CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 01/2018

SAVOIR VIVRE AMBASSADOR´S DRIVE
Vor seiner diplomatischen
Laufbahn war Perényi Professor
für Ideengeschichte an der
Uni Stockholm.
Prior to his diplomatic career
Perényi was a university professor
for history in Stockholm.
(„Welch ein Vergnügen“) – einen ebenso weiten Bogen
über die lange Historie, die Ungarn und Österreich
verbindet. Dank der Güte der Erfahrung, in die
er all die Dellen, die diese Nachbar- und Bruderschaft
über die Jahrhunderte hingenommen hat,
kleidet, verblassen selbst die jüngsten Unstimmigkeiten
zu einem Windhauch in den Zeiten.
„Zu viel Geschichte schadet dem Leben“, zitiert er
Nietzsche. „Zu wenig auch.“ Und lenkt damit den
Blick ebenso souverän, wie er den E-PACE beherrscht,
auf das Verbindende zwischen den beiden
Ländern. Darauf, dass Österreich Ungarns Handelspartner
Nr. 2 ist, oder dort als drittgrößter Investor
70.000 Menschen im Brot hält, und die Freundschaft
zwischen den Menschen schlichtweg „super“ sei.
Dieses Geschick ist es wohl, was einen Diplomaten
auch zum Staatsmann macht.
Jaguar E-PACE – das geschmeidige Raubtier
Jaguar E-PACE – the smooth predator
Der neue Jaguar E-PACE, seit Jänner 2018 im Handel, ist Made in Austria bei Magna Steyr und ganzer Stolz
des traditionsreichen Hauses Jaguar. Mit diesem kompakten SUV-Fünfsitzer ist Jaguar ein ausgenommen
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Genen. „Kompakte SUV müssen intelligente Antworten auf die Herausforderungen des täglichen Lebens
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funktionaler Integrität stellt die perfekte Lösung dar.” So ist es.
The new Jaguar E-PACE, available since January 2018 and produced in Austria by Magna Steyr, is proudly
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Jaguar E-PACE makes no consessions when it comes to space and practicability. In short: a smooth family
SUV with a mighty predator in its tank. Says Jaguar's chief designer Ian Callum: “A perfect solution.“
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ry, French and English in Stockholm and Uppsala,
and subsequently became professor for history at the
University of Stockholm. At the beginning of the
Gorbatchev era, he gave up his promising academic
future and moved to Vienna ”to be near my home
country“. Finally, after five years, bridged with various
jobs, he joined the diplomatic services of a new
Hungary and immediately was posted at the Embassy
in Austria which he is now heading. In between,
Perényi held high-ranking positions in Strasbourg,
at the European Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the Embassies in Paris and Morocco.
As a matter of fact, Hungary and Austria share a
centuries long, and sometimes delicate common history
which also has suffered a few bumps recently.
Quoting Nietzsche – ”Too much of history harms living.
Too less as well.“ – Perényi perfectly exhibits his
rare talent to cover all of them under one big arch of
kindness nourished by experience. He rather points to
the “super“ friendship between Hungarians and Austrians
and to the outstanding trade and investment activities
between the countries. That's a skill which sometimes
turns a diplomat into a statesman.
Just before János Perényi, Hungary's Ambassador
to Austria since December 2014, hops into the
new Jaguar E-PACE for CD's ”Ambassador's
Drive“ Nr. 8, he eye-caresses the smooth curves of
this SUV-predator and faintly remarks: ”Oh, against
this one I really wouldn't have anything.“ Then, with
a gentleman's sovereignty, distinguishing him as a sir
among Vienna's diplomats, he steers the E-PACE to
the doors of his countryman Mathias Szamos who is
running the best Hungarian pastry shop in town.
And on the way, he deeply digs into his remarkable
carreer which mirrors the history of his country.
In 1956, when he was six, his parents fled from
Hungary to Sweden where he later on studied Histo-
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PHOTOS: RALPH MANFREDA
Der ungarische Botschafter János Perényi
vor dem E-PACE im Gespräch mit CD-
Herausgeber Alexander Bursky (r.) und CD
Autor Rainer Himmelfreundpointner.
Hungary's Ambassador János Perényi in
fornt of the E-Pace, talking to CD's publisher
Alexander Bursky (r.) and CD's author Rainer
Himmelfreundpointner.
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