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The Brief History of the Week
The Budapest Times is unrivalled among English-language print publications in the capital for its coverage of the week’s most important national stories, whether they be economic, political, cultural, sporting or among the hundreds of other happenings that go on daily in a major European city. Here, in one concise package, we present some...
"They sow the wind and harvest the whirlwind”*
Author(s): New Europe ukraine_plane.jpg The situation around the downed Malaysian airliner becomes somehow more clear and responsibilities should be attributed to irresponsible locals encouraged by alcohol and emotions, rather to any of the major powers involved. The incident gave the opportunity for a propaganda “war” for few days...
War in Ukraine: The turn of the tide
THE Ukrainian flag flies again over Sloviansk, a former stronghold of eastern Ukraine’s separatists. Succumbing to some punishing shelling, the rebels retreated on July 5th, leaving behind a city blighted with bullet holes and bombed-out buildings. In areas they had vacated, unexploded mortars lay wedged into the asphalt.After ending its...
“Our nation needs heroes like Munkácsy“
Imre Pákh: We know where Munkácsy came from and what kind of fame he reached thanks to his God-given talent and perseverance Imre Pákh, a Hungarian-American art collector, has the world’s biggest privately owned collection of some 50 paintings by the great Hungarian artist Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900). In the context of the unofficial...
EU ministers discuss “phase three” of Russia sanctions
Author(s): Dan Alexe train_ukraine_crash_dog.jpg EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to decide new measures against Russia, with Britain and some other countries demanding much tougher measures. The Foreign Affairs Council meeting will be followed by the EU-Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting, starting at 16.00. Further to the EU...
Dilemma for Hungary
In respect to the Ukrainian conflict, it can be noticed that the further a nation is situated from the Russian bear, the more willingness it shows to take it on. The USA is in an easy situation. Not even considering that they have a large interest in not letting the case rest, they do not need to worry on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean that...
Conflict in Ukraine is very uncomfortable for Budapest
Natural gasdependence of European countries on Russia (Russian gas as a percentage of total pipelineimports)Countries from top to bottom: Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Netherlands, Ireland Even if the European Union is only planning economic sanctions in the third round of...
Joining EU may be a false dream
Gabi is 26 years old, she was born in the Carpathian Ukraine and she grew up there. Even today she calls the territory a “Mecca of tolerance” with love in her voice, because so many ethnic groups are living there that in the end everybody is a minority. “The current territory of Ukraine belonged to five different countries in...
Tsar Putin and his Crimea theft
The Földessy couple on the conflict in Ukraine: “Noeconomic sanctions will stop Putin.” The world had learned only now that the conflict had reached this stage what kind of influence Russia had on Ukraine, she says. Moscow had not been prepared for the friendly resistance that was the right way to react, that was why it had answered...
Nuclear Rising
For decades Poland’s nuclear power ambitions lay in ruins. Now, after years of neglect and exhaustive debate, it appears the atom will play a key role in the nation’s energy future by Jacek Ciesnowski A hole in the ground and some dilapidated ruins. That’s all there is left of Poland’s nuclear program. Between 1982-1990,...
