Ulrich Minke is currently responsible for Hungary’s largest factory construction site, but in just a few months he will take charge of the most modern automobile factory of the Audi Group. At the topping-out ceremony in Gyõr this month he spoke in detail about how the construction work is progressing and the imminent production start.… Continue »

“Today is another milestone in the race to expand the Audi production network,” said Thomas Faustmann, CEO of Audi Hungaria Motor Kft., at the topping-out ceremony of their new car plant in Gyõr this month. The ceremony in the figure logistics hall was attended by guests including National Economy Minister György Matolcsy, Gyõr mayor Zsolt… Continue »

Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog promised closer cooperation with Roma rights groups when he said on Sunday that the integration of the marginalised ethnic minority is now being tackled at the ministerial level. After two years as the governmental state secretary in charge of issues of social cohesion, Balog was appointed last week to head… Continue »

The battle for the hearts and minds of Hungarians took a bizarre turn last week when, in apparent retaliation for the despoliation of a wooden statue erected to Admiral Miklós Horthy who served as head of state between 1919 and 1944, unknown assailants hung pigs’ feet on the bronze statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish… Continue »

Liliomfi first came into existence in 1849, a comedy apparently written in two days but which quickly became Ede Szigligeti’s best-known theatre play. So well-known, in fact, that it has had numerous reincarnations throughout the decades, from an award-winning 1950s film to ballet. It is the latter that ExperiDance – Sándor Román Company present at… Continue »

There are two ways of entering Gresham Restaurant. One goes past the porters stationed at the wrought-iron, peacock-fronted main gate of the Four Seasons Hotel on District V’s Széchenyi tér (square) and takes a turn to the right before having had too much of a chance to investigate the lobby’s stained-glass windows. The other uses… Continue »