The Weerts Group is a Belgian family-owned business headquartered in Liège with operations also in four other European countries, including Hungary where the Group first appeared in the year 2000. The Weerts Group was established before 1945 as an agricultural transport company with one truck driven by Hubert Weerts operating in and around Teuven, a […]

The Soudal Group is the largest independent European manufacturer of sealants, adhesives and polyurethane foams for professional and private users. The Belgian family business was founded by Vic Swerts in 1966, with its Hungarian branch set up 33 years later, in May 1999, in Budapest. As Country Manager János Oltyán explains to Diplomacy&Trade, “at that […]

VPK Group looks back close to nine decades of history, providing the current management and staff with plenty of experience in this business. The company is present with production facilities all over Europe, offering economic and ecological packaging solutions to its customers. As Bart Dobbelaere, the Managing Director at VPK Packaging Salonta in Romania, also […]

Having started production in 1973, the history of Borsodi Brewery dates back almost half a century, and it went to private ownership 20 years later when privatized by the Belgian firm Interbrew. In 2012, the latter was taken over by the American-Canadian Molson Coors Brewing Company, the world’s fifth biggest brewer. Borsodi’s General Manager Zsolt […]

It is already ten years that The Three Corners Hotels entered the Hungarian market, following previous 25 years of successful hotel operations at the Red Sea in Egypt. The acquisition of Hotel Art *** Superior, back in early 2013, was a milestone, and the company went steadily forward ever since. It is now operating three […]

The Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) representation office in Budapest has two main missions: assisting Flemish companies in their export activities to Hungary and attracting Hungarian potential investors to Flanders. As the head of the office, Trade & Investment Counsellor Szonja Bender, explains to Diplomacy&Trade, most of the Flemish companies who contact their office are […]

Belgium’s primarily French-speaking region, Wallonia and the (bilingual) Brussels-Capital Region maintain a joint representation office in Budapest, operating under the umbrella of the Belgian Embassy. The AWEX (Wallonia Export & Investment Agency) office, in charge of foreign trade promotion in Hungary and foreign investment attraction to these regions, is headed by Edit Ránky as Trade […]

“Trade relations between Hungary and Belgium have been soaring recently,” the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Hungary, Siegfried Peinen tells Diplomacy&Trade in the leading article of the Belgian Focus celebrating the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Hungary and Belgium. Looking back at the history of this century, Ambassador Peinen notes that at […]

In 2022, Belgium and Hungary will celebrate the 100th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. A joyous event that will certainly be a great opportunity to highlight the many bonds that unite our two countries in so many different ways. One cannot help but wonder what happened before 1922. Our bilateral interactions and contacts between what […]

Opposite the Central Station in Brussels, at the entrance from the ‘Spanjeplein’, a statue of 20th century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was inaugurated in 1995. It was a gift from the city of Budapest on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bartók's death. That year, a series of concerts ‘Jubilate Hungaria 95’ around the […]

The Belgian region of Flanders has one of the world’s most open economies and businesses established there are naturally inclined to expand abroad. The Hungarian representation of Flanders Trade & Investment (FIT), set up by the Flemish government in 2005, serves as a gateway to the Hungarian market for Flemish exporters. The FIT office in […]

There have been numerous significant associations in the history of bilateral relations between Belgium and Hungary. The Belgian ambassador highlights two of these. The first one takes us back to the 19th century when Princess Stéphanie of Belgium – born in 1864 to Leopold II and Marie Henriette of Austria – married Rudolf, the only […]

The Belgian Business Club in Hungary Association (Belgabiz) was officially presented on Thursday in Budapest, aiming to provide information-gathering services for companies interested in the development of Hungarian-Belgian economic relations.

Júlia Király, a former Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) will continue her career at KBC Group as member of the Board of Directors, the Belgian bank has announced. In the Board, she is going to replace Professor Dirk Heremans.

Representing the population, the companies and values – these are the main goals of the Belgian Ambassador to Hungary, Jo Indekeu who talked about this and other issues in an interview with the March-April issue of Diplomacy and Trade.