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Éva Tétényi the recently elected mayor of the city with around 30 thousands of inhabitants anounced firt in the end of 2010 that they will begain talks about the default depts expired more than 90 days ago

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Changes in the management of turism

2011. January 13.

It seem that turism is one of the winner of the national budget for 2010

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The Government Takes Over Toxic Spill Plant

2010. October 13.

The Hungarian government has taken control of MAL Ltd., the aluminum company whose chemical waste facility ruptured last week in western Hungary, causing a flood of toxic waste that devastated two towns, killed eight people and wiped out all wildlife in the Marcal river.

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Red Sludge Catastropy

2010. October 11.

Toxic red sludge has flooded three counties in Hungary.

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Debrecen buys some Italian trams

2010. October 08.

The fifth time was successful on the calling for tender of the trams n2 of Debrecen.

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"The immunities of townships, which have been obtained with so much difficulty, are least of all protected against the encroachments of the supreme power. They are unable to struggle, single-handed, against a strong and enterprising government, and they cannot defend themselves with success unless they are identified with the customs of the nation and supported by public opinion. Thus until the independence of townships is amalgamated with the manners of a people, it is easily destroyed; and it is only after a long existence in the laws that it can be thus amalgamated."

Alexis Tocqueville: De la démocracie en Amérique / Democracy in America

"Parmi toutes les libertés, celle des communes, qui s'établit si difficilement, est aussi la plus exposée aux invasions du pouvoir. Livrées à elles-même, les institutions communales ne sauraient guère lutter contre un gouvernement entreprenant et fort ; pour se défendre avec succès, il faut qu'elles aient pris tous leurs développements et qu'elles se soient mêlées aux idées et aux habitudes nationales. Ainsi, tant que la liberté communale n'est pas entrée dans les moeurs qu'après avoir longtemps subsisté dans les lois."