18 May 2012
Cirque du Soleil has been touring the world since 1994 with its show Alegría, and this weekend the circus troupe will seek to enchant audiences in the capital with their mixture of acrobatics, theatre and music. A polished act They can be expected to put on a consummate stage show – Cirque Du Soleil has…
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18 May 2012
Etyek is best known internationally as the site of the huge Korda Studios complex, which spearheaded Hungary’s apparently successful bid to become the “Hollywood” of Europe. But well before the likes of Brangelina and Bruce Willis became regular visitors to Hungary, the rolling hills around the town were more famous for their vineyards. This weekend,…
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18 May 2012
Jó napot kívánok (hello) or Tisztelt hölgyeim és uraim (ladies and gentlemen) are the typical phrases used by foreign managers giving talks to audiences in Hungary, before continuing in English or German. Not so with the Spaniard Javier Gonzáles Pareja, CEO of Robert Bosch Kft. since the end of 2011, who gave his entire speech…
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18 May 2012
A university probe into whether former Socialist PM Ferenc Gyurcsány copied a 1984 undergraduate dissertation has been abandoned. Pécs University rector József Bódis said on Tuesday that an investigatory committee had been “unable to draw a valid conclusion” because the work has definitely disappeared from the university archives. War over words, letters The investigation was…
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18 May 2012
A Portuguese man studying in Budapest has been missing since last Friday after jumping from a bridge into the Danube river. Goncalo Ferraz, 22, was joined by a friend, a French national, in an apparent case of student high jinks. The second man managed to swim to the shore, but an intensive police search had…
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18 May 2012
Economic analysts fear Hungary is heading for recession after gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2012. The Central Statistical Office (KSH), which on Tuesday issued the figure adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects, said it was 1.3 per cent down from the last quarter of 2011 and is…
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18 May 2012
Seasonally and workday-adjusted figures used for EU comparison show that Hungary’s economy declined 1.5 per cent in Q1 year-on-year. This is the first fall since the first quarter of 2010. The peak was reached in the first months of 2011, with a 2.3 per cent rise in yearly terms, and gradually dropped to a 1.2…
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18 May 2012
Italian-born conductor Riccardo Chailly leads the 230-year-old Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Palace of Arts this Friday in a Shostakovich and Brahms programme replete with musical motifs. Greek star performer Leonidas Kavakos is the guest soloist for Dimitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Originally written for virtuoso violinist David Oistrakh in 1947-8 but first played…
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18 May 2012
Not a zsemle bread roll, kifli crescent or burgonyás kenyér (potato bread) is in sight at this bakery overlooking Mammut shopping centre on District II’s Retek utca. Opened a few months ago by a young French pastry chef, à table! serves an array of baguettes, croissants or tartes au citron (lemon pies) that would be…
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18 May 2012
I saw something most peculiar today on my way back from the post office. A man on a bike, cycling along Üllõi út, wearing a helmet. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, I hear you say. But bear with me. Pinned beneath the straps of his helmet was his mobile phone. The phone itself…
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