The UK-based Hungarian Roma documentary photographer Béla Váradi spent months photographing the lives of blood plasma donors after he realised several old friends saw payment for plasma donation as a way of getting by In the rust belt of north-eastern Hungary a new economy is thriving – one built on human blood Private companies have found a way to profit from the desperation of the region’s most marginalised population the act of donating blood plasma has become a lifeline a grim means of survival in a landscape of chronic unemployment and deprivation Plasma donation is a process in which the liquid part of the donor’s blood is collected while the red blood cells and platelets are returned to the donor by a machine plasma donations have exploded over the past few years More than 50 plasma centres operate across the country with companies collecting up to 2,600 litres (570 gallons) of plasma a week in facilities that run six days a week donors can only be paid 7,500 forints (£15.30) in cash but there is no regulation on additional incentives and lottery entries as rewards for frequent donations donors can receive shopping vouchers or participate in draws for prizes such as e-scooters or (pun intended) plasma TVs These centres are predominantly concentrated in eastern Hungary and the local population – many of whom are Roma – struggles to make ends meet “It’s like gambling,” one local donor told me A woman shows the booklets from different plasma centres where she and her son have been donating A woman watches her daughter play after donating plasma to buy her a birthday gift The lack of regulation in the system is evident contributing to the creation of a wild west of healthcare providers in these left-behind regions Although Hungarian law permits plasma donations only twice a week there is no effective mechanism to track how often individuals donate Plasma centres do not share donor information with one another and many donors visit several centres within the same week to trick the system and maximise their income Some medical professionals have been accused of turning a blind eye to this practice “Doctors see on my arms that I’ve donated at another centre the day before it’s all about the numbers,” said one donor This 18-year-old boy has been donating plasma for two years It has been alleged that the medical teams at the plasma centres often overlook the most basic health regulations when triaging donors who said he started donating plasma when he was just 16 – two years below the legal age limit He and his mother regularly commute for two hours from their village where four different plasma centres operate within walking distance of one another An advertisement banner in Ózd promises cash for plasma donations mixing the lure of financial gain with the noble idea of saving lives plasma donation is no longer just a source of shame – it is a necessary evil I spoke with a Roma woman waiting with her child while her husband was giving plasma: “We only get enough money to buy food for a couple of days,” she said in a fearful whisper The stigma surrounding plasma donation is evident Many donors were reluctant to be photographed who has become friendly with the doctor at the centre he visits told me: “She said she would never give plasma herself explains how he fainted during the process “I’ve just fainted during donations because I didn’t drink enough water beforehand and my immune system isn’t what it used to be I have to feed my family – literally with my blood.” Hungary has a legal limit of 45 plasma donations a year but this man found a way around the system where public transport is unreliable and jobs are scarce some plasma donors travel long distances to maximise their earnings I met a man travelling an hour and a half from Pétervására barely weighing more than 50 kilos [eight stone] pointing in the opposite direction with his hands explaining that he needed money to buy a gift for his daughter’s birthday A plasma donor travelling from Pétervására to Ózd to give plasma more often than allowed in order to be able to afford a birthday gift for his daughter Another donor from the large city of Debrecen he had donated plasma more than 300 times – far exceeding the legal limit of 45 donations a year “The law says a person can only give 34 litres in that time The lack of oversight and regulation has made it easy for these companies to take advantage of an already vulnerable population this person has received £15 cash plus a £15 shopping voucher Frequent plasma donors are often blind to the toll it takes on their bodies concern for personal health becomes a distant worry I can still remember the appearance of the man who had donated more than 300 times: low weight hollow cheeks – the embodiment of being literally drained saying that even though the smallest cold now knocks him down he still considers himself “healthier than ever” This form of self-exploitation is subtly encouraged by companies that often minimise the risks and relentlessly advertise the lifesaving nature of plasma donation It is true that plasma saves lives – but what happens when the lifesaver’s health is sacrificed in the process A Roma child plays on a swing in a slum outside Ozd which is accused of being anti-Semitic and racist took control of the town after an election campaign in which it promised to issue an ultimatum to the Roma minority - follow our rules or leave town is the biggest prize won by Jobbik in a nationwide round of municipal elections in which it increased the numbers of City Halls it controls from three to fourteen Though still a long way behind the ruling centre-right Fidesz party in the elections it overtook the Socialists to become the second biggest opposition party 27-year-old David Janiczak (left) took a walk around the main square receiving congratulations from townspeople He said he would crack down on crime and poverty on behalf of all residents Yet the programme on which Janiczak ran in the election is explicit in singling out the Roma community posted on the Jobbik internet site next to a photograph of Janiczak states: "We think there are two ways to solve the Gypsy question...The first one is based on peaceful consent "Our party wishes to offer one last chance to the destructive minority that lives here so first it will consider peaceful consent then and only then the radical solution can follow." Interviewed on Monday outside his new office in City Hall Janiczak used much more measured language about the Roma than his election manifesto "Conditions are horrid on the outskirts of town where most Roma live," Janiczak told Reuters "We need to create jobs and enforce order for Roma and Hungarians alike Around a quarter of the city's population are Roma Conditions are so bad that for some in the Roma community fear about the persecution Jobbik might bring is mixed with hope that a radical new party might do something to improve their lot where all others have failed "Like most Roma we are afraid what might happen