et al,     sorry for the late reaction, and another sorry for the lots of urls, but the illiberal reality produces every day something new and depressing: Orban's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality https

Re: futurlab hungary

2021-04-29 Thread Željko Blaće
Hi Janos It seems there is lots of bad news coming from Budapest these days but I wonder which part of this is worse... I am wild guessing mostly for Chinese students? It is a public university with good reputation from what it seems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudan_University hence it is

futurlab hungary

2021-04-28 Thread János Sugár
Title: futurlab hungary Hungary's parliament passed legislation on Tuesday setting up foundations to take over the running of universities and cultural institutions in a move critics say extends the ideological imprint of the ruling right-wing government. Orban's Fidesz party, which has a two

Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition

2020-04-23 Thread Janos Sugar
BRUSSELS - Authoritarian-minded leaders around the world have used the coronavirus emergency to consolidate power. In Europe, the governments of Poland and Hungary have done that and more. They have managed to turn the crisis into a windfall and punish their political opponents, too. In a hasty

Frida and Billy in Hungary

2018-08-28 Thread János Sugár
ng audience. Billy Elliot has been on the program for two years, with over 100,000 viewers so far. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-culture/communist-frida-kahlo-swept-up-in-debate-on-cultural-change-in-hungary-idUSKBN1KT174 # distributed via : no commercial use without permissi

banning gender studies in Hungary

2018-08-25 Thread János Sugár
Title: banning gender studies in Hungary BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will stop financing gender studies university courses, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Tuesday, marking one of the first concrete steps in a cultural shift signaled last month. https

Re: on Hungary

2018-04-13 Thread János Sugár
Title: Re:on Hungary Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant 'atmosphere of fear' Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán's election victory this week /.../ The journalists believe the anti-migrant messages

Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands

2017-08-25 Thread János Sugár
Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands after outgoing Dutch ambassador gave critical interview about Hungarian gov. https://thehungaryjournal.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/hungary-recalls-its-ambassador-from-the-netherlands/ https://twitter.com/LuiningMichiel?ref_src=twsrc

Evento cancelado: E-ticket, Hungary - seg 24 jul 2017 16:30 - 17:30 (BRT) (nettim...@kein.org)

2017-07-24 Thread lucleao
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E-ticket, Hungary

2017-07-24 Thread János Sugár
A teenager discovered that the brand new website of the public transit authority in Budapest would allow you to edit the price you paid for your tickets, so that purchasers could give themselves massive discounts on their travel, and when he told the authority about it, they had him arrested

Re: Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-25 Thread Brian Holmes
On 06/18/2017 04:05 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: We speak rather arrogantly in the West, treating Liberalism as unassailably good, yet the superficiality of our MSM driven discourse rarely acknowledges that the desire for a conservative community is not only a natural and acceptable desire, and

Re: Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
y in a given country - e.g. the conservative "we don't want > unlimited refugees from countries where no real vetting can occur" > that is just recently begun to be prosecuted by the UN, e.g.: Ah, found the link I was looking for: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-14/eu-s

Re: Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:56:46PM +0200, János Sugár wrote: > The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental > organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil > society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European > Commission. The Hungarian Civ

Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread János Sugár
The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil disobedience. The approved

The crushing of independent press in Hungary

2016-10-15 Thread János Sugár
Hungary's Left-Wing Paper Suspended Days After Breaking News http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/08/world/europe/ap-eu-hungary-media.html?_r=0 Protests in Hungary at closure of main leftwing opposition newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/09/protests-in-hungary-at-closure

nettime The Economist on Hungary: Curse like an oligarch

2015-02-10 Thread nettime's_open_mic
begun to show signs of strain. Until recently Mr Simicska was one of the most reclusive businessmen in Hungary. He was once Fidesz's financial mastermind, and served as head of the Hungarian Tax Authority under the first Fidesz government in the late 1990s. Kozgep, his massive holding company, has

nettime CSIS on Hungary

2014-11-24 Thread Janos Sugar
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): /.../ In the case of Hungary, many of these trends have toxically blended to produce an increasingly authoritarian regime. Over the last decade, Hungary has maintained strong economic and political ties with Russia. Russia is Hungary's

Re: nettime meanwhile in Hungary

2014-06-14 Thread Tjebbe van Tijen
Janos that is an awful lot of detailed information on the electoral system changes practices in HUngary in these two simple links. The details - necessary as they are - swallow up an outsider without enough focus on the Magyar Dystopia of the 21st century. Did I miss your own comment on all

nettime Hungary in focus

2014-02-16 Thread allan siegel
http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/hungary2013.html Hungary in focus In recent years, Hungary has been a constant concern for anyone interested in European politics and Eurozine has published extensively on different aspects of the Hungarian situation. Ahead of the Hungarian