Budapest Airport Co. Ltd. will make a HUF 50 bn investment over the next five years. The program includes a new passenger pier, and the construction of an airport hotel as well as a series logistics and security-related investments will all begin shortly.
Celebrating the Summer Solstice, Diplomacy & Trade co-hosted a special event with NextArt Gallery complete with the opening of an exhibition by Géza Szöllõsi. The Party was inspired by Shakespeare's famous comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
31 embassies and the British council have issued a statement on the occasion of the 21st Budapest Pride Festival (June 24 - July 3) to convey their support to the LGBTI communities in Hungary and their right to express themselves peacefully and lawfully.
Hungary's national football team is back in Budapest after knocked out in the last 16 of the European Football (soccer) Championships. This past Sunday, the Hungarians suffered a serious, 4-0 defeat from Belgium.
The most important lesson to be learned from the referendum is that Brussels needs to listen to the voice of the people, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said. Opposition parties warn that the Orbán government's anti-EU stance may lead the country out of the EU.
Hungary drew 3-all with Portugal in Lyon, France this Wednesday in Group F of the European Football Championships. Hungary finished on top of Group F (tied with Iceland on points) and will play against Belgium this Sunday for a place in the quarterfinals.
A meeting to review illegal migration in the Western Balkans was held in the Hungarian capital,
attended by representatives of 13 countries, the European Union’s border control agency Frontex and the European police cooperation organisation Europol.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing accusations of fraudulently using EUR two million of EU funding after he opened a vintage railway between his two childhood villages, the British newspaper 'The Telegraph' reports.
Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has announced on Friday a new oil and gas discovery in the TAL Block it operates in Pakistan. This marks the 8th discovery in the block and Mol's 12th discovery in the country, portfolio.hu reports.
Hungary’s GDP per capita (purchasing power parity) reached 68% of the European Union average in 2015, a Eurostat report showed on Wednesday. The Hungarian figure is better than Latvia’s and those member states that joined the EU after 2004.
The two-day Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence, held on 14–15 June in Brussels, has ended. It was aimed at paving the way for the decisions to be taken at the upcoming NATO Summit to be held in Warsaw on 8–9 July.
Hungary's national football team won the first game in Group F of the 2016 European Championship by defeating Austria 2-0 in Bordeaux, France. The two goals were scored by Ádám Szalai (min. 57). and Zoltán Stieber (min. 86.).
Budapest-born American actor and circus performer Mihály 'Michu' Mészáros died in Los Angeles. Mészáros was probably best known as the man behind costume of ALF, the extraterrestrial living with an American family in an NBC comedy series.
The governing parties passed the country's 2017 budget in Hungarian Parliament this Monday and it was also the governing parties only that voted for the nationalization of all schools that are now managed by local governments.
Vörösmarty Square in the downtown area of the Hungarian capital is the venue of the 87th Budapest Book Week and its accompanying event, the 15th Children Book Days. Visitors have the opportunity to look at the selections of some 200 publishers.