to us because the news was always that some people wanted us dead and they would ship us off in trains like Hitler did with the Jews," one local woman She was speaking in the centre of one of the town's toughest Roma slums "But if this kid Janiczak can act the way he talks about work then there won't be racial discrimination." many of the people who voted for a Jobbik mayor said they did so at least in part because Jobbik had promised to tackle what the party describes as "Gypsy crime.” Roma communities throughout Eastern Europe experience discrimination every day from lack of access to quality healthcare to de facto segregation in many schools ozd-nepszabadsag picture by Konyhas Istvan.jpg events in the town of Ózd in northern Hungary raised the spectre of a new dangerous form of direct discrimination against the struggling local community Once flourishing due to the metallurgic industry Although officially only 7 per cent of the population have declared themselves to be of Roma ethnicity according to some estimates one-third of Ózd’s population may have Roma origins the city council in Ózd shut off the 27 water pumps which supply free According to the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) 500 families in the area do not have running water in their homes and thus rely on the public water pumps The city council’s decision directly targeted the town’s Roma community who make up the majority of those who cannot afford to have water in their homes Although pressure from NGOs and international institutions ultimately forced Ózd to restore the free water pumps the town’s ethnically-motivated decision to completely terminate a crucial public service to the Roma community marks a turning point in the form and level of overt discrimination against the town’s Roma minority discrimination against the Roma community in Ózd has been widespread Like in many other villages and towns throughout Eastern Europe dozens of Roma families were evicted from their homes in Ózd in the late 1990s and early 2000s for either failure to pay bills or simply because the town council wished to “remodel” and bring new – non-Roma – residents to their neighbourhoods one study found that Ózd’s emergency ambulance service tended to arrive later – or not arrive at all – when Roma families called for assistance Despite the ethnic prejudice that has contributed to the evictions and unreliability of emergency services the discrimination manifested itself indirectly generally in the ways in which the town and individual bureaucrats chose to target Roma residents When Ózd’s city council shut off the public water pumps in August Ózd’s long-time indirect discrimination was replaced by direct and officially-sponsored racism While previous discriminatory practices are perhaps equally harmful to the well-being of the Roma authorities in Ózd have only engaged in small-scale racism – one missed ambulance one apartment complex at a time – which could be easily disguised which includes representatives from both the ruling Fidesz party and the opposition Socialist party felt empowered to publicly and directly target the town’s most vulnerable population The city council’s decision to shut off the public water supply stems partly from the strengthening of Hungary’s far-right and a growing tolerance for racist public discourse in Hungarian society in recent years while repeatedly attempting to defend its human rights record internationally has done little to respond to racism domestically discrimination is beginning to evolve from an informal and indirect practice into a potential public policy have come under fire for tolerating the existence of a wall separating the town’s Roma community from the rest of the population Local officials in places such as Ózd and Košice are becoming bolder and more assertive in publicly expressing their prejudices and implementing policies these policies are designed to appeal to local constituencies which hold racist views The latest European Commission poll found that only 9 per cent of Slovaks 23 per cent of Hungarians and 47 per cent of Poles would feel “comfortable” about their children having Roma schoolmates While it is unclear whether political factors or both are contributing to the persistence of these levels of prejudice throughout the region so long as public opinion continues to hold such negative perceptions of their Roma neighbours there is likely to be more and more alarming cases similar to that which took place in Ózd which has contributed to the deterioration of the standard of living of the Roma since the transitions to democracy officially-sponsored forms of discrimination whether in the form of ending access to public services or formal attempts at marginalising Roma communities Ózd’s public water pumps may again stop working Lili Bayer studied Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford She is a contributing editor to Politics.hu The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries New thinking is needed in policies towards Russia in whatever form it will take after the war Ukraine’s suffering goes well beyond the front line With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we now see our western values under siege whether we consciously recognise it or not The 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information GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare  New Jobs and Expansion of Manufacturing Facility in Ózd 2011---GE (NYSE: GE) has underpinned its commitment to growth in Europe with a $4.9 million (900 million Hungarian Forint) investment at its Ózd facility in northeast Hungary The investment will create an additional 250 jobs at the site The Ózd plant produces GE Energy's 'Elfa Plus' range of safety and electrical system protection devices which are exported to markets throughout Europe GE Energy's manufacturing plant is already the largest employer in the town of Ózd and the additional 250 jobs brings the total employed to 1600 The 20,000-square-meter facility was opened in October 1999 and is recognized as a model site for manufacturing The new manufacturing line was officially opened today at a ceremony attended by Sándor Czomba the Minister of State for Employment Policy at the Ministry for National Economy; Gábor Ríz Vice-President of Borsod Abaúj Zemplén County Council "As the Employment Policy State Secretary of the government I am happy to be here in this modern plant that was inagurated in 1998 during the current government's previous term as the first major green-field investment in North-East Hungary "It was a symbolic act to demonstrate the revival of an underpriviledged region then It is visible that the facility has not just grown both in size and profile in the past 13 years but it is adding a new high value-added product line creating 250 new jobs GE's economic significance and good corporate citizenship makes it an investor the Hungarian government welcomed back then and continues to support," said Sándor Czomba