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Press release 

This press release is being issued with the support of the Embassies of Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and The United States. We represent countries whose companies provide the majority of Hungary's foreign direct investment.

As friends of Hungary who have witnessed its recent difficulties and its concerted efforts to tackle the effects of the global economic crisis, we look forward to the recent encouraging predictions of renewed economic growth in Hungary becoming a reality.
An important component of that predicted growth will reflect the decisions taken by current and potential foreign investors, many of whom come from the countries we represent. It is therefore with great concern that we hear of significant new instances of non-transparent behaviour affecting investors in such areas as public utilities, broadcasting, and elements of the nation's transport infrastructure. These reports could hinder the investment for which Hungary, like every other country, is competing.

As the global economy recovers, foreign investors will make their own decisions about where they will commit their resources. As friends of Hungary, we hope that the investment climate here remains one that makes the nation an attractive destination for those resources, rather than the opposite.
Transparency can be a critical competitive advantage. Passing, implementing and enforcing new anti-corruption legislation could be an important factor in helping meet the aspirations of Hungary’s citizens for renewed economic growth, and prosperity.

 
 Umfrage "Schweizer Revue" DE

 Sondage à propos de la "Revue Suisse" FR

Lukas Bärfuss, born in Thun, Switzerland, in 1971, is one of the most successful dramatists to emerge in recent years and his plays are staged all over the world. Bärfuss was voted playwright of the year in 2005 in a poll of reviewers featured by the magazine Theater heute. Amongst many other awards is the important Mühlheim Dramatist Prize. Most recently he received the Anna Seghers Prize, an international prize for emerging authors. He lives with his wife and two children in Zurich.

He will read on 9 March 2010 at 6 p.m. in Goethe Institute (1092 Budapest, Ráday u. 58.). The reading, moderated by Imre Kurdi is in German with Hungarian simultaneous translation.

After the reading you are also welcome in Sirály (1061 Budapest, Király utca 50.) where the theatre ensemble Rakpart Szabad Úszóművek will play his play "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents" in Hungarian at 9 p.m. Tickets are available for HUF 2000.-

© Institut Français

You are welcome to attend the free programs of Fête de la Francophonie 2010 in Budapest, Debrecen, Györ, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged between 5th and 27th of March. You will find for sure some interesting events, ranging from an exposition on comics over cinema, poesy and music to gastronomy, organised jointly by Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Madagascar, Moldavia, Morocco, Rumania, Switzerland and Tunisia.

We would like to highlight the exhibition Comics Country Switzerland at the French Institute from 16th March till 27th March. On 27th of March you can try the Swiss speciality “raclette” at the Museum of Ethnography.

For detailed information please visit:  www.francophonie.hu.

Frank Martin's (1890-1974) piece was first shown in Basel in 1942. It then disappeared during World War II for a long time only to be rediscovered in 2008.
At the Hungarian première on Friday, 26 February 2010 at 8 p.m. in the Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre three major institutions are cooperating in a unique way, namely the Hungarian Dance Academy, the Liszt Academy of Music and the Orchestra of the Haute École de Musique de Genève.

Choreographer and Director: Antonio Gomes
Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy
Singing Coach: Éva Marton
Scene and stage lights: Bert De Raeymaecker
Costume designer: Natália Gyulai

© Andrássy Gyula Deutschsprachige Universität Budapest

You are welcome at the lecture of Prof. Dr. Alois Riklin from the University St.Gallen about „Politische Erfindungen: Ideen- und verfassungsgeschichtliche Wurzeln des demokratischen Rechtsstaates“ at the Andrássy Gyula University (1088 Budapest, Pollack Mihály tér 3.) on 23 February 2010 at 7 p.m.
The lecture will be held in German without translation.

Registration: +36 1 266 3101 / 204 or  tunde.bokor@andrassyuni.hu

On 27 February 2010, 7 p.m. Elisso Bolkvadze from St. Petersburg will give a concert at the old Academy of Music (1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty utca 35) 

On programme:

BEETHOVEN: C-dúr szonáta op.2/3
CHOPIN: E-dúr scherzo op.54
M. SOGNY: ENTREVISIONS
CHOPIN: h-moll szonáta op.58

Elisso Bolkvadze was born in Tiflis, Georgia and grew up in a family of poets and literati.
At the early age of four Elisso was accepted by a school for highly gifted people in Tiflis and performed her first concert with orchestra when she was seven. She worked with different professors at the conservatory and at the same time attended master class lessons by Tatiana Nikolaeva, Lev Naumov and Serge Milshtein.
In 1995 Elisso Bolkvadze met composer and pianist Michel Sogny in Paris, France. Sogny was enthused by the fragile musician, nurtured her enormous talent and had a major influence on Elisso's musical future. 

