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        Good News for Home Owners in Hungary: Property Transfer Tax Exemption Period Extended
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        Orbital MUN 2026 – Young Delegates Unite to Debate Critical Global Challenges in Budapest
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        Hungarian AI Council Established
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  • Ferenc Kumin, Former Duty State Secretary For International Communications

    Ferenc Kumin, Former Duty State Secretary For International Communications

    Ferenc Kumin is an economist and political scientist. He holds two MAs from the Corvinus University of Budapest and from CEU, and is a PhD candidate at the former. His fields of interest have been political communication and campaigning, political effect on finances, e-governance and e-democracy, and functioning of the parliamentarian heads of states.

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  • Yves Giacometti, Former General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest

    Yves Giacometti, Former General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest

    Passions come and passions go, so the trick is to keep things percolating. For now, Yves Giacometti is into Budapest. “This is a city that needs to be discovered,” says the General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest, who arrived in “the Paris of Eastern Europe” in late 2010 and plunged into local culture with the aid of erudite guides, an all-Hungarian concierge staff and random encounters. “When it comes to getting a feel for a new city, I’m very selfish. I try to get everything I can from interactions with locals. The quicker I adapt to their world, the better.”

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  • Károly Rudits, Former LouLou Restaurant

    Károly Rudits, Former LouLou Restaurant

    Károly created, and after a few years' hiatus re-launched LouLou's Restaurant in Budapest, which then closed again.

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  • Xpat Interview: Sachi Okuyama, Owner of Okuyama no Sushi Restaurant

    Xpat Interview: Sachi Okuyama, Owner of Okuyama no Sushi Restaurant

    Sachi Okuyama-san, the owner of Japanese restaurant Okuyama no Sushi (located in the basement of the 'Kolosy House', Budapest 1036, Kolosy square 5-6.), was born on a small island in Japan and knows fish like the back of his hand.

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  • Xpat Interview: Michael LaBelle, Assistant Professor At CEU Business School

    Xpat Interview: Michael LaBelle, Assistant Professor At CEU Business School

    Michael LaBelle is an assistant professor at the Central European University Business School and in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU. He teaches courses on sustainability and innovation in business and energy policy .

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  • István Szabó,  Managing Director, Commercial Bank Head Hungary

    István Szabó, Managing Director, Commercial Bank Head Hungary

    Istvan first joined Citi in 1996 as an Operations Clerk in Citi’s consumer bank in Hungary. He left in 1998 to pursue other career opportunities and rejoined in 2003 as the deputy CEO of CitiLeasing Hungary.

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