chief executive officer of GE Energy's Industrial Solutions business in Europe Middle East and Africa: "GE Energy is committed to increasing its business in Europe and creating jobs in the regions where we operate We have invested in our manufacturing capability at Ózd to build on our established presence in Hungary "Building our 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The businesses that comprise GE Energy www.ge.com/energy---GE Power & Water GE Energy Services and GE Oil & Gas---work together with more than 90,000 global employees and 2010 revenues of $38 billion to provide integrated product and service solutions in all areas of the energy industry including coal natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water solar and biogas; as well as other alternative fuels and new grid modernization technologies to meet 21st century energy needs GE newsMasto Public Relations [email protected][email protected] +-349331278334 GE Energy Adds 250 Jobs and Expands Manufacturing Facility in Hungary Hungary (AP) — The workers wake up in the middle of the night and walk miles to get to their jobs by 6 a.m they toil for hours with little chance of rest Soon surveillance cameras shaped like eyeglasses will track their every move The workers are mostly Gypsy men and women and their boss is a new far-right mayor who is cracking down on a group his Jobbik party often casts as an enemy David Janiczak’s leaderhip in Ozd gives clues into what Hungary might feel like if the surging Jobbik managed to unseat Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative Fidesz party — which is slumping in popularity Jobbik now runs about a dozen Hungarian towns and holds 12 percent of the seats in the national parliament It is also the most popular party with young voters the party could pose a serious challenge to Fidesz in 2018 parliamentary elections Since Janiczak won power in Ozd — whose population of 34,000 is about one-third Gypsy — members of the minority who work on city-run farmland and other public projects have seen their work conditions get much harsher fewer breaks and soon the introduction of surveillance cameras to ensure that they don’t slack off suggested that the tough work conditions were at least in part intended to drive Roma away “Every person in Ozd has two options — they either live in order and integrity and build the city or they destroy it,” Janiczak told The Associated Press “The majority of these destructive people are Gypsies without whom … it would be easier for the city to develop.” the city would spend less on social benefits and people would feel safer Jobbik often uses the term “Gypsy crimes” to refer to petty thefts and other law-breaking rarely investigated by police If efforts to integrate the “destroyers” are unsuccessful “authorities will use the full force of the law.” Jobbik is using Ozd as a “laboratory of government,” experimenting with policies and ideas at the municipal level as its support grows across the country director of the Political Capital Institute which has been closely following Jobbik for years While Jobbik’s electoral campaigns last year presented candidates with their families or pets — and downplayed the party’s radical views — Kreko said that Ozd showed that beneath the surface Jobbik has not really changed “The intentions and plans of Jobbik and its treatment of the public works employees clearly refute its efforts to soften its image,” Kreko said “What is functioning is a very ideological 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of the Hungarian capital of Budapest had a steel mill which employed some 14,000 people After the mill and a coal mine closed in the 1990s the unemployment rate jumped to over 20 percent and unskilled Roma were among the most affected Roma laborers make up the bulk of 1,300 Ozd residents taking part in a public employment program that was introduced across Hungary in late 2013 by the Orban government After Janiczak took office last year he enforced the rules in a stricter way and implemented new ones Net pay for unskilled workers is around 51,000 forints ($180 and many are glad to take it as the government has also greatly cut unemployment benefits which are now called “work search allowances.” a crew of about a dozen laborers was preparing some farmland for planting on the outskirts of town their complaints ranged from getting only one 5-minute break an hour to a lack of drinking water and toilet facilities Their work day now starts as much as two hours earlier than before Janiczak took over meaning many need to walk to work because there are few public transportation options so early in the day Indignation was strongest over a clause in the new work contract allowing officials to take video and photos of their work performance “This is only about intimidation,” said Bela Biro a Roma former steel mill worker who works on the city-run farming project “We don’t dare sit down for five minutes even if blood is running from our nose.” Janiczak said he is only carrying out existing laws “We want nothing else but to enforce order enforce employment regulations and educate these people to work,” he said “I think their issue is not with walking but with … having to do actual work instead of just showing up.” Janiczak said the city had spent 340,000 forints ($1,260; 1,100 euros) on eight video cameras not just to oversee workers but also to protect supervisors from threats and attacks “This is going to clear up many disputes,” said the mayor civilized world every workplace has cameras Why should the public workers be exempt from this?” Those in the public employment program should “get used to being observed.” Janiczak said the surveillance plan had been cleared by an official investigation and that recordings would be made on “exceptional occasions.” Human rights activists said the measures amounted to harassment “To burden the already defenseless public works employees with the issue of surveillance is unacceptable and embitters their lives,” said Mate Szabo a director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union “It would be more justified to keep the job inspectors under surveillance instead and monitor their treatment of the workers.” a rights advocate who has been working with the Roma in Ozd for many years said the mood in the community had deteriorated since Janiczak’s victory “I think the humiliation is what is much stronger now than before,” Bodis said The new mayor said he his job-creation plans would potentially draw back many of the 15,000 Ozd residents who left over the past two decades Janiczak has nominated Ozd as the location for one of several new prisons being built by the government by 2019 A prison “also deters criminals,” the mayor said Many of the local Roma live in dire poverty in slums where they lack running water and where the city does not come to remove their garbage They share a communal water pump and burn garbage nearby who runs the Your Place foundation which mentors disadvantaged Roma students “Discipline and order are important,” Bodis said “But it is more important to provide opportunities.” Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser National Youth Poet Laureate for 2017 Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" during the inauguration of President Biden BUDAPEST, Hungary — Rozalia Galambica first discovered Amanda Gorman on YouTube, not long after the poet dazzled at President Biden's inauguration with "The Hill We Climb." "The way she performs her poem," says Galambica The Roma are one of Europe's largest minorities, and its most marginalized. They migrated from India to Europe centuries ago yet are still treated like outsiders "When you experience hate every day of your life," Galambica says You feel hope that you can do much more in life than what society tells you." This perspective is one reason why Galambica is now on a team of young Romani writers who are translating Gorman's best-selling new book Their selection came after a heated debate in Europe last year over who should translate the work of a young Black American poet Galambica attends university in the Netherlands The controversy began in the Netherlands early last year. International Booker Prize-winning writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld — who is white, non-binary and uses they/them pronouns — revealed on Twitter that they were selected to translate "The Hill We Climb" into Dutch Janice Deul, a Black activist in the Netherlands, responded by calling Rijneveld "an incomprehensible choice" and saying the work should go to a spoken-word artist who is "young Rijneveld quit. "I wasn't considered capable," they told a Dutch TV host in November "People said: 'you're not a person of color Then Gorman's Catalan translator, Victor Obiol, a white man, was told he was "not suitable." The criticism publicly divided the low-key world of literary translation One faction argued that Europe was importing American identity politics Another said that the lack of diversity in literary translation is a very real issue "It's about the opportunity, the space for visibility created by the act of translation, and who gets to occupy that space," wrote Haidee Kotze a translation studies professor at Utrecht University the pool of translators in Hungary is "mostly white and middle-aged," says Andras Buchler of Open Books the publishing house in Budapest that's handling the Gorman translation "When publishers anywhere in the world acquire foreign-language titles they look for translators with deep understanding of the original work," he says there were also the issues of accessibility and relatability." Writer and documentary filmmaker Kriszta Bodis saw an opportunity 'we have these wonderful young writers who are Roma,' " she says an education nonprofit that first started up in Ozd a town in the northern hills of Hungary with a sizable Roma community The four translators on the Gorman project grew up in Ozd and attended school in Budapest through a partnership with the nonprofit Bodis says that the Roma are so disadvantaged in Hungarian society that most do not finish high school or find good jobs "Politicians use the Roma to win elections [with promises of support] then ignore or abuse them the rest of the time," she says More than 12 million Roma live in Europe today, most in the eastern half of the continent. At least 750,000 live in Hungary Rozalia Galambica says she tried hard to fit into a society that constantly told her "You won't be able to have a career because you will have children at 16 or at 15," she says his teacher told him that it doesn't really matter if he studies because he won't be able to get a good job is 18 and says he grew up watching portrayals of Roma as "fraudsters gangsters or performers playing music to humor white people." "I feel like the hill we're trying to climb," he says "is to put a stop to Romani people being looked at as criminals and as jokes and clowns." says her classmates in Budapest don't realize that stereotyping hurts I really hope that they see what they did." to workshop their translations of the poems in Call Us What We Carry including a video of Nina Simone's song "Brown Baby," so the team can learn about the Black American experience says he's trying to help the team with workshops and coaching but we are trying hard to not pressure them," he says "We really want to give them time to make each and every piece like perfect." Rozalia Galambica joined the session via Zoom from Leiden University in the Netherlands where she's studying international relations and sociolinguistics "I want to do something that changes how society perceives the Roma." She struggles with that perception herself She says she sometimes doesn't speak up when classmates assume she's Spanish or Greek "because I'm not sure about how they would handle it." She turns to the last lines of "The Hill We Climb": we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid She says those words always give her chills — and wants to make sure their power is not lost in translation Mate Halmos contributed to this report from Budapest and Rosanne Kropman from Amsterdam This article says International Booker Prize laureate Marieke Lucas Rijneveld uses they/them pronouns which is how Rijneveld is referred to in the 2020 International Booker Prize citation Rijneveld's current Twitter account says the author uses he/him pronouns Become an NPR sponsor Zoltan Berki (pictured below) usually wakes up before dawn as his five small children sleep next door to feed the old iron furnace that stands in a wall cavity to warm up both rooms This is the only part of his house that he can afford to heat during winter cycles an hour to work to save on the bus fare But he also has to burn some materials before daylight to conceal the thick black smoke that billows from his chimney when he uses plastic or rubber Such household pollution is illegal in Hungary including in this town near the Slovakian border dense smoke of different hues spews from nearly every chimney "Firewood is expensive," Berki said one recent afternoon and if we find plastic or rubber we burn that." The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last week that Hungary had breached pollution limits for over a decade in the Sajo river valley which could be grounds for financial penalties unless reversed The ruling should be seen as "a wake-up call" European Commission spokeswoman Vivian Loonela said The Hungarian government did not respond to a request for comment Although Hungary has reduced its carbon emissions in the past decades and is not the worst offender in Europe according to locals and environmental rights groups The capital Budapest and the southern city of Pecs suffer too where pollution and poverty go hand-in-hand the hand-sized doors of the furnace open with a creak Berki starts the flames and throws in a wood plank or two to build heat Scavenging for material to burn is common for the poorest people in