The Grassalkovich Castle in the town of Gödöllõ, just east of Budapest will be the central venue for the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011, hosting the meetings of EU ministers. It comes as no surprise as the town and the previous Hungarian government also contemplated this idea.
Mediha ªükriye Martinez, the wife of the previous Mexican ambassador to Hungary, José Luis Martínez Hernández, mourns the death of her father, Osman Nami Osmanoglu, the grandson of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamit II.
AISB’s long-awaited brand new elementary school building is completed and opened in Nagykovácsi.
11 Hungarians were awarded a medal bearing their name, and the privilege of having their name on the Wall of Honor at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko offered to settle Hungarian minority issues in an upcoming series of government level consultations
New Hungarian foreign minister Péter Balázs was quick to point outthat his main priority will becommunicating PrimeMinister Gordon Bajnai's crisis-management program.
