The Hungarian government displays anti-immigrant billboards that are regularly defaced or torn off by those who consider this campaign xenophobic. The government claims the Hungarian language posters are to deter immigrants from coming to Hungary.

The Day of National Unity, according to the intentions of the current Hungarian government that introduced in 2010, marks the signing of the Treaty of Trianon that - following Hungary being on the losing side in World War I - reduced the country in size and population.

Hungary will open five new embassies in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa within the next 18 months in a bid to boost relations, the Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affiars and Trade Péter Szíjjártó said at a conference in his ministry on Monday.

Evaluating the past five years of his governing Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a conference in Budapest that over the past five years the keyword for governance has been “strength”, but from now on it will be “attentiveness”.

Thousands of healthcare workers demonstrated in Budapest late Tuesday afternoon to call the government's attention to their "humiliatingly low wages". As the website [origo] calculated, the net hourly wage for nurses is below the price of a Big Mac.

The UN Refugee Agency speaks out against a growing expression of xenophobia in Hungary. It raises concerns over efforts by the Hungarian government to paint refugees as a threat to the country in leading questions asked in a so-called national consultation.

With 99.13% of the votes counted, Lajos Rig, candidate of the radical right-wing party Jobbik is set to win the Veszprém county No. 3 constituency by-election ahead of his governing Fidesz party candidate with the joint center-left candidate finishing third.

According to figures published by the Central Statistical Office, 31,000 Hungarian citizens moved abroad in 2014 for a period of more than one year. Analysts attribute this development to low wages and the lack of opportunities for younger people in Hungary.

On the March 15 national day, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán emphasized the importance of freedom fight in gaining national sovereignty while a crowd of 6-8,000 people marched on the streets of Budapest, vowing to bring the anti-democratic Orbán regime down.

Five civil organizations have turned to the Hungarian President not to sign into law the governing majority's parliamentary decision to classify the enlargement of the country's nuclear power station for 30 years that the opposition suspects is a cover for corruption.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held his 17th annual evaluation speech this Friday. He claimed that “our flag is flying high; everyone can see that. Everyone can see that we are a people’s party community, based on Christian-democratic foundations."

Zoltán Kész, an independent candidate supported by the left-wing opposition, won a seat in Hungarian parliament in Sunday's by-election. It means that the ruling Fidesz party (along with its small satellite Christian Democrats) no longer have a two-thirds majority.

The extremist Islamic terrorist attack in Paris in early January changed the preset agenda of the Latvian Presidency of the European Council, the Latvian Ambassador Imants Liegis said at a press conference about the program of the Latvian Presidency.

Civil groups and local Socialist Party activists organised a roadblock in protest of the new road toll regulations. The demonstrators blocked one lane on each side along a 1-km section on dual carriageway M86 near Szombathely, in western Hungary.

The rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union is fillied in the first six months of 2015 by Latvia. On this occasion, Diplomacy & Trade asked the country's ambassador to Hungary, Imants Liegis, to share his views with our readers.