the small run-down town of Sajonemeti and those nearby among the most destitute communities in Europe since Communist-era heavy industry vanished 30 years ago "We throw the rubber and the plastic bottles and such things on at night." The valley forms a dead end and prevents winds as cold air settles in together contributing to thousands of premature deaths every year Hungarian environmental groups have been raising the alarm for years northeastern Hungary's foremost environmental activist surveyed locals about their heating practices and found that while some people burned rubbish even those who tried to heat homes properly often burned lignite or other coal products that were unfit for home use That echoed the assessment of the Clean Air Action Group households could erase gains made by a post-Communist cleanup of industry The gap between quality coal and low-grade alternatives can mean a 60-fold difference in particulate emissions air pollution causes an annual 13,000 premature deaths a million people fall sick and billions of euros are lost to economic damage According to the European Environmental Agency Hungary ranks third in Europe behind Bulgaria and Poland in health damage losing an annual 1,128 life years per 100,000 residents due to particulate pollution alone - compared with about 500 in the UK or 250 in Sweden Air pollution can cause allergic reactions asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases the National Public Health Institute said in a 2017 study Berki's five children all use inhalers because they suffer from asthma symptoms the elder Berki went to dig up leftover coal by hand - a common sight in winter The man-made mounds are littered with materials for burning including logs from the old coal mine rail tracks which are infused with diesel "Smokes like hell but burns nicely," he said as he piled up a few "We collect what we find and take it home to burn PHOTO EDITING MARIKA KOCHIASHVILI; TEXT EDITING MIKE COLLETT-WHITE; LAYOUT JULIA DALRYMPLE Horvat breastfeeds her son Manasse as he is baptised Relatives and friends attend Manasse’s baptism Horvat serves food to her children after Manasse’s baptism Kalman Cinka drinks with his family before his godson Manasse Berki’s baptism chats to his daughter-in-law Renata at her home daughter of Zoltan Berki and Renata Horvat Horvat holds her son Milan Berki as he is examined by a doctor Renata Horvat smokes a cigarette as she holds her son Smoke rises from chimneys in the town fo Borsodnadasd A window looks out from the remains of an abandoned steel factory in the town of Ozd Mostly I like to photograph personal stories and to present the everyday My earliest memory of photography is taking pictures at a steam locomotive grand prix with my dad at 14 I never consciously wanted to be a photojournalist but photography has always been present in my life I began to look at it as a potential method of earning money I had to photograph the Harlem Globetrotters entertaining passengers in one of Budapest’s underpasses Unfortunately they were not where they should have been I learned the lesson of a lifetime that day that a photographer should always arrive much earlier than the official start time I had to follow a Hungarian climber going up Manaslu I learned that I could accomplish much more than I had ever believed before I have come to realise that I can take much much better pictures if I treat my subjects completely equally It will show in the frames if the photographer is completely uninterested Don’t opt for the easy route; if you are bored I respect the retired photojournalist Imre Benkö the most as he is still enthusiastic about photography and is constantly striving for renewal and change I shoot any kind of image that my boss tells me to: protests I have been taking photographs since I was a teenager but at first I only shot pictures of anything that didn’t move and wasn’t alive It was one of my biggest challenges later on to learn to photograph the human face and figure and capture motion in a still image My camera became another limb while I was in high school and there was little question that I would go on to a photography school after I graduated Classes for me were mostly just paperwork though I learnt at the daily newspapers where I was an intern I learnt a tremendous amount from the old-school photographers and editors who worked with me and who gave me an opportunity to go out into the field and publish any photographs that were good It may be sad but I don’t remember my first assignment When I went out into the field with senior photographers it was their assignment but sometimes I got a frame or two published as well typically human-interest pieces - an old woman with her chickens in her back yard One early breakthrough in my career came in 1998 when nobody on staff at the paper where I was interning had time to go and cover a flood in the Ukraine I went and did the story and published a multi-page feature in my paper at the time came back to Budapest and published the entire lot in one batch That experience taught me to seize the opportunity and take the jobs nobody else wants The assignment that left the biggest mark on me was the toxic flood of red mud in the Hungarian villages of Devecser and Kolontar Not only was I able to focus on one single story for a few days but my coverage also gained exposure I had never achieved before It was the first time I felt the effect a global news agency can have on a local community Sending these images to the far corners of the globe helped humanitarian groups collect millions in donations to help the reconstruction so the people affected could somehow restart their lives It felt great to be a part of that chain of events the biggest challenge for me was to learn to document human stories I had to learn to engage with people on an emotional level to show more than just their outer shells The piece might be about a family getting ready to go on a religious holiday a woman going through plastic surgery or tourists getting drunk on a Friday night – there’s always more to the story When I do my job right you get the feeling you know what I’m showing you you never know who your viewer will be; it might be someone in a small village in Brazil or a skyscraper in Hong Kong My job is to tell the story as vividly as possible and leave as few questions unanswered as possible My biggest lesson has been learning to save my files immediately Never leave images on your memory card and go out on an assignment again saying “I’ll do it later” – that’s how you lose images or run out of space In other words: respect the work you have already done and have the diligence to make sure you don’t lose it Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times 'Talent is not enough if you are a Gypsy’ - says Gabor - ‘Not in Hungary he turned his attention to his paintings and started working on one of his new pictures in the small He puts new layers on the canvas with his brush with confidence He currently