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U.S. Embassy Budapest: Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute
- 16 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The U.S. Embassy Budapest is soliciting applications for the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institutes. Two four-week Institutes, offered in summer 2015, will accommodate up to 90 Fellows total. Each Institute, one at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and the other at Purdue University in Indiana, will be designed for 35 European students and 10 Americans, ages 16 to ...
Meet Lajos Simicska: Fidesz’s Enigmatic Oligarch
- 12 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
“From the time of its founding Fidesz did not have outside supporters. We wanted to avoid being beholden to domestic and foreign groups, and for this reason had to develop our own sources of income.” – Lajos Simicska, Fidesz economic director, October 1994 “Hungary needs large Hungarian companies in the financial sector, the insurance […]
OECD Report On Hungarian Economic Policy Reforms
- 10 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- business
Going for Growth, an annual study of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provides an analysis of the reforms put in place by each member country – among them Hungary – from the aspect of economic growth.
Stratfor: Orbán Government Faces Its Most Difficult Year In Office Since 2010
- 10 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
In its analysis of Hungarian politics in the year 2015, the U. S. geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm Stratfor, founded by Hungarian-born political scientist George Friedman, the institute assesses the challenges to be faced by Viktor Orbán’s government in 2015. In the forecast, Stratfor claims that 2015 will be the administration’s most difficult year since the second Orbán cabinet ...
More Hungarians Speak Foreign Languages
- 29 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The proportion of Hungarians speaking a foreign language has gone up by 12 percentage points in five years, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday, citing data by the Central Statistical Office. In 2006, only 25% of Hungarians spoke at least one foreign language whereas their proportion in 2011 was 37%, the paper said.
Folk Music - Can Hungarian Music Be The Next New Wave?
- 5 Dec 2014 7:00 AM
- entertainment
Fonó recently made it into 12th place among the world's top publishers of world music. So, maybe it's a bit too early qualify the recording market as DOA. There's a good chance that Hungarian folk music, dressed up just a bit differently, might become as hot on the world market as Africa or the Balkans were a few years ago.
Introducing Sára Zibrányi-Horváth – FirstMed Budapest’s Midwife
- 25 Nov 2014 12:00 AM
- health & wellness
Sára Zibrányi-Horváth, the always smiling OB/GYN assistant and midwife, is an indispensable colleague to our OB/GYN doctors. Sára is a strong link between the doctors and their patients and a source of most of pregnancy- and gynecology-related information. Let’s get to know her a little better.
AmCham Charity Thanksgiving Dinner, 25 November
- 20 Nov 2014 1:35 AM
- community & culture
Invite your family, friends, collegues and business partners to enjoy a festive buffet dinner, children programs and a live performance by Bálint Gájer*. Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. Thanksgiving ...
Orchids & Bromeliads, Vajdahunyad Castle Budapest, 14 – 16 November
- 13 Nov 2014 11:55 AM
- entertainment
CATTLEYA, the Queen of the orchids - in Vajdahunyadvár on the fall exhibition of Hungarian Orchid Society held 14-16 November 2014. This fall as usual the exhibition of Orchids and Bromeliads will be organized by Hungarian Orchid Society (HOS) in the Museum of Agriculture in Vajdahunyadvár.
U.S. Embassy Budapest: Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute
- 16 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The U.S. Embassy Budapest is soliciting applications for the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institutes. Two four-week Institutes, offered in summer 2015, will accommodate up to 90 Fellows total. Each Institute, one at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and the other at Purdue University in Indiana, will be designed for 35 European students and 10 Americans, ages 16 to ...
Meet Lajos Simicska: Fidesz’s Enigmatic Oligarch
- 12 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
“From the time of its founding Fidesz did not have outside supporters. We wanted to avoid being beholden to domestic and foreign groups, and for this reason had to develop our own sources of income.” – Lajos Simicska, Fidesz economic director, October 1994 “Hungary needs large Hungarian companies in the financial sector, the insurance […]
OECD Report On Hungarian Economic Policy Reforms
- 10 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- business
Going for Growth, an annual study of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provides an analysis of the reforms put in place by each member country – among them Hungary – from the aspect of economic growth.
Stratfor: Orbán Government Faces Its Most Difficult Year In Office Since 2010
- 10 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
In its analysis of Hungarian politics in the year 2015, the U. S. geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm Stratfor, founded by Hungarian-born political scientist George Friedman, the institute assesses the challenges to be faced by Viktor Orbán’s government in 2015. In the forecast, Stratfor claims that 2015 will be the administration’s most difficult year since the second Orbán cabinet ...
More Hungarians Speak Foreign Languages
- 29 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The proportion of Hungarians speaking a foreign language has gone up by 12 percentage points in five years, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday, citing data by the Central Statistical Office. In 2006, only 25% of Hungarians spoke at least one foreign language whereas their proportion in 2011 was 37%, the paper said.
Folk Music - Can Hungarian Music Be The Next New Wave?
- 5 Dec 2014 7:00 AM
- entertainment
Fonó recently made it into 12th place among the world's top publishers of world music. So, maybe it's a bit too early qualify the recording market as DOA. There's a good chance that Hungarian folk music, dressed up just a bit differently, might become as hot on the world market as Africa or the Balkans were a few years ago.
Introducing Sára Zibrányi-Horváth – FirstMed Budapest’s Midwife
- 25 Nov 2014 12:00 AM
- health & wellness
Sára Zibrányi-Horváth, the always smiling OB/GYN assistant and midwife, is an indispensable colleague to our OB/GYN doctors. Sára is a strong link between the doctors and their patients and a source of most of pregnancy- and gynecology-related information. Let’s get to know her a little better.
AmCham Charity Thanksgiving Dinner, 25 November
- 20 Nov 2014 1:35 AM
- community & culture
Invite your family, friends, collegues and business partners to enjoy a festive buffet dinner, children programs and a live performance by Bálint Gájer*. Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. Thanksgiving ...
Orchids & Bromeliads, Vajdahunyad Castle Budapest, 14 – 16 November
- 13 Nov 2014 11:55 AM
- entertainment
CATTLEYA, the Queen of the orchids - in Vajdahunyadvár on the fall exhibition of Hungarian Orchid Society held 14-16 November 2014. This fall as usual the exhibition of Orchids and Bromeliads will be organized by Hungarian Orchid Society (HOS) in the Museum of Agriculture in Vajdahunyadvár.