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  Govʼt to launch policies to improve foreign language skills

  

  Hungaryʼs government has tasked ministries to come up with policy measures to support recommendations by the National Competitiveness Council aimed at improving Hungariansʼ foreign language skills, a resolution published in the latest issue of the official gazette Magyar Közlöny shows, as reported by state news agency MTI.

   Wed, Sept. 19, 2018, 11:00

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  • skills
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  • policy
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  LMP to file criminal complaint for suspected graft in Microsoft case

  

  Green opposition party LMP has said it will file a criminal complaint for abuse of office and misappropriation of funds over what it suspects is corruption entailed in purchases by state institutions of IT products of U.S. software giant Microsoft.   

   Tue, Aug. 28, 2018, 11:08

  • lmp
  • corruption
  • microsoft
  • software
  • government
  • misappropriation
• Politics

  ALLEA alarmed at govʼt interference in academia

  

  ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, has issued a statement expressing alarm at what it describes as the Hungarian government’s "recent, recurring and unfounded intervention in the curricula of private and public universities."

   Tue, Aug. 21, 2018, 13:48

  • allea
  • academia
  • interference
  • gender studies
  • university
  • government
  • ceu
  • elte
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  OSF Budapest office closes on Friday

  

  Following its decision earlier this year, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the international grantmaking network founded by Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros, will close its office in Budapest this week and move operations to Berlin. The head of the office, Katalin E. Koncz, will not follow the staff.

   Thu, Aug. 16, 2018, 10:49

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  • soros
  • closure
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  • ngo
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  Kaspersky rejects allegations of security threat

  

  Russian antivirus software developer Kaspersky Lab has rejected all allegations of links to the Russian authorities, or that it represents a threat to national security. The company was responding to the Hungarian governmentʼs ban on the use of Kaspersky software on computers in public administration.

   Thu, Aug. 16, 2018, 10:10

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  Kaspersky software purged from govʼt computers

  

  A government decision published on Monday in the official gazette stipulates that computers used in Hungarian public administration should not be allowed to run software by Russian antivirus software developer Kaspersky Lab.

   Wed, Aug. 15, 2018, 12:13

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  • antivirus
  • ban
  • government
• Economy

  Government deficit reaches 109.6% of full-year target

  

  The government deficit, which had already surpassed the full-year target in June, has increased by a further 5%. The cash flow-based general government, excluding local councils, stood at HUF 1.491 trillion deficit at the end of July, the Ministry of Finance said today.

   Tue, Aug. 7, 2018, 13:47

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  Report highlights Orbán’s ‘authoritarian tendencies’

  

  Strategic communications consultancy Portland has released its annual Soft Power 30 Index. In the fourth edition of the report, Hungary climbed three places, becoming the biggest mover on this year’s list. There are shortcomings, however.

   Thu, July 12, 2018, 15:45

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  • portland
  • orban
  • culture
  • education
  • government
  • engagement
• Economy

  Deficit-to-GDP ratio 1.1% in Q1 2018

  

  The general government sector closed the first quarter of 2018 with a deficit of HUF 115.5 billion, equivalent to 1.1% of GDP, preliminary data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. The balance deteriorated by HUF 402.3 bln, or 4.2 percentage points as a proportion of GDP compared to Q1 2017, when the government sector ran a 3.1%-of-GDP surplus.

   Mon, July 2, 2018, 11:37

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  • deficit
  • gdp
  • balance
  • ksh
  • statistics
• Economy

  Govʼt to continue payroll tax cuts, conditional on wage rises

  

  Minister of Finance Mihály Varga confirmed on Wednesday that the government would continue to reduce the payroll tax in 2019 if wages rise at a sufficient pace.  The government could cut the 19.5% payroll tax by another two percentage points next year, depending on the rise in real wages.

   Wed, June 27, 2018, 13:42

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  • tax cut
  • wage hike
  • government
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