Hungary has held the EU-chair
"We have every reason to celebrate, it is great to be Hungarian in Brussels today" - emphasized Enikő Győri minister of state of EU affairs, Taking part at the celebrations in Brussels that concluded...
View ArticleA Diary of the presidency - The first of the six months
It is time to look back on the period we are just leaving behind. The acting presidency of the EU council will be handed over in a few days to Poland by Hungary. In the series of articles below we look...
View ArticleDiary of the Presidency - Hungarians in focus
Recently we gave a summary of the first in the six months of Hungary’s acting EU presidency. Now we take a look back on the highlights of February.
View ArticleA Diary of the presidency - From carnival to Easter-time
In the third part of our article series, we try to sum up the most important cultural events of the EU presidency in March.
View ArticleTamás Bubnó: “We are talking about our greatest sacred music composer”
The first Sunday of May is the beginning of the Liszt Year’s sacred music series. We ask Tamás Bubnó, artistic director of the programme about the works, their characteristics and about Liszt’s sacred...
View ArticleThe EU presidency came to an end with the Danube Party
The three-day Danube Party festival marking the end of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union offered around one hundred programs on both banks of the Danube between 24 and 26...
View ArticleHungarian flag on the Atomium
The head of Brussels representation of the Hungarian Parliament (AMNKEÉ) and the Office for the European Representation of Hungarian National Minorities (HUNINEU) – representing a total of 14 million...
View ArticleA Welsh-Hungarian Good Friend… or Karl Jenkins’ Case with János Arany
The 21 June premiere of The Bards of Wales was expected by the Hungarian audience as much as King Edward himself was longing for appraisals in Montgomery. On Tuesday night the bonfire was finally...
View Article„Hard work and great joy”
Krisztina Reményi has been the director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels for over a year. In the beginning, it seemed to be a very challenging position, as she was appointed the most...
View ArticleThe success of Bogyó és Babóca
The adventures of Bogyó and Babóca, the snail boy and the ladybird girl ─ interview with Géza M. Tóth, founder and manager director of KEDD Animation Studio, director of Bogyó és Babóca.
View ArticleA Diary of the presidency - Secession, cooperation, regionality
These are the three words which best describe the countless cultural events of April. The feature topic of the month was Secession, more precisely, the masterpieces of Secessionist architecture.
View ArticleA Diary of the presidency - A family-friendly May
We celebrated Europe with a family-day and Liszt with a marathon, we had a Secessionist picnic in the Museum Gardens, then we rowed around the water exhibition on the City Park Lake.
View ArticleBogányi: ’I want more Liszt’
Internationally celebrated Gergely Bogányi, Liszt and Kossuth-prize awardee, who tours even more this year than earlier, gave a concert in the Lotz-Hall of the Paris Grand Store in Budapest. He played...
View ArticleHungarian photography in London
The significance of Hungarian photography and photographers has always been unquestionable - yet quite a few decades passed when only some really well-informed professionals in Hungary were ’in the...
View ArticleSix-thousand watched the ’moving’ Academy
More than 6000 people were watching in awe the stunning 2D and 3D projections on the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Széchenyi Square last Sunday evening. The final round of the Paint...
View ArticleDanube Study Path opens
The International Danube Day, 29 June saw the opening of the Danube Study Path, which is a project supported by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and realized on the Danube banks between Margit...
View ArticlePresidency comes to end by Brandenburg Gate
“Standing here by the Branderburg Gate on Pariser Platz is like a dream come true for us. When I first came up with this idea in February, absolutely no-one else believed that it might be possible to...
View ArticleGala dinner of the Asia-Europe meeting
Smoked sturgeon with marinated zucchini, goose liver consommé with jellied eggs, sautéed leg of deer with miller’s millets and beet root confit, followed by a stroking trilogy of hazelnuts to round off...
View ArticleA worthy closing of the Presidency
Just like the previous five months, June also held numerous exciting and high-quality programmes for us.
View ArticleBlessing shall come upon both of us
The Tokaji wine is not merely a noble drink it is also the centuries old symbol of the Polish-Hungarian connections and friendship. The special and unique character of the two nation’s relationship is...
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