The Hungarian Rectors’ Conference and the ELTE University presented its Jubilee Silver Medal to Brazlian Ambassador, Sergio Eduardo Moreira Lima for his eminent work and cooperation in the Brazilian-Hungarian higher educational relations.

An exhibition opened in the Hungarian National Gallery on June 27, presenting paintings and drawings by French and Hungarian impressionists and post-impressionists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Pál Szinyei-Merse and József Rippl-Rónai.

In its WittyLeaks series, a recent issue of Diplomacy & Trade has carried a piece by the Swedish ambassador to Hungary, Karin Olofsdotter who describes her walk from her residence to work as she observes everyday life in Budapest.

Germany's ThyssenKrupp concern inaugurated a new plant in Gyõr, Northwest Hungary, which was completed with an investment of HUF 1.2 billion (EUR 4 million). Vehicle manufacturing, especially German companies, plays a key role in Hungary industry.

EU finance ministers decided to endorse the European Commission’s recommendation of May 29 to abrogate the excessive deficit procedure (EDP) for Hungary. The country has been in the EU’s fiscal cuffs since its accession to the bloc in 2004.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn, who played a key role – as Foreign Minister – in bringing down the Iron Curtain by letting East Germans cross the border to Austria, has died at the age of 80 after spending over six years in hospital.

'Our approach has always been to help foster bilateral economic relations,” the President of the now 5-year-old Hungarian-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, Rossen Tkatchenko explains in a recent interview published in Diplomacy & Trade.

The Hungarian government has announced additional fiscal adjustment measures to avoid the reopening of the excessive deficit procedure (EDP) against the country once EU finance ministers agree to abrogate the EDP for Hungary.

A Family Golf event takes place in Budapest at the end of June this year with the procceeds foing to charity. Participants can access the driving range and putting green, accompanied by professional coaches on site to be of help.

British Ambassador Jonathan Knott welcomed hundreds of guests to his residence in Budapest to celebrate the Queen’s Birthday. The special guest of the event was the Hungarian group ‘Attraction’ who won this year’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ show.

CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, inaugurated its data center in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. CERN and this facility are connected with 100 Gbit/s circuits.

In a recent interview with Diplomacy & Trade, the Bulgarian Ambassador Bisserka Benisheva talks about the rrecent preidential visit, common history, cooperation in the energy sector or the appearance and legacy of Bulgarian gardeners in Hungary.

A press conference at the British Embassy in Budapest this Tuesday announced the launch of the latest project 'Roma law enforcement community tour' supported by the Fraternal Association of European Roma Law Enforcement Officers.

The Hungarian shadow-dance group ‘Attraction’ won this year’s Britain's Got Talent show on ITV with 27% of the viewers’ votes. The Hungarians finished ahead of a teenage comedian from Yorkshire and a pair of singing brothers from Wales.

This Friday, Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi announced that the government was ready to remove two provisions of the country’s Fundamental Law (constitution) in response to the objections of the European Commission.