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            <title><![CDATA[It's ugly, but it was ours]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/its-ugly-but-it-was-ours-25964]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A certain commissioner]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/a-certain-commissioner-25941]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Although János Veres is lobbying hard to become  European commissioner, the best chances are with László Andor, the economist who wrote about the allegedly anti-Semitic statements of former ministerial advisors to Viktor Orbán. Andor would give up his banking position in London, which Veres could then apply for as a consolation prize.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hauling down the flag]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/hauling-down-the-flag-25932]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Foreign Affairs justified the closing down of a number of foreign representations with economization, while the government is throwing money out of the window in real estate deals in New York and in Moscow.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A union within the Union]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/a-union-within-the-union-25929]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland would like to have joint diplomatic missions in certain places as of next year. Moreover, the V4 (the Visegrád Group) will probably establish a Visegrád Region within the European Union. By doing so, they wish to represent their own interests more effectively, as well as create energy security.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Casus belli]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/casus-belli-25916]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[There are internal political reasons behind László Sólyom having been denied entry into Slovakia last week. Prime Minister Robert Fico no longer needs his coalition partners. However, he has a great need for anti-Hungarian voters.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pogrom atmosphere]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/pogrom-atmosphere-25913]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Slovak government are using murders committed to the injury of Hungary’s Gypsies as a political attack against our country. Meanwhile, our neighbours to the north have run into the sort of trouble with their extremists that may even lead to a political restructuring there.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marathon of the stateless]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/marathon-of-the-stateless-25903]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Alojz Hlina, an entrepreneur from Bratislava, continues his campaign against Ján Slota, even though the party leader accused Hungary of having obliterated its minorities. According to the businessman who two weeks ago publicly apologised to the Hungarians, the Slovakians still haven’t got over the period of Greater Hungary, and many people still fear the alleged intention of historical irredentism.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Language attack]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/language-attack-25899]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[It caused quite a storm on both sides of the Danube when - during its last session before the summer holiday - the Slovakian parliament changed the Slovakian language law, in force since 1995, making it a lot stricter. Interestingly enough, the governing power at the time, just like now, was the Slovakian National Party (SNS), led by Ján Slota.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Free fall]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/free-fall-25890]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hungary's political landscape has undergone major changes as a result of elections to the European Parliament. MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) has shrunk to being a medium-sized political force and now has to compete for voters with Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary). Some counties that used to be carnation strongholds have hardly produced any votes for the left and SZDSZ (Alliance of Free Democrats) is in search of a liquidator.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will we catch up with Romania?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/will-we-catch-up-with-romania-25884]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[“Last week, you mentioned that anti-Hungarian feelings were spreading like the new influenza, because 120 Hungarian civil servants had been made redundant in Transylvania. The EP elections campaign is underway, and you're playing the Romanian card?”]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dirty game]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/dirty-game-25883]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Although certain Slovakian politicians are currently flying into a howling rage about a pan-Hungarian chauvinism allegedly endangering Slovakia, in the past Bratislavan secret agents attempted to destabilise Hungary with the help of organised crime circles. Slovakia at the time of Vladimír Mečiar attempted to prevent the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Czech Republic by instigating anti-Roma sentiments.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Euros stuck in the system]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/euros-stuck-in-the-system-25887]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[“Thank you, Mr Bajnai, for having provided the future Fidesz cabinet with resources”, this is how László Surján – Hungarian MEP, rapporteur for the EU's 2010 budget – describes what happened to EU funds in the past years. In his opinion, the future government will experience an abundance of funds never seen before: three times the amount used so far.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Attack against the Adriatic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With the help of the BBC, British authorities have started a slander campaign against Croatia, says Zagreb. The Croatians believe that London is trying to dissuade British tourists from visiting our southern neighbour in order to safeguard the interests of British businessmen who invested in Spain and Greece.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No adventurers, please! ]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/no-adventurers-please-25878]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hungary has become a paradise for criminal diplomats and fake knights – warns the National Security Office (NBH). Many Honorary Consuls who had compromised themselves  are at the same time 'alternative' Chevaliers of Malta. Many organisations are swarming with officials left behind from the single-party state era, who are members of these „illustrious“ bodies.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[They're in the pantry*]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/theyre-in-the-pantry-25851]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[He’s the grandchild of Stalin’s foreign minister and image builder of Moscow. While Kiev accuses him of subversive behaviour, he is founding a “country-image center” in Hungary. Vyacheslav Nikonov has been called a cultural diplomat, a lobbyist of a superpower, but also a scout of the former KGB.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stalin lives]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/stalin-lives-25842]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia has no scruples about the methods it uses to regain its influence on the states of the one-time Warsaw Pact, says Viktor Suvorov. The former KGB-officer later worked for the British intelligence, and still lives in London. In the interview he gave Heti Válasz in Washington, he claims that the activity of the KGB’s successor organisation is especially strong in two countries: Bulgaria and Hungary.