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Budapest assembly votes for investigation into alleged sale of City Hall
The seven-strong committee, headed by Péter Kovács, Fidesz mayor of the 16th district, will present its findings to the assembly at its December meeting.
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Fidesz calls for probe into plans to sell Budapest City Hall
The ruling Fidesz party has called on Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony to order an investigation into reports that the city’s leadership was planning to sell the City Hall building.
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The many paradoxes of little Gergely
It’s hard to refrain from laughing out loud reading Gergely Karácsony’s article in Project Syndicate.
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Survey: Support for Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony has fallen
Magyar Nemzet attributed the fall to Karácsony’s “weak performance as a city leader”.
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Láng: Budapest’s mayor has neglected his duties in the capital
Zsolt Láng said this neglect is evident on the streets of Budapest, with traffic in a state of chaos and public spaces full of rubbish.
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Survey finds opposition prime ministerial candidate unpopular with voters
The Századvég Institute has found that opposition prime ministerial candidate, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, is unpopular with 57 percent of decided voters.
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Nézőpont: 50 percent of Hungarians favor Viktor Orbán as PM candidate
PM Orbán’s support among Hungarian adults continues to hover around 50 percent, with no discernible change due to the mayor’s announcement to run for prime minister.
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State Secretary: Mayor of Budapest proposal to levy “jumpstart” tax on businesses is “inept”
State Secretary András Tállai said the new tax proposal threatens to do extraordinary damage.
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Fidesz MEP slams Budapest mayor for siding with those who have "attacked the Hungarian people"
Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch has accused Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony of “siding” with European commissioner Vera Jourova and Katarina Barley, a European Parliament vice-president.
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Municipal assembly of Budapest bans further construction within Liget Project
László Baán recently asked Mayor Karácsony to withdraw the proposal and provide an opportunity for “proper talks” on the Liget Project.
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Karácsony zum Spiegel: Die Jobbik ist seine rechtsextremen Figuren losgeworden. Ach nein, doch nicht!
Der neu gewählte Oberbürgermeister von Budapest glaubt, die westlichen Medien täuschen zu können, indem er versucht, das De-facto-Bündnis der Opposition mit der antisemitischen Rechten Ungarns schönreden zu können. Aber die Jobbik ist immer noch dieselbe antisemitische Anti-Roma-Gruppe rechtsextremer Radikaler.
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Karácsony in Der Spiegel: Jobbik got rid of its far-right figures. No, they haven’t
The newly elected mayor of Budapest thinks he can fool the western media by trying whitewash the opposition’s de facto alliance with Hungary’s anti-Semitic far-right. But Jobbik is still the same, anti-Semitic, anti-Roma group of far-right radicals.
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Hungary has had to "give up on some of its dreams" following appointment of new Budapest mayor
The prime minister said he had raised the issue of 15-20 projects at a meeting with Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony with a view to coming to an agreement on them. “I had to withdraw a lot of things; it wasn’t pleasant for us to give up dreams,” he said.