According to an internet survey conducted by the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME), the Bird of the Year in Hungary in 2015 is the hoopoe, which finished ahead of the blackbird and the robin in the voting.

Recipients of the ‘Prestige Award’ given to a winery, a wine bar, a wine shop and a restaurant, who all play a significant role in the world of wines, have been honored at a ceremony at the Kárpátia Restaurant in Budapest earlier this month.

The vast prairie landscapes of Hungary provide the background for Délibáb ('Mirage'), the new movie by young Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu released in Hungary this week. In September, it was a great success at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A commemoration was held this Sunday, marking the 70th death anniversary of poet and Holocaust victim Miklós Radnóti, considered to be one of the great poets in this country. He is believed to have been shot dead during a death march in 1944.

Two important development projects to give a better insight into the world's flora and fauna are under way in Hungary's largest zoo, the one in the northeastern town of Nyíregyháza. The projects are mainly financed by the European Union from development funds.

Aquincum campus, the new university quarters of Graphisoft Park in the northern Óbuda region of the Hungarian capital was inaugurated this Friday. AIT-Budapest and IBS International Business School are the two first two 'tenants' in the new campus.

Italian businessman Alessandro Balli has been around in Hungary - and involved in bilateral trade - for quite some time, he and his wife run a restaurant in Budapest. He talked to Diplomacy & Trade about using his expertise in cuisine as part of Italian culture.

Following a summer vacation of two and a half months, the 2014-15 school year officialy began on Monday, September 1 for about 1 million and 267 thousand students in Hungary, including 98,600 pupils starting elementary school.

Hungarian acheologists have encountered important Bronze Age findings at excavations preceding earthworks along main road 21 at Jobbágyi, NW of Budapest. The findings are said to be from the late Bronze Age tumulus culture.

The recent Holland country focus in Diplomacy & Trade included the view on the Hungarian-Dutch relations by the Dutch Department of the University of Debrecen as well as that of the ELTE University in Budapest. This time we have the article by the ELTE department.

One of Europe's biggest cultural - and mainly music - festival, the Sziget Festival on Óbuda island (hence the name) on the River Danube opened its gates this Monday. We have for you a preview by a Dutch journalist, Maria Douwes.

Start spreading the news: one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Rembrandt and Dutch Golden Age Paintings will be held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest from the end of October until the middle of February 2015.

“Races are coming your way, so forget all your duties, oh yeah…” Do these lines ring a bell? Did you know that it is mandatory to have a bell on your bike, at least in Hungary? Diplomacy & Trade featured this article in its recent Dutch country focus.

Hungarian contemporary author László Krasznahorkai, the author of 16 books, is the 2014 recipient of the America Awards - considered by many as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature’ - for a lifetime contribution to international writing.

In its recent Dutch focus, Diplomacy & Trade featured an article by the Dutch Department of the University of Debrecen on how they see the different aspects of seven-century history of relationship between Hungarians and the Dutch.