works on a more extensive painting in memory of his old friends who inspired and guided him He wants this picture as a tableau of the Hungarian Gypsy intellectuals lit a cigarette and continued with his tales He talked about the tough Gypsy life he got in his town He spoke of the metal factory (once the biggest in the region) where he worked for 24 years as a labourer while he continued painting in his spare time but nothing could stop my desire to paint.' He smiled proudly with the face of a survivor I buried my soul with her; I had two such difficult years that I almost couldn't make it through Forty years of marriage and then two years of loneliness almost consumed me but I persisted and did not stop believing that I got my reward for my suffering I have recently found a new love; I am trying to build a new era’ As I was setting up the portraits with Gábor we started talking about the time we met: when I was a teenager I had the privilege to exhibit some of my paintings alongside his more mature works and I remembered that I had been quite shy working alongside such a big master as Gábor had appeared to me he noted my confidence and laughed at how our roles had changed I can always dream freely and paint my colourful Gypsy world.' Ózd: the forgotten industrial town where Gábor worked and grew up Words and photographs by Bela Varadi for TT Vision The writer Akos Kertesz, 80, has just left his home in Hungary to seek asylum in Canada. In 2011, Ottawa registered almost twice as many applications from Hungarian nationals compared with the previous year, with 4,450 cases, up from 2,350 in 2010, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada figures A Liberal member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 Ms Mohacsi alerted the media and authorities about the systematic attacks on Hungarian Roma in 2008-9 which claimed six lives and injured 55 others The trial of four suspects opened almost a year ago in Budapest jobless and deprived of funding for her human rights organisation This article originally appeared in Le Monde Describing a New Year's Eve bar brawl in which several people were seriously injured and some of the attackers were reportedly Roma Zsolt Bayer said "a significant part of the Roma are unfit for co-existence These Roma are animals and they behave like animals." His commentary in Saturday's Magyar Hirlap newspaper criticised the "politically correct western world" for advocating tolerance and understanding of Roma who comprise 7% of Hungary's 10 million people and are often among its poorest and least educated citizens but a Fidesz spokeswoman said it would not take a position on an opinion piece Opposition parties said authorities must decide whether Bayer should be prosecuted for incitement against a minority they will stage a protest on Sunday outside Fidesz headquarters who also has written columns that have been criticised as anti-Semitic or racist served as the Fidesz press chief in the early 1990s He is one of the main organisers of the Peace March events in support of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government that have drawn huge crowds over the past year Bayer said in another column in Magyar Hirlap that his words had been willfully distorted and his only intention was to "make something happen" with the Roma issue "I want every honourable Gypsy to get on in life in this country and for every Gypsy unable and unfit to live in society to be cast out of society." 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emitted for every tonne of steel produced According to the International Energy Agency in 2010 the iron and steel industry accounted for approximately 6.7% of total world CO2 emissions But defiant steel makers in Europe have joined hands and forged a campaign to protect their interests ahead of the European Council meetings scheduled to hold in Brussels They insist that a climate policy should rather strengthen the industry so as to provide the products jobs and incomes for the policy’s successful implementation In a letter to Heads of State and government President and President-elect of the European Council and President and President-elect of the European Commission 60 CEOs of the European steel industry are demanding from the October EU summit to give a clear guidance that the EU’s new climate and energy framework will not impose regulatory direct and indirect CO2 costs “on globally competing European industries” Declaring that they share the EU’s ambition to find an effective response to the climate change imbroglio such response needs a policy that supports a healthy manufacturing industry with jobs on the continent “That would be a policy which benefits European society as a whole our employees are the foundations for a carbon lean There are not only four million jobs at stake in energy intensive industries in Europe but many more in the value chains and its dependent service sectors,” the CEOs wrote demanding: “Is it asking too much that at least the most CO2 efficient manufacturers in Europe must have no competitive disadvantage from EU climate policies vis-à-vis the global competitors “If no effective safeguard measures are taken the EU Emission Trading System could cost the EU steel industry about 70 to 100 billion Euros in the first period from 2020 to 2030 The measures presently in place to protect the industry will largely run out by 2020 Free carbon allowances for even the most efficient installation will have been reduced by 75% electricity prices for European industry are already twice as high as elsewhere and still rising enormously “It’s not sufficient to say that carbon leakage provisions should continue – they must continue at the level of 100% for the most efficient installations They cannot be reduced or phased out through the backdoor by the so-called correction factor “In March 2014 the heads of State promised that the decision of the new policy framework will provide the necessary basis for growth for its economic operators We the CEOs of the industry in Europe now trust in this promise.” Francesc Rubiratta i Rubio (Chiarman and CEO Dutrade Steels Products Processing and Trade Co) Dmitrij Scuka (Chairman of the Board of Directors Peter van Hullen (Georgsmarienhutte Holding GmbH) Others include: Mika Seitovirta (President and CEO Anton Chernykh (President of the Board and CEO Luca Zanotti (Vice-President and Managing Director Sergiy Pronin (Director for Economics and Business Dev Vorskia Steel Denmark A/S) and Vladmir Sotak (CEO Földrajzi hely:Ózd, Magyarország A Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal megbízásából és közreműködésével a SZIE Ybl Miklós Műszaki Főiskolai Kar Településmérnöki és Építészeti Tanszéke 2003 júliusában - egy konkrét fejlesztési pályázathoz – elkészítette a város kulturális örökség alapú városrehabilitációjának stratégiáját Ez volt az Ózd projekt egyik legjelentősebb stádiuma (az előzményeket korábban ismertettük).A KÖH ezzel először vállalta azt hogy a hagyományosan