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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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 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.
The world’s only permanent exhibition of Robert Capa’s photographs will open in October in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, at the recently refurbished Capa Centre. The news was announced on Tuesday on the occasion of the day of Hungarian photography.
Foreign ministers of the Visegrád Four (V4) and Eastern Partnership countries meet in Budapest to discuss the Partnership’s future as well as preparations for the Eastern Partnership’s November summit as the central points.
SMR, a global automotive supplier from India, starts two projects eastern Hungary. The one worth EUR 10 million covers a new manufacturing hall for rear-view mirrors, while a EUR 16 million development is to expand the bumper part manufacturing capacity.
As of next April, the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will start a new route between Budapest and Santander in northern Spain after an agreement with the government of the province of Cantabria, according to the daily El Diario Montañés.
The official Hungarian Gazette has published a government resolution according to which the cabinet spends an extra HUF 2.4 billion on the deployment of another 30,000 bank card acceptance points as promised earlier.
The website of Lonely Planet, the largest travel guide book publisher in the world, has picked five Budapest neighborhoods as recommedned for those visiting the Hungarian capital - all of them districts in the downtown area along the river Danube.
