On 21 November Hungary signed an agreement with Japanese car manufacturer Suzuki. The document of “strategic partnership” was signed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungarian Suzuki Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Hisashi Takeuchi. In his speech Viktor Orbán praised the free trade agreement between the European Union and Japan, […]
When this story happened in Hungary it quickly became international news. In October, in South Hungary, an Austrian Hummer driver ran over a Hungarian police officer, who later died in hospital. The story sounded as if an everyday road situation escalated into a massive tragedy. The Hungarian media mainly blamed […]
The location, as usual, is Vörösmarty Square, in the very heart of the Hungarian capital. The fair, which runs until the end of the year, offers folk and applied art products, Christmas presents, but you can also find here food stalls and stages with various cultural programs. Photo: Tamás Kovács […]
Yesterday the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) published two photos by Ferenc Kálmándy with the title of „Autumn in the Mecsek Mountains”. Well, they definitely brig back memories to me and not only because I used to live in the Mecsek, but I have also had a special relationship with Lake […]
According to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner in Budapest. The meeting took place in the Hungarian Parliament on 7 November and there were Hungarian and the Central European top managers of Microsoft as well. Kevin Turner and Viktor […]
Unfortunately we don’t know in details what happened in the Gellért Bath in Budapest in 2007. Hungarian News Agency (MTI) reports that a Hamburg court has brought a charge of embezzlement and misappropriation against two German company managers. The prosecution alleges that the insurance company Hamburg-Mannheimer International (HMI) organized a […]
Being a catholic country Hungary celebrates All Saints’ Day on 1 November. This is a national holiday, all the shops and banks are closed this day. In the evening traditionally the families go to cemeteries to place flowers on the graves of their dead relatives and friends.(Officially 2 November is […]
Condoms and dummies caused problems in the Hungarian and Slovak parts of the Druzhba oilpipeline – reported the Hungarian News Agency MTI. It is unclear how the unusual pollution got into the pipeline but there must have been a large quantitiy of it because the rubber items made the instruments […]
In August a Slovak millionaire woman killed four people in a road accident, and now a new case has provoked public outcry in Hungary. On 11 October four Hummer SUV crossed the Hungarian – Romanian border. They belonged to an Austrian Hummer community having been organized on the internet and […]
After Hollywood director Oliver Stone script writer Joe Eszterhas gave a lesson in a filmmaking „master course” being held in Budapest. As a part of the course, Paul Verhoeven’ Basic Instinct was on, and after the screening the participants had the chance to discuss it with Joe Eszterhas, the writer […]