Angelika RegossiAngelika Regossi was a Central and East Europe news reporter for BBC radio (British Broadcasting Corporation) during the transition time from communism to capitalism. In addition, she was freelancing for RFI (Radio France International), DW (DeutscheWelle) and worked as a TV producer for Belgium VRT, German Spiegel, Dutch NOS, USA the Voice of America and others.
Regossi travelled extensively through the region during the historical changes and covered the Balkan wars, overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic-the President of ex-Yugoslavia, expansion of NATO and European Union. She also reported from other parts of the world, including referendum for independence in Canada, civil war in Burma, persecutions in Laos, wars in Iraq and Georgia.
Angelika Regossi was born on 21 April 1964 in Transcarpathia, the westernmost point of Ukraine. She began writing at an early age amid difficulties with communist authorities, who persecuted her grandfather in labour camp in Siberia. With no communists in her family, she had little chance to discover herself in the autocratic USSR. Therefore, in autumn 1989, she moved to neighbouring Hungary where communism just collapsed. After finishing her reporter's job for BBC in 2015, Regossi moved to the Netherlands.
Angelika Regossi has a university degree and speaks several languages: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak and other Slavic languages. Her hobbies are gardening, bridge cards game and, of course, traveling.
Regossi is the founder of Slow Food Community in remote Hungarian Tolna region where she owns a boutique hotel, 'Farmotel Stefania'. Read More Read Less