With this year’s harvest, Villány is on the eve of a new marketing campaign, with cabarnet franc leading the way. In a drive to raise the profile of the region, premium Villanyi Franc will be the signature of the region’s already acclaimed reds. Indeed, in time, the words Villanyi Franc may become as globally recognised as the words Tokaji Aszu.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vivited his Austrian counterpart, Chancellor Werner Faymann this Friday to ease tension between the two neighboring countries and discuss what could happen next in the handling of the flow of migrants.
This Thursday saw the opening of the 2015 program series of the Design Week Budapest Museum of Applied Arts in the Hungarian capital. Those interested in this subject will be able to attend over a hundred programs until October 4.
The oldest living Olympic Champion, Sándor Tarics, who won gold in the 1936 Olympics with the Hungarian water polo team, turned 102 this Wednesday. He moved to the United States in 1948 where he taught at university and worked as construction engineer.
In September 2015, Hungary’s GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects reached this year’s peak, and the degree of optimism was only slightly lower than at the end of last year, which corresponded to a 17-year high.
Hungarian Tourism Ltd. has decided to make a short campaign movie along with a photo series to show tourists how safe the country still is, despite of what they call negative propaganda, Hungary Daily News quotes the online portal of the daily Népszabadság.
40 Croatian police officers accompanying a train carrying migrants from Croatia to Hungary were disarmed by Hungarian police on Friday. According to the spokesman of the Hungarian government, 4,400 migrants arrived to Hungary from Croatia on this day.
The „Police Academy”. in Budapest turned 20 years. There is no change in goals: to protect and serve more effectively and fight criminal groups which have become more global, sophisticated and technically advanced than ever before.
The European Commission has appointed Gábor Zupkó to the position of Head of Representation of the Commission in Hungary as of December 1. Zupkó, a Hungarian national, is currently Director "Resources" in DG Communication.
September 16 marks the birthday of Hungarian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi, whose discovery was among the foundations of modern nutrition. Read on to find out more on this brilliant mind.
Hungarian police stopped a crowd of migrants that broke the gate at a crossing point of the Röszke-Horgos station on the border between Hungary and Serbia on Wednesday. The law inforcement units used tear gas and water cannons against the crowd.
Hungarian police closed an unofficial crossing point along a train track between the Serbian village of Horgos and the Hungarian village of Röszke to stop the influx of illegal immigrants. while the government declared a state of crisis in two southern counties.
No. 2 seeded Dalma Gálfi of Hungary defeated No. 9 seed Sofia Kenin of the United States in the final of the junior girls' competition at the US Open tennis tournament. 17-year-old Gálfi is the first Hungarian to capture a title in the history of the US Open.
Csaba Malatinszky could well be tagged Hungary’s Monsieur Cabarnet Franc. London’s respected Decanter magazine declared his 2010 Serena the best old world white wine of Europe.
Some 3,800 soldiers were deployed at Hungary's southern border with Serbia by Friday, the new defense minister István Simicskó said. The main task of the troops is to help build a fence that PM Viktor Orbán claims will protect Hungary from the influx of migrants.