Tickets are available for HUF 2000

© Swiss Embassy

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Biaggini from the University Zürich gave a lecture about „Die Integrität von Staat und Verwaltung“ at the Andrássy Gyula University (1088 Budapest, Pollack Mihály tér 3.) on 15 December 2009 at 18:00.
The lecture was held in German without translation. 

© Hans Peter Klauser

Switzerland, the Swiss. There are numberless hasty and imprudent stereotypes about its economy, its indifference to social problems, its bank world, and meticulous pedantry. We, on the other hand, believe that Switzerland can have another side as well. Just like Hungary, or the Hungarians, or any other nation or country. We invoke photos of Hans Peter Klauser never displayed before in Hungary in order to avoid further explanation of the above statement for our visitors. Moreover, they will see photos that belong to the front rank of European documentarist photography from the middle third of the twentieth century. (Károly Kincses) 



The exposition can be visited from December 10, 2009 till January 24, 2010 in the Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House (1065 Budapest, Nagymező u. 20. Tel: + 36 1 473 2666,  maimano@maimano.hu ,  www.maimano.hu) on weekdays 14:00-19:00 at weekends 11:00-19:00.

"Swiss Mirror" with Swiss related articles came out as the supplement of the daily newspaper Népszabadság© on Friday, 4th of December, 2009.
To enjoy the Swiss supplement, please download the four pages from the link at the right side.

Alexandre bis © Theater Biel Solothurn

2009 Szeged hosts Mezzo's Opera Competition and Festival for the second time. This year’s competition seeks to discover not only the best new voice, but the best stage presence.

Theater Biel Solothurn, from Bienne, Switzerland will perform at the festival on 9 and 10 November 2009 at 7 p.m. in Szeged National Theatre (6720 Szeged, Deák Ferenc utca 12.) 



Programme:

Bohuslav Martinu: Alexandre bis
Opera buffa in one act
Libretto by André WURMSER

Maurice Ravel: L'Heure Espagnole
Opera buffa in one act
Libretto by FRANC-NOHAIN

Competition roles:
Philomène / Concepcion (mezzo-soprano) Friederike MEINEL (Germany)
Oscar / Gonzalve (tenor) Péter BALCZO (Hungary)
Alexandre / Ramiro (baritone) Stanislaw KIERNER (Poland)

Performers:
Das Portrait / Don Inigo (bass) GYÖRGY Levente
Armande (soprano) Alessandra BOËR
Torquemada (tenor) Konstantin NAZLAMOV

Accompanied by the Szeged Symphonic Orchestra
Conductor: Harald SIEGEL

Set Design: Martin WARTH
Costume Design: Ildikó DEBRECZENI

Director: Bertalan BAGÓ

 www.operacompetition.hu

© Swiss Embassy

 
Mr. Mauro Dell’Ambrogio the State Secretary for Education and Research will give a lecture about “Bildungspolitik im frühen 21. Jahrhundert“ at the Andrássy Gyula University (1088 Budapest, Pollack Mihály tér 3.) on 4 November 2009 at 18:00.
The lecture will be held in German without translation.

Registration: +36 1 266 3101 / 204 or  melinda.matisz@andrassyuni.hu

„The Fortress“ © Fernand Melgar

Come and watch with us the movie „The Fortress“ from Fernand Melgar at Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. 

Using a pure docu style unencumbered by direct-to-camera interviews, Fernand Melgar takes his observational but still impassioned eye into a Swiss detention center for asylum seekers in "The Fortress." Of course, there's no such thing as purely objective cinema, and Melgar, along with top editor Karine Sudan, picked whom and what to focus on, but they've succeeded handsomely in presenting a largely balanced and engrossing look at the problems facing both staff and applicants. Docu deservedly took home Locarno's Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present. 
 www.laforteresse.ch 

Screenings: 
5 November 20:30 in Cinema Cirko-gejzír (Bp., V. Balassi B. u. 15–17. Tel.: +36 1 269 1915)
8 November 18:00 Cinema Toldi (Bp., V. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36–38. Tel.: +36 1 472 0398) followed by a discussion with the director Fernand Melgar.

