5152 találat erre a kifejezésre: "the newsroom" a(z) ÖSSZES rovatban

2005. december. 21. 18:54 HVG English version

Reconstructed baths of Budapest

Now that the Rudas baths have reopened, the people of Budapest can once again enjoy the pleasures of a proper
... attitudes towards cleansing the body and the soul were fundamentally different from Hungarian customs, the
"It is forbidden to enter the bath without first greeting the other guests. Argument should be avoided, especially over
... bear nor use arms," ran the bath bye-laws in 18th century Hungary. This strict etiquette was widely understood in Hungary at a time
... Europe, such baths were scarcely to be found. When, at the end of the 17th century, the English Doctors'

2005. december. 21. 18:42 HVG English version

Top list of Universities

Next week, HVG will devote a special supplement to a ranking of Hungary's colleges and universities. The challenge of the
... tradition of ranking colleges in Hungary, but its importance derives from the fact that Hungarian higher education is in
Preparing a league table is thankless task, since, with the exception of the leaders, everyone on the list is
... clear, how hard it is to find the common denominator linking statistics from diverse sources. For those who will be making university
... coming months, it is essential to know whether their time and money will be well spent at a given institution. The decision is made

2005. december. 21. 18:15 hvg.hu English version

Budapest Airport sold out!

airport operators have benefited from the appearance of budget airlines on the
were two kinds of airport. Those with inadequate traffic, and those with inadequate capacity. The former had to be mondernised
..., which has led to huge growth in private investment in the field, spurred on by privatisations in bother western and eastern Europe.
... airport operator by passenger traffic is the French company Aéroports de Paris (ADP). Last spring, the French government

2005. december. 21. 16:16 hvg.hu English version

Referendum anniversary

There was something in the air as the first anniversary of the referendum on dual citizenship approached. We
... from beyond the borders would arise to tear at their still-bleeding wounds (which did indeed happen), and here at home
This despite the fact that the government had pre-empted them all by moving a law in parliament on the status
... countries. (The Free Democrats abstained, saying there was no need for token constitutional change). Fidesz claims the
...: Viktor Orbán, assuming the role of parliamentary speaker, bade MPs rise for a minute's silence. (This reminded me and others of

2005. december. 19. 10:37 HVG English version

Is there a crisis?

Hungary is not yet in economic crisis, but it is in trouble, according to László Antal, one of Hungary's leading macroeconomists. The
... economist has no confidence in either the Finance Ministry's or the Hungarian National Bank's
© Bánkuti András HVG : It's becoming an increasingly common practice for the state not to pay, withholding wages, subsidies
..., education bursaries. Is the state bankrupt? What does a state bankruptcy look like? LA: I can't give you a precise definition, but
... bankruptcy in 1946, at the time of hyperinflation, when 90 per cent of money printed was destined to support state expenditure

2005. december. 12. 10:29 hvg.hu English version

Longer novels, less time spent on reading?

"People who write great novels are the ones who can afford to," remarked the literary historian Mátyás Domokos
His publisher, Jelenkor, is marketing it as a great novel of our times, hoping to both pre-empt and influence the critics' judgements
... took an even more elevated approach to his work when he said at the turn of the millennium: "You can only hope that there
... sales or by the number of pages is an extremely rough-and-ready approach. Critics agree that Géza Ottlik's School on the

2005. december. 12. 10:25 hvg.hu English version

NATO radar

The message is clear: the political decision was clear and timely, the fruit of dialogue and tolerance, it was
... environmentalists, a success for the civil sector, a success also for Hungarian constitutional democracy, and proof of our commitment
The Medgyessy and Gyurcsány governments worked tirelessly to exclude public opinion and environmental movements. They tried to create a
... accompli, to influence the media, to exploit economic arguments ("we'd have to pay for a change of plan"). They professed powerlessness
... made to NATO. The Horn and Orbán governments did much the same. And next year's government would do the same

2005. december. 12. 10:07 hvg.hu English version

Csaba László

The Visegrád four have no budget strategy, which is why they rejected Tony Blair's proposals, rather than giving them their serious
.... Hungary does not know what it wants to achieve with its National Development Plan, according to the CEU
hvg.hu: Why was agreement with the British prime minister so important? László: The Visegrád countries
... Slovakia - have a peculiar shared position. They have a common interest, for example in making sure regional development money goes to
... states and in preserving agricultural subsidies and the solidarity principle. We're seeing an emerging practice in the EU

2005. december. 11. 10:47 MTI Világ

Kihallgatták a brit trónörököst

Kihallgatták Károly brit trónörököst néhai felesége, Diana walesi hercegnő nyolc éve Párizsban bekövetkezett halálával kapcsolatban – írta a
az elvált Camilla Parker Bowlest; ez egyébként csak idén áprilisban történt meg. A The Sunday Times híre szerint a Diana-levél része
... a brit belső és külső elhárítás, az MI5 és az MI6 vonatkozó dokumentumaiba, sőt a két cég ügynökeit is meghallgatta. A The Sunday Times

