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• Hungary|26/11/2009

  Dirty linen

  The degree to which a married couple, the Lakoses, have been dominating the decision-making and executive bodies of the capital is skirting on the edge of incompatibility. While the SZDSZ-member husband is responsible for the urban management of Budapest, his lawyer wife lends him her assistance in megaprojects. The question now arises: is the local government, represented by Mrs Lakos, deliberately losing in a law suit with billions at stake against the private contractors of the sewage clarifying plant in Csepel?
• Hungary|26/11/2009

  Chances of prime minister candidates

  Who will be the candidates for PM? - Some 150 days ahead of the second round of next year’s general elections, the parties are preparing to announce their PM candidates.
• Periscope|19/11/2009

  A distorting mirror

  “Imre Kertész is exaggerating when he says that anti-Semitism prevails in public discourse in Hungary,” says Péter Feldmájer. According to the president of the Jewish Hungarian Communities, whether or not Fidesz nominates Oszkár Molnár will show whether the party finds anti-Semitic views acceptable or not.
• Hungary|19/11/2009

  Held to account

  A criminal procedure was initiated against one of the leaders and major promoters of scientology, Zsolt Fazekas. He is charged with tax fraud. If sentenced, the owner of the Euronics chain store might even end up in prison.
• World Affairs|19/11/2009

  It's ugly, but it was ours

  According to a Russian document that our paper has acquired, the damage caused to the Hungarian state with the selling of the commercial representation in Moscow is at least five billion Forints. We have already sent this evidence by mail to the authorities examining the conditions of the sale. It was János Veres, minister of finance at the time, who supervised the Hungarian National Asset Management Company, responsible for the transaction.