The Diplomacy & Trade Business Club (The Club) presented the Hungarian focus of Diplomacy & Trade at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest with diplomats, businesspeople and well-known Hungarian peronalities attending.

Russia will lend up to EUR 10 billion to Hungary to help build two new units at the Paks nuclear power plant. This was announced after President Vladimir Putin agreed on a co-operation deal with visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi paid an official visit to Chile between January 5 and 7 and reopened the Hungarian Embassy in Santiago de Chile. He also had talks with his counterpart and with the leaders of the Chilean Congress.

”Looking back on the two years since my arrival in Budapest, I am proud of having the opportunity to serve my country here,” the Ambassador of Republic of Korea, Gwan-Pyo Nam tells Diplomacy & Trade in a recent interview.

At a charity event hosted by the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in Budapest, the diplomatic corps in Hungary have collected donations for tow organizations: the Missionaries of Charity and the Budapest Methodological Center of Social Policy.

Budapest Week Publishing, the publisher of Diplomacy & Trade, held its Christmas Reception for its partners at the Intercontinental Budapest Hotel. Guests included members of the diplomatic community, of the gastronomy industry and businessmen.

The free movement of persons is a cornerstone of the European Union's principles and is beneficial for the British economy, as well, the four Visegrad countries (V4) of East Central Europe said in a joint statement on Friday.

The Diplomacy & Trade Business Club (The Club) presented the Russian focus of Diplomacy & Trade at the 40-year-old Russian Cultural Center in Budapest with diplomats, businesspeople and members of the Russian community in Hungary attending.

This year, the Diplomatic Spouses Budapest (DSB) will hold its annual Diplomatic charity fair InterContinental Hotel, November 24th showcasing unique handcrafted products from different countries and presenting unique tastes from all around the world.

Russian-Hungarian relations today are not burdened by any serious problems. They are calm, business-related and pragmatic relations. This is the gist of the article the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Hungary wrote for Diplomacy & Trade.

Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi received his Lithuanian counterpart, Linas Linkevicius n Budapest They had an overview of bilateral relations and the two countries' participation in regional cooperation activities.

The new Indian ambassador to Hungary, Malay Mishra, who took up this post in September, describes his initial reaction to his new posting in the previous issue of Diplomacy & Trade. In the interview, he also talks about his objectives here.

Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi held talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se in Seoul, where they signed a cooperation agreement on nuclear energy. Minister Martonyi also attended the cyber conference there.

Hungary should triple its exports to non-European markets by 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a Hungarian-Indian business forum in New Delhi where he met with PM Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee of India.

“A country that has a difficult language and produces great wines cannot be a bad country!” That is how the Ambassador of the Republic of France to Hungary, Roland Galharague draws a parallel between Hungary and France.