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bloomberg.com | Zoltan Simon
Protesters hold banners reading ‘Free Press, Free NGOs’ during a demonstration in Budapest, on June 1. (Bloomberg) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s lawmakers will delay the adoption of a bill targeting independent civil society and media, which has drawn fierce criticism for its perceived aim of enabling a crackdown on dissent before elections.
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3 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Zoltan Simon
Police officers watch the crowd during the Pride parade in Budapest, in 2023. (Bloomberg) -- Hungarian authorities barred the annual Pride parade on the streets of Budapest in the latest salvo of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s escalating culture war before elections. Police, in a decision published on Tuesday, cited a constitutional amendment from April which Orban has said would provide legal grounds for banning LGBTQ events in public.
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5 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Zoltan Simon
Budapest Pride organizers have vowed to defy a potential ban to stage the biggest gathering yet in the event’s 30-year history. (Bloomberg) -- Hungary’s top court struck down a police ban of a pro-LGBTQ gathering in Budapest, in a test of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s escalating culture war before elections next year.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Marton Kasnyik |Zoltan Simon
Mihaly Varga(Bloomberg) -- Hungary’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged as expected, with policymakers focused on curbing still-high inflation expectations despite improving headline price data and a shrinking economy. The National Bank of Hungary held its benchmark rate steady at 6.5% for an eighth month on Tuesday, matching the estimate of all 19 economists in a Bloomberg poll. The key interest rate is tied with Romania’s for the highest in the European Union.
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2 weeks ago |
routledge.com | Zoltan Simon
This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the imperative of bringing colonial patterns of historical injustice to justice. Contemporary societies increasingly reclaim history from the academic pursuit of historiography.
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