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The vaccination campaign of the Hungarian National Public Health and Medical Officer Service has inspired a public debate among the institution itself, doctors, politicians and ordinary people who are just not sure whether the...
This piece of mine, on the human cost of the political changes in eastern Europe in 1989, appears in the Morning Star . Instead of Western fast-food chains serving unhealthy junk food, the GDR, in common with other socialist...
Disillusionment with post-1989 life has tempted some to turn against democracy, not just neoliberal economics When I was a child in the 1960s, there was a photo in my history book. "Man market in the 1930s" was its title....
The collapse of the Berlin Wall, in November, 1989, was preceded earlier that year by the opening of the Iron Curtain in Hungary. Now, 20 years later, a new survey by Ipsos - a global online research group - indicates only one...
BUDAPEST.- Classic and contemporary masterpieces... Hungarian and international works of art ... World-famous artists and young and upcoming talents ... Thought-inspiring, ironic and provoking topics … And numerous exciting and...
It has been a pleasure, over the years, to watch the short, picturesque District VIII street - Krúdy Gyula, named after the writer known as the "Hungarian Proust" - transform from a rutty, pockmarked side-street, to the...
Continuing his journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Adrian Bridge tests the waters in Budapest . Budapest is a city of immense visual charm, its two distinct sides being neatly divided by the curves of the Danube Photo:...
How a diplomatic picnic helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe. Alois Mock and Gyula Horn take down the Iron Curtain separating Austria and Hungary Who would have thought that in the end the Iron Curtain would be brought...
Many communist leaders did very nicely thank you out of the people’s revolution Twenty years ago this month, the downtrodden people of eastern Europe took to the streets and rose up against their communist oppressors. It was...
Center for Hellenic Traditions, Central European University, Budapest; Archaeological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics'/Sub-project D7, University of Münster;...
