As reported by the Hungarian news agency MTI, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said this Thursday that the Dutch Ambassador Gajsu Scheltema is no longer a welcome guest in the Ministry.

The British and Hungarian air forces have held joint exercises over western and northeastern Hungary. The exercises that ended this Thursday were directed from the Szentgyörgyi Dezsõ Hungarian Air Force Base in Kecskemét, SE of Budapest.

The latest development by the Danish pharmaceutical company Xellia Pharmaceuticals has been completed at its Kõbánya site in Budapest. The laboratory constructed as part of a development of EUR 11 million will operate as a testing centre for active ingredients.

The National Bank of Hungary will continue its program of upgrading Hungarian forint banknotes . As part of the program. The Bank says it will issue into circulation an upgraded 1,000-forint note with new design elements and new security features.

Hungarian police, who will be taking part in border control operations, have set off for Serbia and Macedonia, to help local authorities reinforce border security along the Macedonian-Greek and Serbian-Bulgarian borders.

Mártrai Erõmû, the second largest power plant in Hungary, will implement the country's largest solar farm with a capacity of 3×20 MegaWatts, according to the Hungarian political daily Népszava. Two of the three units will be completed in 2018.

Japan's Prince Akishino and his eldest daughter, Princess Mako, are on a private trip to Hungary. On Sunday, they visited a pig farm in Bugac, southeast of Budapest, while earlier, they were welcomed at the Museum of Ethnography in the Hungarian capital.

An international jury of more than 200 executives worldwide awarded NNG with three International Business Awards for one of its development solutions, as well as its recent marketing and internal communication campaigns.

There is a Hungarian national among those injured in the Barcelona attack: a Hungarian woman is lightly injured, but she has already been released from hospital, Levente Magyar, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.

Fourteen racehorses bred in Hungary were flown to China last week, on board Cargolux’s Boeing 747. The Friesian and Shagya Arabian horses, trained specifically for combined driving, took off from Budapest Airport in special freight containers.

One of Europe's biggest cultural – mainly music and arts – festivals, the Sziget Festival (this time, the 25th, jubilee edition), ended this Tuesday, having had a total number of 452.000 visitors attending the seven-day event from over a hundred countries.

As part of the Spanish Focus of Diplomacy&Trade, the Director of the Institute in Budapest, Iñaki Abad Leguina talks about the role of the institute in the Hungarian capital in disseminating Spanish culéture and in teaching the Spanish language.

As of May 4, American Airline, the world's largest airliner, will have scheduled daily flights between the Hungarian capital and the city of Philadelphia on the east coast of the United States, according to a communiqué by Budapest Airport and the US airliner.

Hungarian fans of Elvis Presley held a candle-lit commemoration event in Budapest's Elvis Presley Park on the 40th anniversary of the death of the legendary American singer. One of the performers was the Hungarian Elvis Tribute Band.

The northeastern Hungarian region involving the city of Debrecen, the town of Hajdúszoboszló, the Hortonágy National Park area and the Lake Tisza reservoir have been given HUF billions for development in a program lasting until 2030.