A club has been launched for people from the diplomatic community, top executive levels of business, industry and finance. It is to promote a discussion of business and economic issues and to provide a venue for social gathering and sharing cultural understanding.
The European Commission’s recently adopted initiative on building out and spreading fast and very fast broadband internet access has been welcomed by the Hungarian government.
Attracting two and a half million people each year worldwide in some 100 different locations, the world’s most prestigious annual photo exhibition, returns to Budapest. The exhibition opens on Oct 1 in Millenáris Park.
In September, the improvement of the GKI economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects came to a halt after its significant and nearly continuous rise that had started last May. Both business and consumer expectations decreased slightly.
13.800 people from 50 countries gathered on the rainy Sunday morning for the Budapest International Marathon and Running Festival where the best known participant was Slovak foreign minister Mikulás Dzurinda.
NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, Gábor Iklódy is the first Hungarian to work in NATO’s top management. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges...
Artist Predrag Todorovic presents his exhibition at Zikkurat Galéria in Budapest's National Theatre. The exhibition entitled ‘Seven Stations’ opened last week, in co-operation with the Croatian Embassy in Budapest and the National Theatre Budapest.
Higher volume production of car engines, transmission units and tires, EUR hundreds of millions of investments and thousands of jobs – three foreign companies, already based in Hungary, have announced the increase of their capacities.
The Dalai Lama lectured on Buddhism, led a public training session on the art of happiness and visited the Parliament during his recent trip to Hungary on September 17-20.
Hungarians may have to replace their cars en masse in a couple of years as more than three million aged cars roam the roads of Hungary. The latest Ernst & Young regional car industry report also suggests that the number of cars per capita in Hungary...
Despite the fact that charges by animal rights activists in the recent years cut exports noticeably, Hungary is still by far the most importer exporter of foie gras or goose liver. Now, the good news for the industry is that this year, they managed to increase prices.
Lan Xang, or the Land of a Million Elephants, as it is endearingly known among the peaceful residents of Laos, has recently evolved into a fashionable tourist destination and a country of endless possibilities among foreign investors, including Hungarian ones.
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán and the presidents of three other countries concerned have signed an agreement on the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romanian Interconnector (AGRI) project which involves the transporting of Azeri natural gas through Georgia and Romania to Central Europe.
Double festivity: Madagascar House opens in the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden as the island nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence.
The EU’s relation with China is one of the topics of discussion at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Diplomacy & Trade online takes a look at this issue that is likely to be also highlighted when Hungary takes over the rotating EU presidency next year.
