GUSZTÁV BÁGER is a poet and economist. He 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
A Review of The Innocence of Pontius Pilate. How the Roman Trial ofJesus Shaped History by David Lloyd Dusenbury (London: Hurst &Co., 2021) The title is compelling. TheInnocence of Pontius Pilate brings back the sensation one always has while reading the Gospel. The spell of the narrative is such that
Anti-communism in Waugh’s Sword of Honour Ever since Tolstoy’s magisterial presentation of the battlefields in War and Peace, writers have been keen to take on the challenge of transforming the ordinarily horrific experience of war into a narrative work of scope and grandeur. The British novelist Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn
Outside or Inside? In the autumn of 2021, as a guest on the panel discussion on the topic ‘How to plan liveable cities for the future?’, the Japanese designer of the House of Music Hungary in City Park, Budapest, put it like this: The House of Music Hungary is being
A Family Story PREQUEL: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNISM One of my earliest recollections is of when I was around four years old—in the middle of the night, being carried in the pouring rain to a truck waiting in front of our house, on a street ironically named ‘Amerikai út’, which is
Hungary and the UN, 1956–1963Excerpt Hungary’s membership of the United Nations in December 1955 and the tangible change this brought to the country’s room for manoeuvre in foreign policy must have contributed to Hungary’s hopes and ever increasing political ferment in the summer of 1956. Henceforth it was not only
The Story of István VasdényeyPart I ‘All the outrages that must have been committed,and all the holy deeds that were done.’János Pilinszky ‘It was here that the outlines of our century were sketched […]. Like the props of the passion drama, almost all the tools of our civilization were immersed
János Hunyadi’s father, Vajk, came from Wallachia (now southern Romania) to the court of the Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxemburg, and received the estate of Hunyadvár (today Vajdahunyad in Hungarian and Hunedoara in Romanian, located in Transylvania, Romania) as a perpetual gift in 1409. János, who was born a few
Speech delivered at the inauguration of János Hunyadi’s statue inMarosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș, Romania), on 30 July 2022 I would like to thank everyone who played a role in the creation and placement of János Hunyadi’s statue. They are the ones who made this day possible. And I believe that today’s
An International Comparative Analysis INTRODUCTION This paper aims, first of all, to introduce various tax structures, as well as the criteria which may be applied by countries to the implementation of their specific tax systems. Subsequently, we will outline the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the tax system in
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