„For three men… reads the poster for the classic western, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ (1966), ‘the civil war wasn’t hell, it was practice.” “A bounty hunting scam
European Energy Security NT: Hungary and Slovakia have just signed an agreement to build a new gas pipeline linking the two countries. Last October a new, 100 km gas pipeline was
When Hungary took over the EU Presidency on 1st January, it should have made for very satisfying news. The second Central European country to try its hand at the helm
Politics of bank rates The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), the Hungarian National Bank, raised the policy rate in January 2011, the third time since the change in government that took
As a specialist in civil and commerical law, I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to the restoration to political thinking in Hungary, after several years of conspicuous
About tolerance and ritual, and the problem of sincerity A conversation on the sidelines of the International Summer School of Religion and Public Life in Nicosia, Cyprus in July 2010.
The history of Christianity can be described as a battle against various superstitions, beliefs or pagan traditions – or those which are at least regarded as such. Christian ecclesiastical historiography
When in 1989 political change swept through Central Europe and the communist dominoes fell, Yugoslavia was in a deep economic crisis, aggravated by growing tensions between the six “Socialist Federal
Anti-Communist Partisans in the Romanian Mountains In 1990 in Romania, soon after the fall of the Ceauşescu dictatorship, 34 year old Ioana Voicu began searching for her real parents. She
On the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Ferenc Liszt … With courageous faith you spread the fame of Hungarian music, and in distant lands do not forget
The film was followed by a few moments of silence that felt like an eternity in the crowded Uránia theatre. Only afterwards was there applause, but subdued and careful, as
The Furniture Designers of Hungarian Art Nouveau As Anna Lesznai writes in her book The Garden of Eden (1918), “Where we stood, time was not passing,Thus our encounter became everlasting.” At that
An Essay on Language In his book Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Friedrich Nietzsche claims that “the people native to the Ural-Altaic language region (where the concept of the subject is
In September 1948 the famous poet Paul Éluard, perhaps the brightest star among the French Communist Party intellectuals, toured Central Europe. He visited Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where I met him
But listen to the end… Then nothing more… It changes its meaning. (Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus) Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon… (Wallace Stevens) For me Charon’s Ferry, Bruce
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Gergely Romsics: Nép, nemzet, birodalom. A Habsburg Birodalom emlékezete a német, osztrák és magyar történetpolitikai gondolkodásban 1918–1941 (People, Nation, Empire. The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Historiography
First of all we would like to congratulate you on the occasion of the launching of the Hungarian Review, a bold endeavour indeed. Let’s hope that this new publication will contribute
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