REPORT: Country Considers Internet Tax
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is considering a new tax on phone calls and Internet usage which could yield up to 50 billion forints ($221.38 million) a...
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is considering a new tax on phone calls and Internet usage which could yield up to 50 billion forints ($221.38 million) a...
AP | Posted 04.06.2012
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian police say they have captured a man suspected of fatally hacking four of his relatives with a machete and injuring...
AP | PABLO GORONDI | Posted 03.26.2012
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- After 76 days, Gabor Rakonczay – isolated and incommunicado for nearly 50 of those after his canoe capsized – has bec...
Vivian Norris | Posted 04.26.2012
The snow and the Danube and the golden domes and the hot chocolate...the Gellert Baths, the sour cream pancakes, dumpling soups, peach nectar, river f...
BootsnAll | Posted 04.13.2012
Staying at a wine hotel means everything you need is within a short walk from your room.
Posted 04.11.2012
Good news: as far as Hungarian officials are concerned, Brad Pitt has no ties to illegal arms traffickers. Back in October, a Hungarian Anti-Terror...
Jake Blumgart | Posted 04.10.2012
Across Eastern and Central Europe, emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates around abortion and other reproductive services, even in largely secular nations like Hungary.
Posted 02.07.2012
The cold snap currently freezing Europe in its tracks -- halting commutes, breaking dams and leaving many stuck at home -- has continued its drive wes...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 03.12.2012
Governments, opposition heads, declared or undeclared candidates for this election or that, European leaders on the right as well as the left, what is going on in Budapest concerns them all.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.12.2012
Let's make 2012 the year we get smart about taxes, and tax less of those things we want more of, like jobs and income, and more of the things we want less of, like health damaging sugars. You can have your cake, just pay for it.
AP | By PABLO GORONDI | Posted 01.06.2012
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Fitch downgraded Hungary's credit rating to junk status on Friday, citing a standoff between the government and international len...
Daniel Wagner | Posted 03.04.2012
Democracy's greatest challenge is to demonstrate that what may emerge from the process of transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy is a fully functional, truly representative political system that improves living standards, raises incomes, and reduces poverty.
AP | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 12.22.2011
WARSAW, Poland -- When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was sh...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 02.20.2012
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Wednesday downgraded Hungary's credit rating to "junk" level because of worries about proposed policy changes re...
Reuters | Posted 02.20.2012
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian software company unveiled what it said was the world's first bronze statue of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs Wednesd...
Vivian Norris | Posted 02.11.2012
The United States, and in fact, the rest of the world, especially the fear-driven crisis-mongering media and markets, could learn a few things by slowing down, realizing it takes time to build healthy economies, especially such a new one as the European Union.
The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 12.12.2011
It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold...
Posted 12.08.2011
The passing of Steve Jobs left the world stunned. The Apple co-founder that introduced us to such revolutionary products such as the iPod, the iPad an...
Doug Bandow | Posted 02.06.2012
Religious repression typically occurs in authoritarian regimes. But it appears that European democracies are not immune from the virus. Unfortunately, Hungary has adopted legislation which undermines this most basic liberty.
BootsnAll | Posted 01.06.2012
While the best known valleys can be expensive to visit, there are plenty of emerging and unexpected wine destinations where a vineyard vacation can be surprisingly cheap.
AP | Posted 12.23.2011
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Tens of thousands of protesters have attended a rally expressing their opposition to the policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban....
Robert Auerbach | Posted 12.18.2011
On the same day I testified on Capitol Hill about the terrible record for transparency and corrupt records at the Federal Reserve, its chairman, Ben Bernanke, gave a strong opposing view before the Joint Economic Committee.
Mark C. Miller | Posted 12.16.2011
After shifting toward multiparty democracy and a market-oriented economy, Hungarian citizens have plenty to eat and the hunger that plagued them for centuries appears to be a thing of the past.
Joseph K. Grieboski | Posted 12.07.2011
From Brussels to Budapest, Moscow to Vienna, Europe has been the source of considerable legislative undermining of the fundamental right of freedom of religion and belief.
Donald Blinken | Posted 09.30.2011
As Greece works itself out of financial crisis, it should look to Hungary fifteen years ago for part of the answer. Far too large a segment of the Greek economy remains locked up in public hands.
Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012