[spectre] plan orbana

2022-03-19 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: plan orbana its worth to put this text in google translate: https://www.facebook.com/100050478939975/posts/plan-orbana11-lat-temu-na-jednej-z-konferencji-pod-rzymem-organizowanej-przez-ka/514701036889190/ roman giertych, ex polish deputy prime minister wrote 2 days ago (and it is on his

Re: [spectre] futurlab hungary

2021-07-03 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Re:futurlab hungary dear zeljko, patrice et al,     sorry for the late reaction, and another sorry for the lots of urls, but the illiberal reality produces every day something new and depressing: Orban's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality

[spectre] concerning .pl

2021-07-03 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: concerning .pl Pupils in Polish schools will be  taught that the European Union is an "unlawful entity", says the education minister, Przemyslaw Czarnek. He also wants history classes to focus more on teaching "pride" in Poland's past rather than, than as before, "shame" about it.

[spectre] futurlab hungary

2021-04-28 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: futurlab hungary Hungary's parliament passed legislation on Tuesday setting up foundations to take over the running of universities and cultural institutions in a move critics say extends the ideological imprint of the ruling right-wing government. Orban's Fidesz party, which has a

[spectre] meanwhile in hu

2021-01-14 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: meanwhile in hu Hungary's pro-government and state media reacted to last week's storming of the United States Capitol by far-right supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump by spinning conspiracy theories and shifting blame to alleged antifascist provocateurs and Black Lives Matter

[spectre] in the meantime in .hu

2020-11-29 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: in the meantime in .hu Europe is George Soros' gas chamber," Szilard Demeter, ministerial commissioner and head of the Petofi Literary Museum in Budapest, wrote in an opinion Saturday in the pro-government Origo media outlet. "Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural open

[spectre] #freeSZFE

2020-10-17 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: #freeSZFE Internet is permanently shutdown at main buildings of prestigious Arts University in Budapest while students protest /.../ The current internet shutdown in the University buildings at Tuesday evening and the lock down of Odry stage, which is used as the main venue of forums

[spectre] teaching republic

2020-10-08 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: teaching republic Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the university completely and started new ways of teaching with their 'experimental teaching republic'.

[spectre] lehr-republik

2020-10-05 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: lehr-republik https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/besetzte-theater-uni-startet-lehr-republik-3100/ https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-theater-university-students-occupy-one-more-building/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe

[spectre] Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre and Film Arts

2020-10-02 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre and Fi Col. Gábor Szarka, former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defense in the second Orbán government, was appointed chancellor of the arts university by a board of directors recently installed by the government. Following his

[spectre] Hungary's Index journalists walk out over sacking

2020-07-28 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Index is the last of Hungary's key independent media and editor in chief Szabolcs Dull was fired on Tuesday. Over the past decade, supporters of nationalist and conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban have gradually taken control of Hungary's independent media. Hungary is ranked 89th out of

[spectre] Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition

2020-04-23 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition BRUSSELS - Authoritarian-minded leaders around the world have used the coronavirus emergency to consolidate power. In Europe, the governments of Poland and Hungary have done that and more. They have managed to turn the crisis into a

[spectre] Coronavirus kills its first democracy

2020-03-31 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Coronavirus kills its first democracy You could say that Hungary was already "immunocompromised." A decade under the nation's illiberal nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has corroded the state's checks and balances, cowed the judiciary, enfeebled civil society and the free press,

[spectre] no go topics in state media

2020-03-02 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Hungarian state media bosses told staff they need permission to report on Greta Thunberg and EU politics, and banned coverage of reports from leading human rights organizations, according to internal emails obtained by POLITICO. Editors working in state media are provided with lists of

[spectre] controlling culture

2019-12-12 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
"we must embed the political system in a cultural era" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/the-guardian-view-on-viktor-orban-laws-controlling-culture bonus:

[spectre] Hungarian Academy of Sciences stripped of its research network

2019-07-02 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Despite demonstrations and loud protests, today, leader of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, presented the bill to the National Assembly, which would completely reshape the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) by stripping it of its assets and allow governmental control over the 200

[spectre] Imre Nagy Memorial Removed

2019-01-09 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
The memorial of Imre Nagy, Hungary's prime minister during the 1956 revolution, was removed from Martyrs' Square near Parliament in the early hours of82. Dec. Friday morning. The Imre Nagy memorial will be replaced by a reconstructed post-WWI monument dedicated to the martyrs of the communist

[spectre] "slave labour" law in Hungary

2018-12-15 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Protests have broken out in Hungary after the country's parliament passed new labour laws, which have been labelled "slave labour" by opponents. New rules mean companies can demand up to 400 hours of overtime a year and delay payment for it for three years. Police used tear gas against crowds

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2018-09-13 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
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2018-09-13 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár

[spectre] Frida and Billy in Hungary

2018-08-28 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
A pro-government newspaper has criticized a hugely popular exhibition of her work at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest for "promoting communism". In a July 14 article entitled "This is the way communism is promoted using state money", the Kahlo exhibition was listed in the right-wing

[spectre] Ungarisches TV: Bühne für AfD-Politiker

2018-08-25 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
(sorry for german only) https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/zapp/medienpolitik/Ungarisches-TV-AfD-Politiker-als-besorgter-Buerger,afd1724.html __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help:

[spectre] banning gender studies in Hungary

2018-08-25 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: banning gender studies in Hungary BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will stop financing gender studies university courses, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Tuesday, marking one of the first concrete steps in a cultural shift signaled last month.