2005. december. 08. 08:11 MTI Világ

Valamelyest növekedett Bush népszerűsége

népszerűségi mutatója - ez derül ki a The New York Times című napilap és a CBS által szerdán közzétett
A december 2 és 6 között telefonon végzett felmérés szerint, amely a The New York Times honlapján jelent meg, a megkérdezettek 40

2005. december. 07. 17:57 MTI Világ

Mel Gibson TV-sorozatot tervez a holokausztról

Televíziós sorozatot tervez Mel Gibson amerikai színész-rendező a holokausztról a The New York Times szerdai száma szerint. Az
cége, a Con Artists Production neve alatt fog futni. A The New York Times szerint néhány szemöldök a hírre összeráncolódott. A lap

2005. december. 06. 10:24 MTI Világ

A brit EU-költségvetési tervezetet bírálja a The Wall Street Journal

Tony Blair brit miniszterelnök EU-költségvetési tervezetével megsérti barátait, de megsérti az elveket is - szögezi le keddi számában a
írja szerkesztőségi kommentárjában a brit The Economist. A tekintélyes gazdasági lap emlékeztet: noha az Unió lakosságának mindössze

2005. december. 05. 10:52 hvg.hu English version

István Zvolenszky

For months, Paks nuclear power station has been placing full-page adverts in local and national papers testifying to the generator's
... bright future prospects, to its promise of carbon-free energy, and even about the cheapness of their
The head of the International Atomic Energy Authority was in Budapest recently at a conference and was received by our
... signals that our energy chiefs have almost achieved their dream of building two new 1000MW generators at the power station. Billions of
... spent on this project over many years. The main focus so far has been on securing an extension of the station's working

2005. december. 05. 10:46 hvg.hu English version

Median poll

The pollsters Medián scored a coup in our civil war-struck political environment. They managed to unite government and opposition
That's no mean achievement. This temporary ceasefire was inspired by some questions that Medián asked in a survey. They asked the
... residents of the Fidesz bastion on the southern Plain whether they could imagine János Lázár, the city's
... aggressively with their colleagues, physically abusing members of their families, obtaining property illegally or behaving hysterically in

2005. december. 04. 15:34 MTI Világ

A britek az agrártámogatáson faragnának

A The Sunday Times értesülése szerint a brit kormány EU-költségvetési javaslata évi 1 milliárd fonttal (365 milliárd forinttal) szeretné
leszerelni azokat a bírálatokat, amelyek szerint Tony Blair miniszterelnök a kelet-európai tagországoktól akar pénzt elvenni - írta a

2005. december. 02. 16:35 hvg.hu English version

On mission

Ferenc Somogyi, the foreign minister, has led a delegation of Hungarian diplomats to the Middle East. HVG.hu asked László
HVG: Hungarian diplomacy seems to have taken a renewed interest in the Middle East recently... Várkonyi: The Middle
... important for us. The two focuses of this visit are our meeting with the foreign minister of Bahain and attending
... anniversary of Rabin's death. We've managed to fit some other discussions in as well. The foreign ministers met in Jordan, and on

2005. december. 02. 16:24 hvg.hu English version

Bearers of truth

After 66 years, the BBC will shut down its Hungarian broadcast in mid-December. The British broadcaster espoused
"The war has ended. What are we going to talk about now?" asked György Tarján, head of the BBC Hungarian Service in summer
... one: at the time, the BBC was seriously wondering whether it should shut down its smaller foreign-language services. They
... British war propaganda purposes early in the war, with the total number of services rising above forty in the

2005. december. 02. 16:21 hvg.hu English version

Photocopiers in 1980s Hungary

For the west, photocopiers merely revolutionised office work in the 1980s, but in Hungary they stirred up political
When János Kenedi arrived in New York on a scholarship in 1982, the first thing he was told by the writer and sociologist
...! You can photocopy as much as you want!" In the city of freedom, Csalog was impressed less by the skyscrapers, Harlem or
... of Modern Arts than by the photocopiers scattered around the corridors of New York University. And they were freely

2005. december. 02. 16:13 hvg.hu English version

The millionaire philanthropist

I regret nothing, George Soros might sing. The 75-year-old is continuing his philanthropic activities and spreading democracy - even if
HVG: We were sorry to hear that the Soros Foundation is closing down in Hungary. We hope other Soros institutions won't go
...: Absolutely not. The Central European University's endowment has been raised to €400m, from which the university can draw
... by up to3 per cent a year. We gave a boost to the CEU's business school as well, advancing it €20m, but they can support themselves

2005. december. 02. 16:00 hvg.hu English version

Family affairs

abandoned their careers for an unblazed trail, asking about their private lives and the effect their choice has had on their
company. Money and career goals were the main factors. "We sensed that if my wife did not return to work they would get rid of her. I
... higher, as well. My wife continued to care for our daughter, taking the lead after work and at weekends." Both men were worried about
... a proper parent-child relationship. Péter remembers his child's first year thus: "I missed the moment when Ákos first started crawling