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31/03/2016

Election office, committee to file criminal complaints over February 23 incident

Budapest, March 31 (MTI) – The National Election Committee (NVB) and the National Election Office (NVI) on Thursday said they would both file criminal complaints over […]
31/03/2016

Top court says National Bank of Hungary data disclosure amendments unconstitutional

Budapest, March 31 (MTI) – Hungary’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that amendments to the law governing the central bank that give the National Bank of […]
31/03/2016

Kúria thwarts referendum on officials’ families benefitting from public bids

Budapest (MTI) – The supreme court on Wednesday threw out a referendum initiative aimed at banning family members of mayors from winning major public projects. The […]
23/03/2016

Charges dropped against policemen allegedly attacking UAE chess official

Budapest, March 23 (MTI) – A southern Hungary court on Wednesday dropped charges of serious violence against two policemen who had been suspected of attacking a […]
19/03/2016

Serbian court calls on Jobbik to close local office

Budapest, March 19 (MTI) – A local court in northern Serbia’s Vojvodina has banned the operation of the office of István Szávay, deputy leader of the […]
18/03/2016

Socialists demand election committee certify party’s referendum initiative

Budapest, March 18 (MTI) – The opposition Socialists on Friday called on the national election committee (NVB) to convene a meeting and certify the party’s referendum […]
18/03/2016

Court finds former MDF politicians guilty in UD case

Budapest, March 18 (MTI) – A Budapest court on Friday upheld an earlier ruling and found former leader of the conservative MDF party Ibolya Dávid and […]
17/03/2016

EU court rules Hungary not at fault for returning migrant to Serbia last summer

Brussels/Luxembourg, March 17 (MTI) – Asylum-seekers may be returned to a non-EU country considered as a “safe country” without consent from another member state, the European […]
18/02/2016

Syrian in 2015 Röszke unrest charged with terrorism

Budapest, February 18 (MTI) – Southern Hungary’s chief prosecutor has pressed charges of terrorism against a Syrian national who was involved in a violent clash between […]
16/02/2016

Former Socialist vice-mayor in EUR 9.6m fraud case

Budapest, February 16 (MTI) – The municipal court of Budapest held the first trial on Tuesday in a case in which György Fürst, former Socialist deputy […]
16/02/2016

Shocking: Puskás’ team cannot use the player’s name anymore

Owner of Kispest Honvéd football team, George F. Hemingway lost the lawsuit, 24.hu wrote. The Puskás values have already been moved to Felcsút where the excellent […]
16/02/2016

Final: Traubi was faked

A decade-long lawsuit process has been finished in Veszprém on Thursday: the court finally convicted Salamon Berkowitz and his son Moses Berkowitz for the falsification of Traubisoda […]
11/02/2016

Legally declared in Romania: Szeklerland does not exist

According to kronika.ro, the Marosvásárhely Court of Appeal said no to the tourism promotion of Szeklerland, dismissing the appeal concerning the formal registration of Pro Turismo […]
10/02/2016

Faster and cheaper e-lawsuit

Electronic communication with the court will be mandatory in civil proceedings from July 1, metropol.hu reported. The National Judicial Office (OBH) promised help yesterday, by providing […]
08/02/2016

Szeged court passes 80 decisions on illegal border crossing

Budapest, February 8 (MTI) – The local court in Szeged passed 80 decisions last week against suspects who had illegally entered Hungary, a spokeswoman for the […]
05/02/2016

Eleven suspects charged in Quaestor case

Budapest, February 5 (MTI) – The office of Budapest’s chief prosecutor has pressed charges against eleven individuals for embezzlement, fraud and other offences related to the […]
04/02/2016

Local protesters show outrage over red-sludge court ruling

Budapest, February 4 (MTI) – Around fifty people held a demonstration against the court ruling over Hungary’s 2010 red-sludge disaster, in western Hungary, on Thursday. The […]
03/02/2016

The government office chief: People have right to express opinion on court rulings

Budapest, February 3 (MTI) – Politicians should not try to influence the work of the courts but ordinary people must not be stopped from expressing their […]
02/02/2016

The head of the National Judicial Office warns against attempts to put pressure on judiciary 

Budapest, February 2 (MTI) – The head of the National Judicial Office has called on “representatives of the other branches of state power to respect the […]
02/02/2016

ECtHR: Top court ruling on websites’ liability for user comments breaches freedom of speech

Strasbourg, February 2 (MTI) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday said a decision by the Constitutional Court stating that web portals are […]