[spectre] We stand with the Archive. Do you?

2018-06-04 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
"The man, who wants to act, has not really huge opportunity for action. But there is no moment, when one could not do something." (György Lukács) On 24 May 2018 the last research associate of the Georg Lukács Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was banned from the Archives after

Re: [spectre] on Hungary

2018-04-13 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Re:on Hungary Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant 'atmosphere of fear' Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán's election victory this week /.../ The journalists believe the anti-migrant messages

[spectre] Cas Mudde on Hungary

2018-04-10 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Title: Cas Mudde on Hungary original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/10/orban-election-hungary-europe-future-past Orbán's Hungary is not the future of Europe: it represents a dying past Cas Mudde The declining birthrate and brain drain are likely to continue, as a

[spectre] this is extremely dangerous to our democracy

2018-04-04 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI (by Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin) a similar one created by ThinkProgress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50pLTvwO80=youtu.be Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script

[spectre] Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands

2017-08-25 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands after outgoing Dutch ambassador gave critical interview about Hungarian gov. https://thehungaryjournal.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/hungary-recalls-its-ambassador-from-the-netherlands/

[spectre] Hungary's transit zones

2017-08-10 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Hungary's transit zones are prisons where pregnant women are handcuffed and children go hungry http://index.hu/belfold/2017/08/03/hungary_s_transit_zones_are_prisons_where_pregnant_women_are_handcuffed_and_children_go_hungry/ __ SPECTRE list for media

[spectre] the EU's first rogue state

2017-08-06 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Is Hungary the EU's first rogue state? http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/08/hungary-eus-first-rogue-state-viktor-orban-and-long-march-freedom __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help:

[spectre] bete noire

2017-07-09 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
The government billboards began appearing all over the capital and beyond just days after Orbán accused Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist George Soros of building a _Brussels kingdom_. He also suggested that Soros is directly involved in the European Commissions ongoing

[spectre] Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-24 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil disobedience. The approved law

Re: [spectre] CEU

2017-04-05 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
At 8:35 PM -0500 4/4/17, Keith Sanborn wrote: How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information on the links provided. Did I miss it? hello keith, you have to go through this long list:

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

2017-04-05 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
folks, what in hungary is going on is not nationalism, but ethinicism, big difference. Gáspár Miklós Tamás: /.../ To get as far as they possibly could from democratic nationalism-which is a variant of classical republicanism: political equality and self-determination-they engaged in

[spectre] Lex CEU

2017-04-04 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
BREAKING: "LEX CEU" LEGISLATION, WHICH MAY FORCE THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY TO LEAVE BUDAPEST, PASSED BY HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT http://hungarytoday.hu/news/breaking-lex-ceu-legislation-may-force-central-european-university-leave-budapest-passed-hungarian-government-14033#

Re: [spectre] CEU

2017-04-03 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
(btw in Hungary only government politicians and right wing-media calls CEU as Soros university) Over 1,000 cognitive scientists, including 2 Nobel Laureates, have signed a letter to Hungarian authorities calling on the government to withdraw the proposed legislation and maintain academic

[spectre] Hungarian government chasing CEU

2017-03-29 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, tabled in Hungarian Parliament today. After careful legal study, CEU has concluded that these amendments would make it impossible for the University to continue

[spectre] Word of the Year 2016 is ...

2016-11-16 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is: post-truth an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief'.

[spectre] The crushing of independent press in Hungary

2016-10-15 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
Hungary's Left-Wing Paper Suspended Days After Breaking News http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/08/world/europe/ap-eu-hungary-media.html?_r=0 Protests in Hungary at closure of main leftwing opposition newspaper

[spectre] Degrowth Conference, Budapest

2016-08-25 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
The 5th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Budapest from 30 August to 3 September 2016. For the first time, in parallel to the conference, an open festival "Budapest Degrowth Week" will feature practical workshops, panel and participatory discussions, and also concerts,

[spectre] the purveyor of hate

2016-08-22 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
The hate-filled, racist, anti-Semitic journalistic hack, Zsolt Bayer, on the recommendation of Zoltán Balog (Minister of Human Resources), received the third highest decoration the government can bestow on people of great achievement.

[spectre] Sortir du noir

2016-04-26 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/f/index.php?sp=liv_id=3184 Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film directed by László Nemes. The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. The film won the

[spectre] against illiberal education

2016-03-15 Diskussionsfäden János Sugár
BUDAPEST-Hungary on Tuesday saw the largest public protest since 2014 as demonstrators rallied against what they see as the populist government's tightening grip on education. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in a rainy Hungarian capital against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's