Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet published an interview with President and Rector Michael Ignatieff on November 5, 2016. The Hungarian article can be found here, and the English translation is below.
“George Soros Can Defend Himself”
Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet published an interview with President and Rector Michael Ignatieff on November 5, 2016. The Hungarian article can be found here, and the English translation is below.
“George Soros Can Defend Himself”
Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs published a comprehensive summary about the first phase of CEU’s campus redevelopment. The article emphasizes that the university’s mission of openness is reflected in the interior of the new buildings, and that two facilities, a coffee shop and a restaurant are open to members of the local community.
Due to copyright regulations, the article is available in the weekly (pp. 30-31. Nezz be hozzank! A CEU rekonstrukciója)http://www.prae.hu/index.php?aid=30435&route=news%2Fnews - Hungarian news portal prae.hu reports: The 13th Verzio Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, organized by the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) will take place from Nov. 8-13 in Budapest and from Nov. 17-19 in Pecs. There will be 60 films from 37 countries shown.
http://librarius.hu/2016/11/06/meg-tudjak-josolni-ki-mennyire-lesz-sikeres-a-jovoben/ - Hungarian news portal librarius.hu reports: CEU network scientists Roberta Sinatra and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's research on quantifying the success of academics in the fields of physics, economics, ecology, cognitive science, neuroscience, biology and chemistry was published today in Science. Sinatra and Barabasi along with researchers at a number of other institutions in the U.S.
http://epiteszforum.hu/ok-az-idei-ev-homlokzata-palyazat-dijazottjai1 - Hungarian news portal epiteszforum.hu reports: CEU’s new buildings were awarded Austrian construction company Baumit’s Façade of the Year Award in the public buildings category for the “simple, clear and functional design”. The award was created to acknowledge outstanding facades constructed in Hungary every year.
http://index.hu/gazdasag/defacto/2016/11/07/a_foglyul_ejtett_magyar_nemzet/ - Hungarian news portal index.hu’s blog Defacto posted its latest article with the title “News Concealed in Return for Money?” The article investigates whether it is possible to document that the Hungarian government is endangering press freedom.
http://hirtv.hu/magyarorszageloben/kilatasok-1370243 - Hungarian commercial television Hir TV interviewed Laszlo Csaba, professor at CEU’s Department of Economics on the occasion of the Hungarian economy regained traction according to the latest economic indicators. Csaba was also asked about the expected economic challenges for 2017.
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Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports: European Union members must strengthen dialogue and reinforce the common values upon which the EU was built, in order to return to a spirit of compromise and common solutions, according to Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Roth was speaking at the conference “Effects of Conditionality and Post-Conditionality on the Quality of Democracy in EU Member States and Beyond,” held Nov. 8 by the CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES).
http://24.hu/belfold/2016/11/09/a-preziben-elarultak-mitol-lehet-szexi-egy-vallalkozas/ - Hungarian news portal 24.hu reports: According to Noemi Alexa, assistant professor at the CEU Business School, a CEO from the start has to make efforts to create a company culture that is in accordance with his or her own convictions, and also has to live these values.
http://hvg.hu/vallalat_vezeto/20161115_innovatorok_lista_changemakers#rss - Hungarian news portal hvg.hu reports: The 2016 New Europe 100, the list of central and eastern Europe’s brightest and best people and organisations that change the region’s societies, politics or business environments and displaying innovation, entrepreneurialism and fresh approaches to prevailing problems was published yesterday.