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EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
The father of the "new look"
Martin Munkácsi, regarded as one of the pioneers of photojournalism and much acclaimed during his lifetime, died forgotten and poverty-stricken in New York in 1963 of a heart attack while watching a football match. Now, between October 2010 and September 2011, Hungary is paying homage to one of its countrymen with an exhibition at the Ludwig...
During its European presidency, Hungary plans to focus on the integration of some 10 million European Roma who are too often victims of discrimination, starting in Hungary itself.
There are between 400,000 and 600,000 Roma living in Hungary today. That is the fourth largest Roma population in Europe, after Romania, Bulgaria and Spain. After settling in India at the time of the wave of...
"Europe must learn the lessons from the latest mining disaster"
Three months after the tide of red sludge surged from a waste reservoir at the MAL bauxite-aluminium plant in Ajka, 160 km west of Budapest and 80 km from Lake Balaton, the Green Group in the European Parliament is calling for a task force to be set up to draw the pertinent conclusions from the disaster.
At noon on 4...
First arriving in Budapest to study theology in 1997, France Mutombo returned two years later to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It was seeing the poverty in certain areas of the city that led him to embark on humanitarian work. He nevertheless remained in close contact with Hungary, with the aim of increasing awareness among its young people. The Foundation for...
Development education and awareness remain the two major priorities of the some 20 non-governmental organisations concerned with development cooperation in Hungary.
Less than a decade ago, you could count the number of development NGOs on two hands. In 2003 they decided to come together within the HAND platform, the Hungarian Association of NGOs for Development and Humanitarian Aid. Today...
Seven Magyar tribes from the Urals and the Volga decided to settle in the Danube Basin. The year was 900. One hundred years later, the Kingdom of Hungary was born. Istvan, a convert to Catholicism, was crowned king under the name of Saint Etienne.
No sooner born, the Kingdom of Hungary had to face invasion by the Tartars. Ever since then, the history of Hungary has been marked by a series...
Seven years after joining the European Union, Hungary is preparing to take over the presidency. Beginning on 1 January 2010 for six months, it will be a busy presidency as it tackles three issues identified by Budapest as priorities: energy security, EU enlargement to include Croatia, and integration of the Roma. On the latter question, the Hungarian presidency will have the delicate task of...
Tyrol, one of the nine Länder (States) of Austria, has been part of the nation since the middle of the fourteenth century, and yet at all times it has jealously guarded its unique character. There is no doubt that this is largely due to the geography of the region, with its valleys imprisoned by high mountains, which has made it more of a place to travel through than one to settle in....
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
The father of the "new look"
Martin Munkácsi, regarded as one of the pioneers of photojournalism and much acclaimed during his lifetime, died forgotten and poverty-stricken in New York in 1963 of a heart attack while watching a football match. Now, between October 2010 and September 2011, Hungary is paying homage to one of its countrymen with an exhibition at the Ludwig...
During its European presidency, Hungary plans to focus on the integration of some 10 million European Roma who are too often victims of discrimination, starting in Hungary itself.
There are between 400,000 and 600,000 Roma living in Hungary today. That is the fourth largest Roma population in Europe, after Romania, Bulgaria and Spain. After settling in India at the time of the wave of...
"Europe must learn the lessons from the latest mining disaster"
Three months after the tide of red sludge surged from a waste reservoir at the MAL bauxite-aluminium plant in Ajka, 160 km west of Budapest and 80 km from Lake Balaton, the Green Group in the European Parliament is calling for a task force to be set up to draw the pertinent conclusions from the disaster.
At noon on 4...
First arriving in Budapest to study theology in 1997, France Mutombo returned two years later to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It was seeing the poverty in certain areas of the city that led him to embark on humanitarian work. He nevertheless remained in close contact with Hungary, with the aim of increasing awareness among its young people. The Foundation for...
Development education and awareness remain the two major priorities of the some 20 non-governmental organisations concerned with development cooperation in Hungary.
Less than a decade ago, you could count the number of development NGOs on two hands. In 2003 they decided to come together within the HAND platform, the Hungarian Association of NGOs for Development and Humanitarian Aid. Today...
Seven Magyar tribes from the Urals and the Volga decided to settle in the Danube Basin. The year was 900. One hundred years later, the Kingdom of Hungary was born. Istvan, a convert to Catholicism, was crowned king under the name of Saint Etienne.
No sooner born, the Kingdom of Hungary had to face invasion by the Tartars. Ever since then, the history of Hungary has been marked by a series...
Seven years after joining the European Union, Hungary is preparing to take over the presidency. Beginning on 1 January 2010 for six months, it will be a busy presidency as it tackles three issues identified by Budapest as priorities: energy security, EU enlargement to include Croatia, and integration of the Roma. On the latter question, the Hungarian presidency will have the delicate task of...
Tyrol, one of the nine Länder (States) of Austria, has been part of the nation since the middle of the fourteenth century, and yet at all times it has jealously guarded its unique character. There is no doubt that this is largely due to the geography of the region, with its valleys imprisoned by high mountains, which has made it more of a place to travel through than one to settle in....
