The Australian Ambassador to Hungary, John Griffin has invited guests to his new residence in the Buda Hills to celebrate Australia Day, the official national day of Australia. The Day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the proclamation at that time of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of New Holland.
Contributing to social change, engaging with people at a human level, fostering advancement in education and developing intercultural dialogue are only a few of the goals that the British Council has sought to accomplish in recent years.
The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, says the 2012 annual report of the International Labor Organization.
Opened in 1999, Hungarian Cultural Centre in London, a multifaceted institute provides a forum for people and ideas, enabling Hungarian artists to introduce themselves in Britain. The piece on it appeared in the December issue of Diplomacy & Trade.
The Diplomacy and Trade Business Club ('The Club') held its latest networking event at the Hotel Kempinski Corvinus in Budapest, presenting the latest issue of ‘Diplomacy and Trade’ that features a supplement on the Nordic countries.
Danish toymaker Lego will start construction of an 80,000-sqm plant in Nyíregyháza, NE Hungary this summer, according to, the general manager and vice-president of Lego Manufacturing Ltd., Lego’s Hungarian subsidiary.
Two Hungarians have been killed in an attack in northern Ethiopia and another Hungarian was slightly injured, Interpol's office in Ethiopia said. Two Germans and an Austrian were killed with two Germans and two Ethiopians kidnapped.
In remembrance of the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in World War II, a series of events called the 'Wallenberg Year' was launched in Budapest on the day he was last seen in 1945.
Hungarian football (soccer) referee Viktor Kassai has been voted the world’s top football (soccer) referee in 2011 in a survey by the organization IFFHS, pushing previous year’s winner English Howard Webb to second place.
Hungary is the second safest country in the world regarding the storage of nuclear materials. That according to the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative that has compiled a list after surveying hundreds of establishments all over the world.
To develop the relations between Latin America and Hungary, the Latin American Union, named LATIMO, was founded on Nov 28, 2011 by former diplomats, business people, commercial and economic experts and technical specialists.
The European Commission found that financing granted to Hungarian flag carrier Malév between 2007 and 2010 in the context of its privatisation and renationalisation constitutes illegal state aid and must be repaid to the state.
Hungarians are most concerned about losing their jobs or becoming poor, an international survey by the Ipsos group conducted in 27 countries late last year and now released to the Hungarian news agency MTI shows.
Hungarian Grand Master Judit Polgár is the best female player in history. An article in the 2011 December issue of Diplomacy & Trade featured an article of the youngest Polgár sister who has ruled the world of women's chess for over two decades.
EU executive José Manuel Barroso has called on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to ensure that the nation’s Central Bank remains independent despite a controversial reform that gives the government more control over the bank.
