Married
Once we figured out, there is simply no way that our countries will let us get married, we ran off to Copenhagen to do it (just the two of us). The sign that gave it away was the “can the Albanian Government, issue a document that says they do not issue documents verifying…” (no joke). The story was similar, though less graphic, on the Albanian side as well.
Now comes the the multi-step process to get the Hungarian government to recognize that we got married in Denmark. Translate the document, (which is fast if you pay a lot), 3 weeks of originality check was pre-empted by running to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get some stamp. Then it takes 1 month to do something, and two months for the Hungarian government to put it in their records. The fact that this is an EU marriage is not helping at all. And only then we can apply for residency for Stela. Not before. This is, of course, problematic because Stela can only stay in Schengen for 90 days in any 180 day period.
So, what this means, if you have not been in the country for 3 months, you fly in and do all the procedures when you arrive, you will still have to leave Schengen for a few weeks to make sure you don’t run out of days allowed to stay in Schengen before you can start the residency proceedings. This is despite paying a fortune to have the translation ready very quick and unless the government gets done quicker with the paperwork than they promise. (Which I would not count on.)
Yeah…
Just joined Team Populism as the head of Team Survey
I just joined Team Populism as the head of Team Survey responsible for survey research on populist attitudes. Hoping to bring together a good group of scholars to study the subject. Check out Team Populism HERE.
Working hard on re-establishing twin studies in Hungary (Hungarian)
Twin studies conference we are organizing starting
Erin Jenne Discussing Our Research in the Monkey Cage
The tea party’s anti-Washington consensus (credit also to the lead author, Juraj Medzihorsky)
Associate Professor
Thanks for the committees that deemed me worthy of the promotion. (Please don’t look at the photo at the link.)
I will work hard to live up to it and move past it.
Tibi Kaszab and gang playing live
HERE is a recording from our regular place, the Polo Pub. (Reliably awesome home style Hungarian food BTW.) We did another recording shortly after at a place we only played once. Listen HERE.
About the Genetics of Politics (for Hungarian speakers)
I usually do not do popular media appearances, but here’s one about my research in the Hungarian media.