German Chancellor Angela Merkel received Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Berlin. At a press conference afterwards, the Chancellor said it was understandable why Hungary is not concerned with the issue of euro adoption at the moment.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel received Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Berlin. At a press conference afterwards, the Chancellor said it was understandable why Hungary is not concerned with the issue of euro adoption at the moment.
The Special Rapporteur of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Calin Georgescu, has been informed in Budapest about the details of the red sludge catastrophe of 2010, the rescue operations, the damage control and the legal modifications adopted.
Departing Japanese Ambassador Tetsuo To has been awarded a high state distinction. The award was presented by the Hungarian President János Áder who received the ambassador in the Sándor Palace in the Buda Castle on Tuesday.
Hungary’s industrial production rose by 2.6% month on month in August, according to data adjusted seasonally and by working days, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) has reported on Friday. This comes after a 1.2% decline in July.
14 African countries have honorary consuls in Hungary. Diplomacy and Trade talked to two of them, Boldizsár Péter Entz, Honorary Consul General for the Republic of Ghana to Hungary and Péter Morenth, the Honorary Consul for Lesotho to Hungary.
Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics has written to senior Bolivian officials, asking them to ensure that Hungarian national Elõd Tóásó, who is accused of terrorism and has been detained for more than three years without trial, can stand trial and mount a free defence.
As of October 1st, Hungary took over the international mission to protect Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan from Belgium that performed this task for nearly ten years. Apart from Hungarians, the new protection force also includes Portuguese soldiers.
Hungary and Romania are keen to continue and strengthen bilateral partnership cooperation. That is according to Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi who met with his Romanian counterpart Titus Corlatean in Budapest this Monday.
In an interview published in the summer issue of Diplomacy & Trade, the South African Ambassador to Hungary, Takalani Esther Netshitenzhe says she has witnessed lots of changes in Hungary but sees lots of potential in strengthening bilateral relations.
Without austerity measures, Hungary will overshoot budget deficit goal in 2013 and the annual inflation rate is likely to climb to 5% from 3.4%. That is the projection by the National Bank of Hungary in its quarterly Report on Inflation.
The Embassy of Sweden, the Swedish Trade Council and leading Swedish companies are organizing a Swedish-Hungarian Innovation Forum on October 4, 2012. The key note address will be held by Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt.
To celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe, the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) will again organize its annual European Languages Cocktail Bar on September 26 in Akvárium, Budapest.
The Hungarian government is fighting to reduce public debt to below 50 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and looks to Lithuania's economic growth as a model, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during his visit to Vilnius.
Hungarian soprano Erika Miklósa has been accepted for the New York City Marathon set for November 4. Running is not alien to her as she was first an athlete, a heptatlonist, before becoming a star on the different opera stages of the world.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Deputy Chairman of Opel’s Management Board Thomas Sedran, inaugurated a new EUR 500 million flexible engine factory at the Opel plant in Szentgotthárd, W Hungary, creating 800 new jobs.
