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Burning issues
Senior foreign ministry official takes cautious approach on Hungary’s Iraq policy
Pledging Hungary’s allegiance to the United States in support of the operations and intervention in Iraq, a senior member of Hungary’s foreign ministry also details a more cautious – even critical – approach, and insists Hungary is not a part of the “occupying powers.”
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
Re-assessing the EU-Russian dynamic

Russian President Vladimir Putin may well have exaggerated concerns about the recent expansion of the European Union.


• Vajna to spearhead world’s largest film studio in Hungary
• Zagreb stretches its hand to Belgrade on train to EU
• Romanian local elections in the spirit of change
• South Africa wins right to organize soccer World Championship
• Slovakia asylum applications skyrocket
• Chinese President Hu Jintao in Budapest

 
 
 
   
Almost Gandhi
India underwent a mammoth democratic task, holding
elections for some 650 million voters. DT correspondent
Samanth Subramanian looks into the results.

 
 
 
   

Hungary and Iraq: shifting position
Interview with Deputy State Secretary Gábor Bródi on the trans-Atlantic relationship. Is Hungary’s position shifting in its participation in Iraq?
 
   






Inimitable Ireland
New EU members have watched Ireland flourish in Europe. Can they follow suit?
“We want to be like Ireland,” we imagine all 10 new members of the European Union saying. Ireland has become an example for those who believe joining the union will make them significantly richer.

A practical nature
Ireland’s pragmatic approach to new EU markets and states
Ireland, holding the rotating European Union presidency, is managing two issues of great importance in Europe, namely the creation of a constitution for the “New Europe,” and determining who will head the EU Commission when current president Romano Prodi steps down later this year.

 
 


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