Lech Wa³êsa, who is regarded by many people in and outside of Poland as the face of the struggle for freedom, was invited to Hungary by the Antall József Foundation to receive the V4 Award for his lifelong efforts in support of democracy.
“Most of the years I have spent abroad are connected to Hungary,” the Slovenian Ambassador in Budapest, H. E. Ksenija ©krilec tells Diplomacy & Trade in a comprehensive interview as part of the newspaper's special focus on Slovenian-Hungarian relations.
The United States has banned several Hungarians suspected of corruption, including people connected to the government, from entering its territory. Analysts believe the U.S. is angered by Hungarians seeking financial gains at US companies through corruption.
On the occasion that Italy is at the helm of the European Union as the current holder of the rotating presidency, the Italian ambassador to Hungary, Maria Assunta Accili Sabbatini has given an interview published in a recent issue of Diplomacy & Trade.
Géza Jeszenszky has resigned as the Hungarian ambassador to Norway. The website hvg.hu suspects Jeszenszky quit as he had enough of explaining the Hungarian government’s hostile attitude towards NGOs distributing Norway Grant funds.
The Diplomacy & Trade Club held the presentation of Diplomacy & Trade’s recent country focus on The Netherlands. The speaker of the evening was the head of Transparency International Hungary, József Péter Martin talking about corruption in Hungary.
Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Tibor Navracsics submitted his resignation to President János Áder and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. the latter already nominated his former spokesperson Péter Szijjártó, now deputy FM, as the new minister.
Several diplomats accredited to Budapest participated - together with winemakers from the Balaton region - in a grape harvest organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture in Tihany on the northern shore of Lake Balaton, one of the wine regions of the country.
Germany, the German Embassy in Hungary and the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce have placed posters all over Hungary to say ‘Danke’ for Hungary opening its Western border before East German refugees 25 years ago.
The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affaires and Trade, Tibor Navracsics stated at the Bled Strategic Forum that while the European Union wants an ever closer union, the Visegrád Group has more modest ambitions yet a high level of cooperation.
Speaking at the annual ambassadors' conference at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Hungarian Minister of Justice László Trócsányi has called on the country's diplomats to stave off criticism of areas such as Hungary’s judicial system with suitable arguments.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed the importance of forging ties between foreign and Hungarian businesses at the annual conference for the country’s top diplomats in the Hungarian Foreign Ministry on Monday.
At the 25th anniversary of the dismantling of the Iron Curtain, Gergely Prõhle of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities said that freedom consists in small, practical things and depends on how common paths are built, what kind of joint cultural events are organized.
“There is an extensive presence of Dutch companies in this country and they require the attention of our Embassy,” the Dutch Ambassador in Budapest, Gajus Scheltema explains in a comprehensive interview in a recent issue of Diplomacy & Trade.