Please find more information about the festival here:  www.verzio.ceu.hu

© Swiss Design in Hollywood

 The exhibition Swiss Design in Hollywood was created with the aim of retracing the work of contemporary Swiss artists and their impact on the creation of the visual world and digital imagery of international film productions and video games.
The film industry is one of the most important cultural contributors of the modern era. Few know that in the past decades a number of artists with strong links to Switzerland have successfully participated in the conception design of the characters, fantasy creatures and sceneries dominating the universe of films and video games. Today, many of these artists are working on some of the most publicly-recognised projects (including animated films) and are leaving an enduring mark on popular culture, although their contribution is largely unknown.
The exhibition consisting of tables and film sequences focuses on the personal influence of Swiss designers and illustrators – whether independent or employed by the big special effects studios – on the aesthetics of film production, without forgetting their personal creations.
This exhibition in partnership with Budapest Design Week Budapest 2009 can be visited until 31 October Tuesday-Saturday between 12:00 and 18:00 in the Ponton Gallery (1015 Budapest, Batthyány u. 65.).

Heute sind alle Länder der Welt angehalten, die vier Genfer Konventionen zu respektieren. Die Konventionen verpflichten die Staaten, die Opfer von Kriegshandlungen zu schützen. Auch die Schweiz engagiert sich.

© Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur

17 July 2009 - 20 September 2009
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Palace of Arts
Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095

Exhibition with Luis Buñuel, Walker Evans, Theo Frey, the Workers' photography from the Netherlands, Kálmán Kata and others

Up till recently, we had no direct experience of the nature of the Great Depression; we only gathered information on it through contemporary documents and images. The photographic series of the time have become models of photojournalism, as well as representing outstanding examples of photo art, with often referenced pictures of symbolic value. Their effect has determined the major iconographic characteristics of the socially sensible approach.

Commissioned by the American Farm Service Agency (FSA), famous photographers, including Walker Evans (1903–1975), documented the daily life of “rural folk who desired and were struggling to improve their lot”, thus creating an enduring collective picture of the American nation.
Evan’s activity was unique not only to America at that time. This exhibition also presents the work of renowned or less-known photographers from different geographical regions. These are images by artists who deemed it important to depict the daily reality of the economic crisis and the painfully catastrophic social inequalities that are still so apparent today. By depicting the general concept of social inequality on the level of local daily life with such a dramatic power, they also revealed possible means of solidarity. Such is the work by renowned Swiss photographer Theo Frey (1908–1997), represented in this show by a series expressing the shocking poverty of peasant families living among the Swiss mountains, as well that of Kata Kálmán (1909–1978), with Tiborc, a photo-sociographical series that became a crucial work for the Hungarian ‘village research’ movement of the 1930s. The interwar period and the effects of the Great Depression were very sensitively documented by those working-class photographers who focused on the life of urban workers. In Holland they were called the arbeidersfotografen, in Hungary they were associated with the Labour Circle (Munka-kör). The latter staged the first exhibition of photojournalism in Szolnok, the 1932 From Our Life, which was later banned. The exhibition also features Luis Buñuel's soul-stirring film of 1932, Land Without Bread.

Switzerland was integrated in the Schengen area on 12th of December 2008

Consequently, persons who are in possession of a valid Schengen visa don’t need anymore a visa to enter Switzerland, as long as the reason for their stay is a non-profit one and the due of the stay is not longer than three months in a semester.

Furthermore,

• Citizen of a country, which does not corporate to the EU or the EFTA, but who are in possession of a Hungarian residence permit
• Including the members of foreign embassies and international organisations, who are in possession of a card of accreditation in Hungary

do not need anymore a visa to enter Switzerland.

The mentioned persons are asked to take along their passport, which has to be valid at least three months longer after the day of departure from Switzerland – and the title of residence in Hungary, which has to be valid at least until the day of leaving Switzerland.

For further information see the link about visa on the right side.

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Condition of entry for Hungarian citizen

Hungarian citizen are allowed to enter Switzerland without a visa, independently from the reason for their stay, just by presenting their valid national identity card or their valid passport.

Stay longer than three months in Switzerland

Hungarian travellers who would like to stay longer than three months in Switzerland, have to present themselves at the appropriate cantonal authority of migration in Switzerland. This authority decides in matter of residence permit in Switzerland

For further information, please see the internet site of the Federal Office of Migration in Switzerland FOM on the right hand side or contact the Swiss embassy in Budapest.

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Liaison Office in Warsaw also operates in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Anyone from these countries planning to implement an artistic project connected in some way with Switzerland is cordially invited to submit an application. The next deadline is 15th of September 2008.

Details can be found at:  Pro Helvetia Warszawa

Swiss Contribution: The Hungarian Framework Agreement signed in Bern on 20 December 2007

On 20 December 2007, the President of the Confederation and head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Micheline Calmy-Rey and Federal Councillor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Doris Leuthard signed the ten bilateral framework agreements with the States that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Cyprus. This means that Switzerland will be able to start applying the Contribution from the beginning of 2008. For more information, please click on the links on the right side.