The 14th annual Jameson CineFest, opened with the screening of ‘Shortcuts’ aka ‘Cutting it Short’ (1981) in the northeastern Hungarian city of Miskolc with the director, Jiøi Menzel and the leading actress, Magda Vásáryová as special guests.

In his regular Friday morning appearance on state radio, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán announced that "we must acknowledge the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the migrant quota lawsuit," in which the legality of the EU migrant quota system was upheld.

Over 200 Hungarian and foreign exhibitors with thousands of different wines await visitors at the 26th Budapest Wine Festival in the Buda Castle until September 10. The guest of honor country at this year's event is Chile.

The Hungarian trucking company WABERER’S INTERNATIONAL Plc. has announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Eschange (BUX) that its series “A” dematerialised, registered ordinary shares are to be included in the BUX basket with a weight of 0.91%.

It was a hundred years ago that Sándor Korda - later to be known as Alexander Korda - and his associates põened Hungary's first film studio (the 7th oldest in the world) at a location that is still a TV and film production facility in Budapest.

SPA Profiles Ltd. is constructing a new pressing plant in Székesfehérvár, SW of Budapest. The HUF 6.8 billion forints (EUR 22.2 million) investment by one of the world’s leading automotive industry suppliers is expected to create 120 new jobs.

Iberia, the Spanish national airline, has announced that, unlike in previous years, it will operate flights between Budapest and Madrid in the winter season from 2017, with three weekly flights on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

'On Body and Soul', a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Ildikó Enyedi has been chosen by a committee of experts as the Hungarian entry for the next Academy Awards. Earlier this year, the movie has already won the Golden Bear award in Berlin.

This is the fifth year that Budapest Airport organized its hugely successful charity running race the Runway Run, an event unique in the whole of Europe. This past week-end, the airport operator closed runway No. 1 - or actually opened it for over a thousand runners.

The village of Mád in Hungary's world-renowned Tokaj wine region in a unique place in the world in that 80% of the grapes grown in its terrtory is of the Furmint variety. This year's edition of the annual Furmint festival took place this past week-end.

The Hungarian oil and gas trust MOL celebrates the 80th anniversary of its first exploratory drilling that took place in Budafapuszta, Zala County in SW Hungary. In the rest of the year, MOL is to start drilling for oil and gas in eastern Hungary.