U.S. President Barack Obama pledged expanded support for society groups and "embattled NGOs" at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, mentioning Hungary as one of the countries where the civil society is increasingly the subject of intimidation.
Exit from Hungary is not on Raiffeisen’s agenda. CEO Heinz Wiedner told a newspaper that Raiffeisen Hungary was profitable in every business segment in the first half of the year, but still incurred serious losses due to government measures.
Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Tibor Navracsics submitted his resignation to President János Áder and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. the latter already nominated his former spokesperson Péter Szijjártó, now deputy FM, as the new minister.
Several diplomats accredited to Budapest participated - together with winemakers from the Balaton region - in a grape harvest organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture in Tihany on the northern shore of Lake Balaton, one of the wine regions of the country.
The Hungarian government has launched a campaign calling for Hungarians to consume more apples after a predicted record crop of 780-800,000 tons and the EU embargo against Russia. One of the oppositon parties have come up with alternative proposals.
The European Court of Justice has ruled in favor of several opposition members of Hungarian Parliament and stated that their rights to freedom of expression were violated when Speaker László Kövér fined them for displaying anti government banners.
Some 370 hectares are flooded near the Hungarian-Slovenian border in SW Hungary due to heavy rains in the past week. Streams have exited their bed and flooded roads, lands and houses as a result of which dozens of people have had to be evacuated.
As our international affairs analyst suggests, the future of the EU could be decided by 5 million Scots. In a recent analysis for Diplomacy & Trade, he looks at the possibilities of the 'yes' and 'no' outcomes of the September 17 Scottish referendum on independence.
Germany, the German Embassy in Hungary and the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce have placed posters all over Hungary to say ‘Danke’ for Hungary opening its Western border before East German refugees 25 years ago.
Hungarian nominee Tibor Navracsics is to take the post of ‘Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship’ in the new EU Commission. The list of who will occupy what post in the College of Commissioners was made public this Wednesday.
The Norwegian Minister of EEA and EU Affairs, Vidar Helgesen has issued a statement condemning the harsh action of the Hungarian authorities against the foundation in charge of distributing EEA and Norway Grants to Hungarian NGOs.
A special unit of the national police force searched the Budapest headquarters of Ökotárs, a foundation coordinating the distribution of funds from the EEA/Norway Grants in Hungary, under suspicion of embezzlement and unauthorised financial activities.
Aquincum campus, the new university quarters of Graphisoft Park in the northern Óbuda region of the Hungarian capital was inaugurated this Friday. AIT-Budapest and IBS International Business School are the two first two 'tenants' in the new campus.
Italian businessman Alessandro Balli has been around in Hungary - and involved in bilateral trade - for quite some time, he and his wife run a restaurant in Budapest. He talked to Diplomacy & Trade about using his expertise in cuisine as part of Italian culture.
The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affaires and Trade, Tibor Navracsics stated at the Bled Strategic Forum that while the European Union wants an ever closer union, the Visegrád Group has more modest ambitions yet a high level of cooperation.