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Energy should not be used as an instrument of politics]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/energy-should-not-be-used-as-an-instrument-of-politics-25834]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The greater the number of gas pipelines that are built to ease the country’s dependency on energy, the better it will be for Hungary. Taxes must be reduced in the interest of economic development, even at the cost of cutting down state expenditure. The American ambassador to Budapest, April Foley, talked to Heti Válasz about issues that affect both countries.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama, black man of the whites?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/obama-black-man-of-the-whites-25828]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In one of my earlier writings (Romániai Magyar Szó (Hungarian Word of Romania), November 4th), I endeavored to answer the following question: when can the president of Romania be Hungarian?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Brussels the terminus? ]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/is-brussels-the-terminus-25825]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The parties have started preparing for the most important event of the year in internal politics, the European Parliamentary elections. As in 2004, the strategy of the Socialists is two-edged. They are lowering the stakes and mobilizing at the same time; and Ferenc Gyurcsány is once again threatening the dangers of a turn to the right.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[They're overtaking from the right]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/theyre-overtaking-from-the-right-25823]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[All over Europe, the radical right are getting ready for the European Parliamentary elections, to be held in June. In Hungary, Jobbik is trying to widen its electoral base with the theme of “Roma criminality”. In Western and Northern Europe, new parties have come to the foreground - they are market-friendly, pensioner-friendly, anti-Muslim and mistrusful of the European Union - all at the same time.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Give and take]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/give-and-take-25818]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ján Slota, chairman of the Slovakian National Party, thinks the principle of reciprocity is essential in the regulation of Slovakian and Hungarian minorities: the Slovak minority in Hungary should have the same rights as the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. But what rights do they have? And can the situation of the two ethnic groups be compared at all?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Terror attack from close up]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/terror-attack-from-close-up-25814]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[“Israel immediately rescued its citizens, while Europe reacted very slowly”, Béla Glattfelder, a member of the European Parliament’s delegation, told Heti Válasz. Glattfelder was in Mumbai last week during the terror attack.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eternal match]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/eternal-match-25806]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[After the police brutality at the scandalous football match in Dunaszerdahely, a wreath-laying ceremony in Királyhelmec frayed tempers in both Slovakia and Hungary. However, by a strange twist of fate, the governments in Bratislava and Budapest may end up reaching common ground.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Expulsion from Paradise?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/expulsion-from-paradise-25808]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[When there’s a crisis, taboos are broken. Leaders of the European Union, for example, believe that the basic lies of global capitalism - in other words, that the free movement of capital and the protection of bank secrets are more important “values” than the exposure of offshore tax-fraud and money laundering - must be reassessed.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Half percent of America]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/half-percent-of-america-25804]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[There's a saying that two Hungarians have three different opinions. But what do one and a half million Hungarians do if they only have two choices? An overview of American Hungarians and their voting habits.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Headhunting in Romania]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/headhunting-in-romania-25796]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hospinvest is recruiting Romanian doctors, and would like to bring back some Hungarian doctors from Italy in order to operate the hospital in Eger. It would be willing to pay doctors five hundred thousand forints net per month, despite the fact that because of financial difficulties, its winding up has been initiated. In the event that the hospital of Eger receives its 6.4 billion forints worth of social insurance subsidy, it can relax for a while.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Les Bourgeois Gentilhommes]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/les-bourgeois-gentilhommes-25787]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The police have uncovered a fraud-series connected to a non-existent order of knighthood. The fake knights who have flooded Hungary often carry on their corrupt practices under the guise of diplomatic immunity. Certain orders are “falsified”, such as the disputed Order of Malta, who recently knighted Andor Schmuck.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I have just come from America]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/i-have-just-come-from-america-25783]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In the American Senate, they are openly talking about the underworld connections of Russian expansion in Hungary. At home, the Socialists are still using the extreme-right as the trump card, trying to discredit the opposition in Washington. Viktor Orbán, who is getting ready to govern the country, is profiting from the change in the geo-political situation, and is re-establishing his ties in America.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Actors and politics]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/actors-and-politics-25781]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[John Lukács says Barack Obama’s African origin could be a disadvantage in the American presidential campaign. We met the world-famous historian in his home in Pennsylvania, where he spoke about how he sees the world and the position of the United States of America within it.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A fire’s burning, folks]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://hetivalasz.hu/english_world_affairs/a-fires-burning-folks-25777]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Prague Spring ended forty years ago. It was one of history’s beautiful revolutionary seasons. We Hungarians took part in crushing it, together with the Soviets, the Poles, and the East Germans. One of the editors of Heti Válasz asked me what I remembered of those days. In a muddle and feeling quite ashamed of myself, here goes:]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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