Atrs collector Imre Pákh, the owner of the 'Golgotha' painting the Hungarian state would like to purchase from him says he has received several 'warnings' that he may be barred from the entering Hungary if he does not concede to the state's price offer.
The European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC) and the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC) organized an event in Budapest this Wednesday to present a joint JRC-EASAC report on the "Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel and its Waste".
The Hungarian Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015 has been presented. The design, originally selected as second best in a public competition, reflects the theme of the Universal Exposition "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".
Innovative Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was chosen as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage. He was chosen from a list of ten eminent contenders from around the world.
The Holocaust drama ‘Son of Saul’ won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this Sunday. It is the highest ever recognition of a Hungarian moview at the Cannes Festival. The movie, directed by László Nemes, also collected three other prizes.
May 20 sees the start of the series of events called Italian Festival organized by the Italian Institute of External Trade (ICE) under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Budapest and in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute.
Albanian and Hungarian relations extend over centuries,” Albanian Consul of Honor Avnija Hafuzi says in a recent interview with Diplomacy & Trade. The businessman speaks about a charity project he is currently involved in.
Optimus Plesni Klub was founded by Rade Janjic in 2008. The dance club’s goal is to train competitive couples at an international level and popularise competitive dancing in Croatia. The club is very successful and well-known, ancers regularly appear in the popular TV show, Dancing With the Stars (Ples sa zvijezdama).
A Charity Bazaar - presented by the Indonsian Trade Pomotion Center and the Indonesian Embassy in Budapest - will be held at the Hungarian capital's Millenáris Teátrum on May 8-9. Proceeds are to go to the Sóstó Zoo in Nyíregyháza, NE Hungary.
"The idea was to create a meeting place for the Scandinavian people who live in Budapest, and for Hungarian fans of Scandinavian language and culture," founder Veronika Varga explains in the recent Swedish country focus of Diplomacy & Trade.
The MummyWorld Exhibition at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest was added the mummy of a Hungarian physician's young son who died in diphtheria 150 years ago. Human mummies from five continents are on display until May 17.
March 1, 1915 saw the launch of the first public service bus line in the Hungarian capital with two vehicles (an electric- and a gasoline-powered one). 100 years later, also on a Sunday, old buses paraded on Andrássy Avenue to commemorate the anniversary.
One of the most popular and spectacular winter events, the Buso festival took place in Mohács, near the Serbian border this past week-end. According to estimates, some 80,000 people gathered in the town to attend the festival.
The first life-sized terracotta soldier has been unpacked at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest where it will be displayed as part of 'The Treasures of Ancient China' exhibition from February 6, the Hungarian news agency MTI reports.
The history of Canadian studies in Hungary was explained in the recent Canadian Focus of Diplomacy & Trade Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Szeged and the founder of Canadian Studies at that university.
