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Jane Campion To Receive Locarno’s Honorary Pardo d’Onore Manor Award
Jane Campion will be heading to Switzerland this summer to receive an honorary award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running from August 7 to 17. The director will be presented with the festival’s Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for outstanding achievement in cinema in a ceremony at its landmark Piazza Grande open-air …
- Reuters
Forint wobbles boost euro's appeal among German investors in Hungary
The volatility of the forint has boosted support for introducing the euro among German investors in Hungary to its highest level in 13 years, a survey by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce showed on Wednesday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has no target date to adopt the euro and his cabinet has ruled out joining the single currency before Hungarian living standards rise closer to average levels of the European Union it joined two decades ago. The National Bank of Hungary, which cut its base rate by 50 basis points to 7.75% on Tuesday, recently warned that Hungary skirted a currency crisis in late-2022, when falls in the forint forced the bank into emergency rate hikes.
- The Monroe News
Four earn Exchange Club scholarships
Sierra Goins, Sophia Harman, Mara Vitale and Maureen Smith were awarded scholarships by the Exchange Club of Monroe. They will be honored May 16.
