European Parliament (EP) has passed a resolution condemning the Hungarian media law on Thursday, calling for the Hungarian government to change it. The most important objections include the law being biased and not independent.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented one of the 2011 Women of Courage Awards to Ágnes Osztolykán, a lawmaker of the Hungarian parliamentary party Politics Can Be Different (LMP), in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

In spite of the fact that it was its 12th Presidency, Belgium was facing a new European Union after the Lisbon treaty came into effect. True to its tradition, Belgium did its utmost to work smoothly with the new institutions.

Hungarian Parliament passed amendments to the media laws as agreed with the European Commission. Still, the technical modifications do not dispell worries about the dominance of the government in controlling the media.

In our series, diplomats give their personal account of the experiences of their “excursions” to Hungarian culture, art, gastronomy and landscape. This time, the Dutch ambassador shares his thoughts with our readers.

Internet subscriptions in Hungary exceeded 3.3 million at the end of December last year, up an annual 5.8%, down from a rise of 21.3% in 2009, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Monday.

The mission of the Korean Business Office in Budapest is helping Korean companies interested in penetrating Hungarian market and connecting Hungarian buyers interested in Korean products and/or services.

‘Recovery from this recession is dependent on innovation. The time to invest is now’ - said the EU Commissioner for Innovation, and yet, looking at Hungary's place at SII, it is obvious that there is a great room for development.

Hungary is set to go ahead with appointing four new external members to the Monetary Council of its central bank, under the new nomination rules passed by parliament, despite stark remarks by the president of the European Central Bank.

The website of Antro, a revolutionary Hungarian car design company, is more and more popular since Time magazine listed the company's super-light electric vehicle as one of the 50 best inventions of 2010, the weekly Heti Válasz says.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Hungary, Chung-ha Suh, is satisfied with what has been achieved in bilateral relations since his arrival to Budapest in 2008, he explained in an interview with Diplomacy and Trade.

Visitors who have ventured into the mysterious land of Suriname, simply refer this out-of-the-way country as nothing but unusual. Comfortably nestled between Guyana and French Guiana, Suriname is indeed unusual for several reasons.

The City of Budapest has launched an Internet survey asking residents to select one of 12 spots in the city to be named after Elvis Presley, the mayor of the Hungarian capital, István Tarlós announced on Wednesday.

The government's Széll Kálmán Plan seeks to eliminate the danger of indebtedness both at the individual and the national level, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote in his introduction to the program unveiled on Tuesday.

The government plans to help make broadband internet available in the whole of Hungary as part of competitiveness-boosting and IT development measures, the state secretary for infocommunications announced on Monday.