GUSZTÁV BÁGER is professor emeritus at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the Head of the Economic Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance, and in 1992, he became the Head of the International Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance. From 2003, he was
SZILÁRD BIERNACZKY, CSc, retired associate professor, music and ethnographic researcher, Africanist, book publisher, poet, and translator. His awards include the Károly Kós Prize and the Iroko Lifetime Achievement Award. His main research areas are Hungarian, Italian, and African literature, musical and oral traditions. Dr Biernaczky is the author and editor
Árpád Kadarkay, who became an ever-responsive reader, then a house author, then a personal friend of the Hungarian Review team, deceased in his home in Tacoma, Washington, USA, in late November 2015. Born in the village of Kesztölc, Hungary, in 1934, he lived through many hardships during the War and
CITY DESTINIES, HUMAN DESTINIES The cover photo of our March issue shows a detail of the new illumination of the structure of Margit Bridge in Budapest, designed and built by a French engineer in the famous Eiffel team (1876), and recently restored to much of its original splendour. Budapest illumination
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given
In the first article in this November 2012 edition of Hungarian Review, our regular columnist Péter Ákos Bod contemplates the missed chances of the Hungarian capital. In his view, the dreams of the early 1990s that Budapest would become a regional hub have not been realised. Such recent developments as the
Early morning on the Buda shore, just beside Liberty Bridge, a smudged, autumnal sun rising lazily over Pest. The Danube is low, and a floating landing stage, moored to the bank, is surrounded by the flotsam and jetsam, tree trunks and branches of the old river. A passenger boat comes
There is no question mark after the title of John O’Sullivan’s thoughtful and provocative essay “Sovereignty or Submission”, with which we lead this summer edition. With his revised version of the Preface to John Fonte’s new book Sovereignty or Surrender – again without a questionmark – we are pleased to
As this, May 2012 edition of the Hungarian Review goes to press, the Hungarian Parliament is electing a new President. In his inaugural address, János Áder shed his party shoes to appeal to his fellow countrymen and countrywomen to turn their backs on what he called “sterile, selfish, egotistical discord…
When asked on one occasion how Poland managed to post a year of moderate growth in 2009, when the rest of Europe stumbled drunkenly into the red, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk famously remarked “we were lucky!” Everyone needs a certain amount of luck in politics, and Viktor Orbán’s
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