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  • Ombudsman in Hungary criticizes bill on personal data collection

    HUNGARY, 2017/09/05 The Hungarian government is building a visual surveillance system capable of collecting secret data, the ombudsman for personal data protection Attila Peterfalvi said here on Monday. Following the presentation of the bill by the Ministry of the Interior last week, Peterfalvi, president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Data (NAIH), spoke on commercial radio Klubradio that "The bill would entrust records of images and sounds made by various authorities to a central data storage organization, treating them uniformly."

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Croatia Seeks to Probe Hungarian Oil Chief

    CROATIA, 2013/08/04 Hernadi was named as a suspect by Croatian prosecutors during the trial of disgraced ex-premier Ivo Sanader, who was jailed for ten years in November 2012. Sanader was found guilty of accepting 10 million euro from the Hungarian oil company MOL, in order to give MOL a dominant position in the Croatian oil company, INA. He was as well jailed for taking half a million euro from Hypo bank in 1994 in order to allow the Austrian bank to enter the Croatian financial market.

  • EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding

    HUNGARY, 2013/07/28  In a biting press release, the Hungarian Ministry of Public Government and Justice accuses EC Vice-President and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding of “stating falsehoods” about Hungarian justice system. During her visit to Bulgaria, Ms Reding suggested the Hungarian Supreme Court had been dissolved, the press release states.
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