Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2013 (25. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2013-07-12 / 28. szám

Member of the European Parlament calls for equality at Gay Pride March Striving for equality and fighting discrimination are crucial European values, MEP Ulrike Lunacek, a member of the LMBT Intergroup of the European Parliament, said at the closing of this year’s Gay Pride March in Budapest on Saturday. Speaking in a park near Parliament, where march participants held a picnic, Lunacek said that several thousands participating in the march was an important sign “not only for the Hungarian prime minister or the mayor of Budapest, but for each citizen and for our common European interests”. She also welcomed that representatives of many companies and at least 20 foreign embassies in Budapest had joined the march. Budapest’s 18th Pride March of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans-gender and queer people started off Heroes’ Square shortly after 4pm on Saturday. The march, led by five trucks decorated with colours of the rainbow, went along Andrassy Avenue and through the inner city to end near Parliament. The police had cordoned off the route for the march, and most of it was closed for traffic. Politicians of the opposition Socialist Party joined the march to demonstrate the party’s support for the community. “We believe that the basis for an open and inclusive society is standing up for one another,” the party said in a statement issued earlier in the day. “Hungary cannot be successful unless its citizens live free and without fear,” the document added. The co-ruling Christian Democrats called on participants in the march “not to provoke those not joining, families, and communities”. In a statement the party said that “gay pride should end where marchers hurt the human dignity of others”. According to the Christian Democrats, the march “seemingly suggests openness and inclusion, but in fact it prevents one’s sexual orientation (...) from staying within the walls of a bedroom where it belongs”. The statement also referred to the march as a “travelling circus” financed by business circles and “attended by political profiteers”. Earlier in the week, 20 foreign embassies in Budapest voiced support for the week-long Pride festival of gay culture, and Saturday’s march, its closing event, politics.hu Best things to do in Hungary Budapest’s Castle Hill Budapest boasts architectural gems in spades, but the limestone plateau towering over the Danube River’s west bank is the Hungarian capital’s most spectacular sight. Within the castle-walls, vari­ous attractions vie for your atten­tion, from the Great Throne Room and the Budapest History Museum (www.btm.hu ), to the Castle Lab­yrinth (labirintus.com) and the view of Parliament (parlament.hu) across the river from Fishermen’s Bastion. Lake Balaton’s Northern Shore Hungary’s “sea” (and Con­tinental Europe’s largest lake) is where the populace go in summer. The quieter side of Lake Balaton mixes sizzling beaches and oodles of fun on the water with historic waterside towns like Keszthely and Balatonfured. Tihany, a 30m­­high peninsula jutting 4km into the lake, is home to a stunning abbey church, and Badacsony draws the crowds with its lakeside location. Thermal Baths There are more than 300 ther­mal hot springs in use across Hun­gary. Some of the thermal baths, like Rudas (spasbudapest.com) and Király in Budapest and part of the Türkish bath (egertermal.hu) in Eger, date back to the 16th century. Increas­ingly popular are waterparks catering to a larger audience. Try floating on a thermal lake at Heviz (spaheviz.hu) or getting into hot water at a castle at Gyula (gyulaimuzeumok.hu). Wine and palinka Hungarian wines are cel­ebrated the world over. Sweet tokaj and crimson-red Bull’s Blood from Eger are the best known. Don’t overlook the big­bodied reds of Villany or Somlo’s flinty whites. Be sure to try palinka, a fruit-flavoured brandy that kicks like a mule. Szeged The cultural capital of the Great Plain and Hungary’s third­­largest city, Szeged is filled with Art Nouveau masterpieces, cafes and green spaces, straddling the Tisza River. Classical and popular music performances abound, cul­minating in the Szeged Open-Air Festival (szegediszabadteri.hu) in summer. Szeged is also famed for its edibles, including a fish soup made with paprika and Pick, Hungary’s finest salami. heraldsm.com.au Hungarian movie wins top festival prize János Szász’s film A nagy fűzet (“Le Grand Cahier”) won the Crystal Globe, the main prize at the 48th Karlovy Vary Interna­tional Film Festival. The film is the first Hun­garian feature to be awarded the main prize of the festival. caboodle.hu július i2,2013 ) s Hungary Signs Holocaust Compen­sation Deal Amid Controversy Hungary’s center-right government said Saturday, July 6, it had reached a multimillion dollar deal with a US-based Holocaust resti­tution organization on compensation for Hungarian survivors living abroad, prompting some angry reactions from former Nazi death camp inmates. János Lázár, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, said the deal ended a year-long row over alleged accounting irregularities and a freeze of payments to survivors. “In order to now faster disburse restitution monies, the government will transfer $5.6 million within three days,” he added in remarks dis­tributed by Hungarian news agency MTI. However not all Holocaust survivors agree with the deal, said 84- year-old Nikolaus (Miklós) Grüner, a survivor of Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland where he lost his parents and younger brother. “I am against the deal and they should immediately stop it,” stressed Grüner, who was forced to leave his native Hungary at age 15 and now lives in Malmö, Sweden. “The Claims Conference is a corrupt Mafia organization. They never paid people like me a penny,” he told BosNewsLife in a telephone interview. Grüner said he had been approached by several Hungarian Holocaust survivors to publicly protest the deal. 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