This year, Corinthia Hotel Budapest commemorates the 10th anniversary of its reopening. A major series of celebrations are staged throughout the year, the latest event being the Open Day on May 26 during which the hotel can be visited by the general public.
The American International School Budapest is an independent, nonprofit coeducational day school for students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. The campus stands on 13.1 hectares of land, some 13 kilometers from Budapest, in Nagykovácsi.
This summer, Croatia joins the European Union as the 28th member of the organization. The Croatian Ambassador to Hungary, Gordan Grliæ-Radman talked to an earlier issue of Diplomacy & Trade in an interview covering various aspects of bilateral relations
The Hungarian Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga announced that in order to ensure that the European Commission’s excessive deficit procedure against the country is lifted, the government will freeze HUF 92.9 billion in the 2013 budget.
A dozen people in the small southern Hungarian village of Geresdlak, Baranya County, start a Finnish language course financed by the European Union. They wish to talk the language of the increasing number of immigrants from Finland.
On the occassion of the May 3rd Constitution National Day, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Hungary, Roman Kowalski invited hundreds of guests to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
In his speech, Ambassador Kowalski stressed that the day of the 1791 Constitution, the first modern one in Europe, means a lot for the Polish people, they are proud of the anniversary as it reminds of them of the merits gained in the creation of a modern Europe and of modern democracy.
Hungarian Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics was of the view that the Polish constitution is about being Central European. He called for the member countries of the Visegrád Group, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, whose combined GDP would be the world’s 15th, to now form closer cooperation on the economic front “to achieve big results.”
On the occassion of the May 3rd Constitution National Day, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Hungary, Roman Kowalski invited hundreds of gueststo the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest to celebrate the 1791 Polish Constitution.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) holds its general assembly meeting in Budapest. In his speech the Hungarian PM called for "zero tolerance" against anti-Semitism but the WJC says he “did not confront the true nature of the problem.”
The Cortinthia Hotel Budapest has recently hosted a very special event, a charity cooking evening, organized by the Csodalámpa (Magic Lamp) Foundation. Participans of the event prepared specialties of Indian cuisine.
As of this week, El Al Airlines of Israel flies its Budapest-Tel Aviv route once a week with a Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The first Jumbo Jet landed at Budapest airport this Tuesday. The same type of plane will fly this route for the next seven weeks.
A story of successes in the Balkans. That is how our author, Rudolf Sárdi describes this small country in the Western Balkans, based partly on his conversation with Delfin Pllana, Deputy Head of Mission at the Kosovar Embassy in Budapest.
The Danube Tower in the unique 19th-century complex Fort Monostor on the bank of the River Danube in Komárom, northwestern Hungary will host the 23rd international Mediawave Festival from Tuesday through Saturday this week.
Diplomacy & Trade regularly prints the accounts of personal experiences and thoughts by Ambassadors accredited to Budapest. This time, we publish the piece written for us by the Korean ambassador to Hungary, Gwan-Pyo Nam.
Hungary’s Olympic bronze medalist Éva Csernoviczki won the first gold medal at the European Judo Championship in Budapest. In the final, she defeated Charline van Snick of Belgium, the top ranked European judoka in the women’s U48-kg category.
The American company well-known for its Internet search engine, Google, has announced the Hungarian launch of Google Street View, an online service that offers panoramic street-level imagery taken throughout the country.
