Flame Spray Hungary, an Italian-owned company engaged primarily in applying special coating on gas turbine and aircraft engine parts, has inaugurated a new 3,000-sqm hall, built with an investment of HUF 500 million, at its base in Szada, east of Budapest.

Another edition of Csodalámpa Wish Granting Foundation’s cooking course took place recently with a special, pizza-making program, this time at Symbol House, to, as usual, grant a wish for a seriously ill child. This time a cooking project also took place.

European Parliament’s Culture Committee rejected the nomination of Hungarian candidate Tibor Navracsics as the new EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship due to his record in a government accused of curbing civic rights.

Géza Jeszenszky has resigned as the Hungarian ambassador to Norway. The website hvg.hu suspects Jeszenszky quit as he had enough of explaining the Hungarian government’s hostile attitude towards NGOs distributing Norway Grant funds.

The Diplomacy & Trade Club held the presentation of Diplomacy & Trade’s recent country focus on The Netherlands. The speaker of the evening was the head of Transparency International Hungary, József Péter Martin talking about corruption in Hungary.

The number of new car registrations continued to rise in Hungary by 18% year on year in September. The favorable picture is slightly overshadowed by the fact that the market remains driven by company purchases and re-export, and not private buyers.