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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Some in the former Soviet satellite now part of NATO and the EU warn that Moscow is intent on reasserting influence, but others see Russia as a useful investor and lucrative market. There's a museum in Budapest called the House of Terror. It has a metal awning with the word "terror" carved out of it, and when the sun is high, the people below step on terror, pass through terror, because the...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Hungary's Magyar Telekom announced Tuesday that it has sold Orbitel, its fully-owned Bulgarian subsidiary, to Bulgarian company Spectrum Net AD for EUR 5 M. "Magyar Telekom decided to exit the Bulgarian alternative retail telecommunication business and focus its operations on businesses where it sees more lucrative prospects," MTel said in a statement on the website of the Budapest Stock...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Budapest- Hungarian energy firm MOL plans to build a new gas processing plant in Pakistan at a cost of 30 to 50 million dollars, chief executive Gyorgy Mosonyi said Monday. He told the state news agency MTI the plant would process up to 20,000 barrel...
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The European Alliance of National Movements (AENM), the coalition of far-right parties formed last month in Budapest, has failed in its an attempt to get its hands on European Parliament cash, as the jumble of reactionary rightists did not manage to file the application on time. The alliance, which includes the UK's BNP, France's Front National and Hungary's Jobbik, says it wants its share of the around...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sydney - An 88-year-old Australian citizen accused of killing a Jewish teenager in his native Hungary in 1944 learned Thursday he had lost his legal battle to prevent extradition to face a war-crimes trial in Budapest. The Australian government appro...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
FRESH EXTRADITION proceedings have been brought against an Irishman wanted in Hungary in connection with a road incident causing the deaths of two children in Budapest in April 2000.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
New democracies that embraced the free market are facing their deepest crisis after years of rapid growth The large inflatable columns toppled one after the other in Berlin on Monday night in a play on democracy's chain reaction in 1989. Twenty years on in Budapest, Daniel Bebesy has a gloomier domino theory. "Western banks and business have made huge profits in this region for years. Now there's...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
During his visit to Budapest, Armenian leader met with Hungarian parliament speaker, Prime Minister and cardinal.
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"Reflections of an ethical business hack" (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a week’s time I’ll be in Bulgaria speaking at a conference on corporate responsibility. Then just over a week later in Budapest at a similar gig. It seems an appropriate time, exactly twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, to consider what role responsible business can play in what we now call Central and Eastern Europe. In the last couple of years I’ve...
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aindreas.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Berliners, Germans and everyone is celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall 20 yrs ago on Monday. Deutsche Welle has an amazing round up of events that lead to it's fall. Including pieces on the Museum of Terror in Budapest, Hungary. It's must read stuff. Official events begin Monday 9th November ...
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Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
. "Für die Machtclique um Krenz war die Maueröffnung kein Akt der Befreiung der Bevölkerung, sondern ein Akt der Gegenrevolution, der ihre Macht durch Dampfablassen aus dem revolutionären Druckkessel verlängern sollte. (...) So wurde die Maueröffnung nicht der krönende Akt einer revolutionären Demokratie, sondern der Reaktion, der die stalinistischen Herrscher...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In Budapest, the Armenian President will lay a wreath to a khachkar commemorating the Armenian Genocide victims.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Tunisia is currently taking part in the 4th edition of the World Science Forum, the international conference series on global science policy, under the theme "Knowledge and Future" which runs from November 5 to 7, 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Budapest - Workers at a General Motors factory in Hungary will not heed calls from German peers for industrial action following General Motors' decision to hold on to its European subsidiary Opel, local union leader Jozsef Vadasz told the state news ...
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patrickguillard | 02/24/2009
European Mobility Week Prize 2009 was awarded yesterday to Budapest, by the Commissioner for Science and Research. This award is granted on the base of the evaluation of efforts set up to make people take awareness of the pollution due to the traffic and on the base of sustainable solutions proposals during this week.
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