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
Missed Changes and New Prospects The Hungarian economy has lately lost ground to its neighbours and economic rivals – a phenomenon I wrote about recently, when I looked at the very hard landing of the Hungarian national airline (Magyar Szemle, 2012, issues 5–6). So if we ever had the ambition
On the Eve of the December 2012 Parliamentary Elections NT: Parliamentary elections will take place in Romania on 9 December. What is at stake? ChM: At stake is a power struggle between President Băsescu and the new Parliamentary majority. The latter is mainly the result of the collapse of the former ruling
PET output in Hungary in numbers: Annual output: 1.8 billion bottles/year, cca: 50,000 tonnesAnnual collection: 12,000 tonnesRecycling: 30–35% of the annual collectionPET material ending up on dumpsites: 38 thousand tonnes 1. The Good Old Days The car-park behind the Fehérvári Road market once held one of the treasures of Communist
UNESCO and the world of science are celebrating the Centenary of János Szentágothai (d. 1994), the imaginative Hungarian neuro-anatomist, who developed a new, three- dimensional model for the functioning of brain from the 1960s. Szentágothai tutored generations of young brain researchers at Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, who have
Karl Lamers (born 1951), Deputy Chairman (CDU–CSU) of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag since November 2006, and President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since November 2010, visited Budapest on 5 October. He met Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi, and was the keynote speaker at the 20th anniversary celebration of
Cardinal József Mindszenty was almost the first post-war European figure to become a symbolic victim of totalitarianism. His arrest and trial were almost simultaneous with the Greek crisis, the Truman declaration and the Czech communist coup that between them marked the start of the Cold War. He was selected by
An amazing thing, the Gutenberg Galaxy: if it did not exist, it would have to be invented; but as it already exists it ought not to be left to decline for it has preserved so many things that, were it to be lacking or absent, we would be beings without
When ten thousand Hungarian refugees first set foot on British shores after the crushing of the 1956 Revolution they found out to their great disappointment that an important factor was missing from urban life in this otherwise hospitable country. There were plenty of pubs and tea rooms but no espresso
Excerpts (II.) Is it the reader who makes the book? What struck me as incredible while reading 1984 was not the world view of the novel, but the fact that this world view came from an English author. To me, a stranger to England but familiar with what the writer was fighting
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