eddig végzett tudományos-védelmi és hatósági feladatellátásán túl ezeket az „eszközöket" is a fenntartható fejlődés irányainak előzetes meghatározásának szolgálatába állítsa továbbá az örökségi értékek tudatosításával a városfejlesztésnek olyan új szemléleti alappal szolgáljon mely ezen az egykori ipari területen eddig nem vetődött fel.A tanulmánytervben megfogalmazott fejlesztési javaslat mely nem a hagyományos műemlékvédelem módszereit használja lehetőségeket kíván felvillantani az integrált örökségvédelem keretein belül a jövőbe átmenthető természeti-környezeti emberi-társadalmi értékek komplex feltárásával és kezelésével Az integrált örökségvédelem ily módon tud eszköze lenni a helyi értékek mentén megvalósítható fejlesztések generálásának A cél a jövőben minél „szervesebben" használható értékek halmazának az integrálása a jobb életminőség érdekében.A tanulmány alapjául szolgáló azt megelőző örökségvédelmi értékvizsgálat komplexitásával szintén egyedülálló a hazai műemlékvédelmi gyakorlatban a teljes környezetet egységben kezelő szemlélet tudja a területfejlesztés szerves részévé tenni a kulturális örökség értékeit Az itt végzett örökségvédelmi értékvizsgálat-mindenek előtt a várost mint egységet tekinti – figyelemmel a tájban elfoglalt helyére a természeti környezettel alkotott kapcsolódási pontjaira és nem kevésbé a feltáruló városképekre.-vizsgálja és értékeli az önálló városszerkezeti egységeket – amelyek Ózdon jellegzetes módon a gyárterület és az egyes munkáskolóniák – és a városszerkezeti egységek egymáshoz fűződő viszonyát (városszerkezeti egységek továbbá az olyan nem tervezett hanem nőtt városszerkezeti kapcsolódási pontok is vagy történeti szempontból mára már együttesként értelmezhetők)-a vizsgálati kör harmadik nagy csoportját pedig azok az egyedi amelyek mára a városkép meghatározó elemeként értékelhetők.Ózd Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye második legnagyobb városa A hullámzó dombok közötti keskeny patakvölgyekbe polipszerű karjaival benyúló várost negyvenkétezer ember lakja A körülötte lévő agglomerációval mintegy nyolcvanezren tartoznak a térségbe századig visszanyúló ipari előzményekre épülve alakul meg 1845-ben az első vasmű a területen mely különböző névváltozatokkal 1990-ig folyamatosan működött Vonzáskörzetében a gyár igényeinek megfelelően fokozatosan vasúthálózat amelyet a városközpontot alkotó gyárépület és a környező völgyekben elnyúló települések gyárra irányuló tengelye jellemez festőiséget és korszerűséget példázó 19-20 hatalmas középületek a munkaadói szellemet tükröző színvonalas belsőépítészeti részletekkel – címszavakban ezek azok az örökségvédelmi értékek amelyek szokatlan sűrűséggel összpontosulnak Ózdon a város jó nyolcvan százalékát elsőrendű örökségvédelmi érdekű területté téve.A városrehabilitációs tanulmány az első részben a város örökségi értékeinek meghatározásával kijelölte azokat az örökségi modulokat amelyek a fejlesztés irányának alapjai lehetnek.Itt kell megemlíteni azt a tényt hogy a projekt nem védett műemléki területen indult tehát minden műemlékvédelmi lépést – a felfedezéstől a rehabilitációig – példaértékűnek szántunk egy olyan területen ahol a „kitörésnek" szinte ez az egyetlen lehetősége Az értékmeghatározás és annak tudatosítása a helyi és az országos döntéshozók körében tehát alapvető fontossággal bírt ezen a területen.A vizsgálat örökségi modulokat határoz tehát meg azaz alapvetésként számba veszi és meghatározza azokat a területeket melyek örökségi értékkel bírnak: országos műemléki jelentőségű területként ezeken belül egyedi védelemre méltó épületként hogy a helyi védelemre javasolt területek „védőburokként" foglalják majd magukba az országos védettségű műemléki jelentőségű területeket és az ezeken belüli egyedi védettségű épületeket.A központi örökségvédelmi modul foglalja magába a Törzsgyár és az előtte húzódó Középületsor területét nyolc egyedi védelemre javasolt épülettel valamint az ezt körbeölelő munkáskolóniák gyűrűjét: Velence-telep a Bolyki-modul és a Vasvári-modul azokat az egykori önálló településeket jelöli melyek most is őrzik sajátos arculatukat a városszövetben A tanulmány második része a városrehabilitáció gyakorlati megvalósíthatósága I ütemeként rövidtávú akciótervet dolgozott ki hiszen az eredményes és rövidtávon is innovatív hatással járó örökség alapú városrehabilitáció érdekében alapfontosságú kiemelni illetve meghatározni azokat a területeket és objektumokat amelyek „zászlóshajóként" képesek generálni a további fejlesztéseket Elsőként tehát itt is ezeknek meghatározása történt: Ózd sajátos természeti-domborzati történeti adottságaiból következően a fejlesztési stratégia alapjának a központi terület rehabilitációja tekinthető valamint a legfontosabb bevezető utak mentén az úgynevezett „város-kapuk" építészeti-környezeti újrafogalmazása.A három legfontosabb bevezető út Miskolc és Eger felőli bevezető utak menti egy-egy markánsan megjeleníthető örökségvédelmi területi egység körülhatárolása azért fontos - természetesen a központi területen meghatározott stratégiai fontosságú feladatok kijelölése mellett - mert a központ sem életképes a peremvidék nélkül ahogy az ózdi „településágak" sem létezhetnek a központi „törzs" nélkül.A 21 századi városfejlesztés nem nélkülözheti az ökológiai szempontok hangsúlyozását amelyek a tényleges környezeti hatások mellett a város lakóinak életminőségét Az előbbiekben meghatározott bevezető utakhoz kapcsolódó Hódos a patakmedrek és a patakokhoz kapcsolódó területek kisebb építmények revitalizációja nem csak a központ és a „városkapuk" kapcsolatát jelképezik hanem Ózd város szerves kötődését a várost övező változatos Földrajzi hely:Ózd, Magyarország körülötte a város hírességeiről mintázott szobrok Az Egy hely Padova 90.000 négyzetméteres ovális formájú terét látogatta meg mely a Vörös tér után a legnagyobb európai városi tér a Vicenza dombvidékén épült Villa La Rotondát mutassa be században alkotó reneszánsz építész Veneto tartományban 30 villát tervezett nemesi családoknak Palladio stílusa a brit építészetre és Thomas Jefferson amerikai nemzeti építészetére is nagy hatással volt “The intelligence gathered is that a migrant boat departed from Abene Cassamance in Senegal next to Kartong on the other side of the country and not from Kartong as claimed on social media,” he clarified “Our officers are on routine 24/7 patrol since 9 November 2023 considering the risk attached to this journey and the already loss of lives at sea,” he stressed “We all know that the current weather is bad; smugglers still making profit while our youths perish The information is almost 11 days since the boat departed which is beyond the usual days that boats arrive when they leave The Gambia.”  “The good side of it is that we are working with Senegalese authorities and sharing intelligence So if they think they can shift to that side soon we will get them because for us what's important is to make sure we don’t lose our youths in this journey we will protect our youths from dying by strengthening our collaboration with Senegal.” “We also monitor cross border movements of smugglers transporting migrants from one country to another where they believe could be a soft spot to launch their operations or carry out their activities,” Mr “Now they know we have tightened the knot on coastal belt so they would transport people in areas outside our jurisdiction.” “We also received information that some boats will arrive in Europe claiming to depart from The Gambia just because they have Gambian migrants inside the boat whereas their departure point is not within Gambian territory These are mainly departures launched close to our borders from the southern part of Senegal or North Bank area.” a Northern Hungarian town close to the Slovakian border and well-known for its former industrial production units would like to earn a prominent place on Hungary’s tourism maps they built a laser cannon sending beams to the sky from a chimney One of the chimney’s purposes is to commemorate the town’s industrial past Another is to draw public attention and tourists to Ózd The Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the national park’s directorate do not support its operation first in 2014 as the mayoral candidate of Jobbik his team overcame Fidesz 8 to 7 in the local council That means his majority in the council is small Janiczak presented something totally new to the locals of Ózd The town was known for its forge and lignite mines the town’s population grew to almost 50 thousand by the 1980s and they already sent the message of a local school and several poems to space with it Mr Janiczak said the new “laser chimney” will become a symbol of Ózd since it is the first of its kind not only in Hungary but also in Europe Janiczak added that they won the money for it (EUR 50,000) through an EU application Ózd is the third place in the world where a laser cannon operates on Hungary’s national day commemorating the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution and freedom fight the colour of the laser beam continuously changed from red to white and then green According to Blikk Mr Kovács regarded ‘The Guitar Hotel’ in Miami as an example The five laser cannons operating in Ózd can be seen even from 10 kilometres away The Hungarian tabloid added that the chimney was built using the bricks of the nine original chimneys of the forge The laser beam’s diameter is 36 centimetres Janiczak said the entire system was automatic and equipped with surveillance cameras and alarms The laser cannon has been operating since 20 October for 15 minutes every hour between 7 PM and 11 PM Most locals are happy about the development but some complained because of the lack of doctors and workplaces and would rather have spent the money on those issues Local Fidesz and the directorate of the Bükk National Park opposed the project Another opponent is the Hungarian Academy of Sciences They believe the laser beam causes irreparable damage to the sky He wrote that the lighting of some stadiums is stronger than this laser beam they would like to be on Hungary’s tourism map and attract tourists to Ózd That means his majority in the council is small… and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved The Hungarian state has acquired a 20 percent stake in Ózd Steelworks (Ózdi Acélmű) from Germany’s Max Aicher group for more than 30 million euros Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics announced on Monday The majority owner of the Ózd Steelworks is investing 60 million in the company to boost efficiency and broaden the production palette to include higher quality The state’s acquisition of equity in the company ensures the security of the existing 500 workplaces at Ózd Steelworks and could create more jobs ABB on Tuesday announced plans to shut down its circuit breaker plant in Ózd (NE Hungary) ABB acquired the plant from GE Industrial Solutions in 2018 ABB said output at the plant has fallen to levels which will soon make it unprofitable Some of the plant’s production lines will be relocated to ABB’s other bases in the region The decision will not affect the company’s other investments in Hungary ABB will help workers at the plant find new jobs or support their retraining The Innovation and Technology Ministry said László Palkovics will initiate talks with local leaders with a view to ensuring that ABB’s employees could find work as quickly as possible Palkovics will pay a visit to ózd on Friday to discuss the situation with the MP representing the region local council leaders and ABB’s suppliers Genshin Impact 4.0 update will be revealed soon and will supposedly release around the third week of August 2023 HoYoverse recently shared a Caesar cipher on their page leaving fans head-scratching with no extra information On the other hand, there are possibilities that it could be the release date of the upcoming update for the RPG We have constructed this article with all the options the cipher could offer the fans A Caesar Cipher is one of the earliest forms of encryption that could be attained by shifting alphabets in a word by specific steps This might look gibberish on regular observation “eightonenine PARIS NYC TOKYO TAIPEI” which doesn’t mean much It could be possible that something might be released on August 19 (8/19) to specific cities around the globe — Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) August 3, 2023 While people might believe it could be an anime reveal or release date for the next update, it cannot be said if they are true. However, the chances of it being a release date might be plausible as a special reveal event is scheduled for August 4 players might learn the release date for the next Genshin Impact update a new real-life event could be hosted in these cities as HoYoverse recently concluded their Summer Festival and might do one after a while the cryptic date could mean something other than a release or event date yet nothing is known or has been leaked earlier about it okay this brings back gravity falls flashback to me🥹 — Random guy down the moon (@Two_Sword22) August 3, 2023 Fans feel confused by the cryptic message from HoYoverse and have reacted in hilarious ways Few others referred to Disney’s Gravity Falls show “I thought the account was having a seizure.” Nonetheless it isn’t apparent to many as they had done nothing like this before That’s all we could gather to inform you about the message posted on the official Genshin Impact Twitter account. If you wish to get more updates from us, follow us. Also, if you want to read more articles from us, click here to visit our main section Amlan Roy Amlan is an Esports and Game Journalist currently employed at The SportsRush he completed his Media studies at iLead Kolkata He has been well acquainted with video games since he started gaming at the age of 8 He dived into the world of blogging in 2021 and wrote over 1000 articles across various media houses like Sportskeeda He is also experienced with film and music apart from gaming