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Fear of Toxic Disasters Spreads Beyond Hungary's Borderson Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews The recent toxic spill in Hungary raises fears about thousands of other contaminated sites in Central and Eastern EuropeSee details
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Hungary seeks key role in 2 EU Danube strategy areas, says commissioneron Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews Hungary seeks to take a leading coordinating role in two of the 11 priority areas in the EU's Danube Strategy, the strategy's Hungarian government commissioner told a committee meeting in parliament on Monday.See details
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Former La Salle Standout Yves Mekongo Signs To Play In Hungaryon Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews PHILADELPHIA - La Salle graduate Yves Mekongo has signed a contract to play professionally for Factum Sport Debrecen in the Hungarian A Division. He arrived in Hungary over the weekend and will begin his professional career on Wednesday when FS Debrecen takes on Salgotarjani.See details
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Hungarian energy, telecommunications firms hit with windfall taxon Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews Budapest - Energy, telecommunications and large retail firms operating in Hungary are liable to pay a hefty "crisis" tax after parliament approved late Monday the government's latest deficit- busting levy.See details
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Hungarian company offers toxic sludge victims EUR 5.5mon Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews (BUDAPEST ) - MAL, the company responsible for Hungary's toxic flood disaster, said Monday it would pay up to 5.5 million euros (7.6 million dollars) in compensation to victims over the next five years.See details
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Hungary passes 'crisis' taxeson Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST - THE Hungarian parliament passed late on Monday an additional set of temporary taxes on the telecommunications, energy and retail sectors to help plug the hole in the country's budget. The new centre-right government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban already passed this year a controversial tax on the financial sector to help replenish state coffers that were nearly emptied by the ...See details
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Hungary set to approve 'crisis tax' on businesseson Oct 19, 2010 via YahooNews (AP:BUDAPEST, Hungary) Hungarian lawmakers were expected Monday to approve a series of "crisis taxes" aimed at ensuring the government can meet its targets for reducing the budget deficit.See details
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Hungary spill plant restarts, some villagers returnon Oct 18, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary restarted a plant on Friday that fatally flooded villages with toxic red sludge and some residents evacuated last week returned to their homes despite warnings from environmentalists.See details
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Hungarian plant behind toxic spill restarts -TV2on Oct 18, 2010 via YahooNews Source: Reuters BUDAPEST, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The Hungarian aluminium maker MAL Zrt whose sludge reservoir flooded local villages with a toxic spill last week, restarted production at its plant late on Friday, ...See details
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Hungarian plant behind toxic spill restarts: reporton Oct 18, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Hungarian aluminum maker MAL Zrt whose sludge reservoir flooded local villages with a toxic spill last week, restarted production at its plant late on Friday, commercial television TV2 reported.See details
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Plant site of toxic spill to reopenon Oct 18, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A Hungarian plant where toxic sludge leaked and killed nine people planned to reopen and villagers forced to flee prepared to return home, officials said.See details
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Hungarian Stocks, Forint Tumble on Concern Orban's Taxes Will Hurt Economyon Oct 15, 2010 via YahooNews Hungary?s main stock index fell from a five-month high and the forint weakened against the euro on speculation planned special taxes will reduce companies? profits and hinder the country?s economic recovery.See details
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Region: Second toxic spill feared in Hungaryon Oct 15, 2010 via YahooNews A Hungarian firefighter wearing protective gear walks through a street flooded by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Oct. 9. Residents were prepared for evacuation.See details
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Hungary Sludge a Warning for Other Sites in Europeon Oct 15, 2010 via YahooNews The deluge of sludge has raised the alarm across Eastern and Central Europe, where the Danube River is intersected by factories and mines left over from the Communist era.See details
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Plaque unveiled in Hungary for Sweden's Wallenbergon Oct 15, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary - A plaque commemorating Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, has been unveiled on a wall of the British Embassy in Budapest.See details
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Hungary Central Bankers Face `Conflict' on Rates, Policy Maker Kiraly Sayson Oct 14, 2010 via YahooNews Hungarian rate-setters continue to face the ?same conflict? between rising price pressures and a ?weak? economy, central bank Vice President Julia Kiraly told reporters today in Budapest.See details
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Manager freed in Hungarian spill probeon Oct 14, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A top executive of the Hungarian aluminum company whose site spilled toxic sludge has been freed for lack of evidence, his lawyer said Wednesday.See details
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Hungary secures spill firm premises, dam almost readyon Oct 13, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police secured all premises of aluminum firm MAL Zrt on Tuesday after a disastrous toxic sludge spill that prompted a government takeover, as crews raced to complete an emergency dam to prevent a second deluge.See details
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Hungary nationalizes toxic sludge companyon Oct 13, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary?Hungary seized control of the company blamed for a deadly mud spill Tuesday as a new dam to prevent a feared second disaster neared completion, allowing villagers to return home by the end of the week.See details
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Rush to complete emergency dams in Hungaryon Oct 13, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Construction workers in Hungary were scrambling to complete three emergency dams before an expected second toxic spill from an aluminum plant, officials said.See details
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