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There is a fine line between protecting your national culture and identity on the one hand, and actively rejecting as repugnant anything that is deemed “alien” or “foreign” to that culture on the other.
Zoltán Kész will provide leadership for CSS programs aimed at educating young Hungarians about free-market capitalism and entrepreneurship.
On August 31, 2012 Ramil Sahib Safarov was granted a presidential pardon shortly after being transferred by Hungary to his home country under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced…