LMP is preparing for street demonstrations similar to the one held on the 23rd of December, 2011, because the party “wants to bridge the gap between the streets and the parliament” – said Mr. András Schiffer in his interview reviewing the year 2011 to MTI (Hungarian News Agency). The Head of the Parliamentary faction of [...]
December 7th The higher-level education act, along with the 2012 budget, and the Széll Kálmán package, plans on shutting down community colleges, technical schools, and universities. Classrooms will close, institutions will lose their autonomy, and students rights will be curtailed; the promised improvement of quality is highly unlikely. The act is filled with so many [...]
LMP (Poltiics Can be Different) has raised five important points the green party believes are required to establish financial stability in the country. Gábor Scheiring, LMP parliamentary delegate began the press statement by asking for a new budget from the current administration, and the resignation of the economic minister, György Matolcsy. LMP’s economic cabinet’s leader [...]
According to LMP, Politics Can be Different, Economic Minister György Matolcsy’s new budget, which was recently announced, is a far cry from a “protective budget.” Gábor Scheiring, the leader of the Economic cabinet of the party, asserted that “it turned out that Viktor Orbán was telling the truth in Kötcse; there indeed will be a [...]
LMP, Politics Can be Different, supports the trade union protests against the new labour-market measures of the government. The party will attempt to stop the governing Fidesz’s proposal through a referendum. In a well-functioning democracy, trade unions are respected bodies that represent workers’ rights. That is why we ask the government to face the consequences of [...]
Mr. Gábor Vágó held a press conference today in which he explained that the flat tax system, which according to him was “sentenced to death” to begin with, is being kept alive with more and more dire steps; the result is a flat tax system, which is only flat in name. The Orbán administration has [...]
LMP calls upon public media leaders to end the political purges, establish a clear programming concept, and a necessary employee headcount. What many have been concerned about has indeed taken place; the current administration has begun to transform the public media into a politically biased propaganda outlet. The management of the public media has decided [...]
LMP strictly condemns the manner in which the current administration ordered Tibetan nationals to the Bureau of Immigration and Nationality, and banned the demonstration of the Tibet Support Association, along with the demonstration Falun Gong Association in order to create a fake sense of approval during the Chinese Prime Minister’s visit. This was declared on [...]
The Orbán government has played double or nothing and lost. The flat tax system has not only reduced the income of the middle class but also destroyed the national budget. This fact was admitted by György Matolcsy, supposedly the right hand man of Viktor Orbán, as a new reason for an amending another austerity package. [...]
The government can be best described today as presenting national cynicism instead of national cooperation – said Andras Schiffer as part of his annual cabinet evaluation speech. The faction leader said that thus far all actions of the government were ineffective economic policies primarily focused on unsustainable tax cuts and the elimination of a constitutional [...]
Mr. Schiffer announced on Monday, May 23rd that for the protection of fundamental employee rights, LMP has initiated a request at the National Election Commission for a ten-question referendum addressing urging issues of economic vulnerability and restrictions. A press conference was held Monday morning next to the Parliament by the fraction leader of LMP as [...]
Virág Kaufer, LMP parliamentary representative and member of the Committee of Labor Market and Employment, visited Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county in order to see how the area is coping with the government’s new Public Employment program. (Public Employment in this legislation refers to physical labor). Ms. Kaufer reported ample bitterness and frustration in the region. The newly revised [...]
Benedek Jávor, chairman of the Hungarian Parliament’s Committee for Sustainable Development, and Bence Tordai, spokesman for LMP, introduced the joint publication prepared by LMP and the Green Group in the European parliament regarding the main challenges for the Hungarian EU-presidency. The publication is called “A different vision for Europe – Green priorities for the Hungarian EU presidency”. The publication addresses the priorities of the Hungarian EU presidency, and what actions Hungary must take in order to make this term a success.
The issue of a Green New Deal achieved a seminal position in the discourse on public policy in developed countries during the autumn and winter of 2008. While many countries in the developed world as well as transnational and international organizations have since been discussing green stimulus packages, the concern for long term sustainability more [...]
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