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Korean Cultural Festival In Budapest, Now On Until 12 October
- 8 Oct 2015 2:45 AM
- entertainment
Welcome to the K-Culture Festival. We would very much like to warmly welcome you all to the Korean Culture Festival. This year’s festival is much bigger than before. Throughout the whole of October, it presents a variety of enjoyable free events such as Korean traditional performances, the Korean fancy product & food booths and K-pop contest in addition to exhibitions in indoor and outdoor venues.
Szijjártó: Govt Asks For Parlt Support Against Migrant Quotas
- 7 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the group leaders of five parliamentary parties to discuss the country’s approach to the European Union’s decision to introduce mandatory migrant quotas. Speaking after the meeting, the foreign minister told journalists that most lawmakers “support the notion that Hungary’s national sovereignty must be protected.” Péter Szijjártó said that Orbán had instructed the ...
Hungary’s Former President Árpád Göncz Dies Aged 93
- 7 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Árpád Göncz, Hungary’s first postcommunist president who held office between 1990 and 2000, has died at the age of 93. Parliament observed a minute of silence, while the government paid tribute to Göncz in a statement of condolences, saying that as the first head of state of a free democratic Hungary, Göncz had “served his ten years in office to the best of his ability”.
Hungarian Mineral Water To Get Hungaricum Status
- 7 Oct 2015 4:40 AM
- shopping
The Hungaricum alliance signed a cooperation agreement with the national spa association on Wednesday with a view to gaining Hungaricum status for Hungary’s mineral waters. The alliance’s president, Imre Pesti, said Hungary has an abundance of national treasures, and the organisation’s task is to collect and manage these. Hungary is a country of spas and Budapest is a city of spas which offers ...
Art Market Budapest: Guest Exhibition: Radical Practices, Marinko Sudac Collection
- 7 Oct 2015 1:00 AM
- entertainment
Zagreb-based, Marinko Sudac Collection, encompasses a large number of artworks of progressive Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde, and post-Avant-Garde art, including morphologically and conceptually similar artistic developments and various practices of experimental art across Europe and beyond from the beginning of the 20th century until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Collection's interest extends ...
Fidesz Party Leader Kósa To Challenge Refugee Quota At EU Court
- 6 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz’s new caucus leader Lajos Kósa spoke out against a compulsory refugee quota system envisaged by the EU, as “extremely harmful” yesterday and said Hungary may challenge the quota at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He told a press conference that the plan resettles 120,000 refugees, but 300,000 migrants have arrived this year.
Zsófia Jakab-Alibaux, Group eLearning & Languages Manager, Orbital Education
- 5 Oct 2015 12:00 PM
Zsófia began her career at Britannica International School in 1999 as a French teacher and then started to teach EAL to various levels and age groups. She also did two years of postgraduate studies in Law at ELTE while working at Britannica. She then moved to France and worked there at an international school in Lyon, teaching mainly EAL to primary and secondary students along with some French.
Hungary May Become Central-Europe’s Growth Hub
- 5 Oct 2015 11:00 AM
- business
Hungary has the capacity to become Central-Europe’s growth hub, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening ceremony of the Bank of China’s RMB clearing centre in Hungary. Let us believe the Chinese (...), if they chose Budapest as their regional centre, there must plenty of steam, potential and future in this country (...). We are able to increase even our current economic performance, with ...
Péter Szijjártó Reopens Hungarian Consulate General in Chicago
- 5 Oct 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó reopened the Hungarian Consulate General in Chicago, which was closed in 2009. The Minister said that the Consulate General plays a key role with regard to both the economy and national policy because a Hungarian community of 35-40 thousand people lives in the American Midwest, in and around Chicago. Moreover, there are many ...
Korean Cultural Festival In Budapest, Now On Until 12 October
- 8 Oct 2015 2:45 AM
- entertainment
Welcome to the K-Culture Festival. We would very much like to warmly welcome you all to the Korean Culture Festival. This year’s festival is much bigger than before. Throughout the whole of October, it presents a variety of enjoyable free events such as Korean traditional performances, the Korean fancy product & food booths and K-pop contest in addition to exhibitions in indoor and outdoor venues.
Szijjártó: Govt Asks For Parlt Support Against Migrant Quotas
- 7 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the group leaders of five parliamentary parties to discuss the country’s approach to the European Union’s decision to introduce mandatory migrant quotas. Speaking after the meeting, the foreign minister told journalists that most lawmakers “support the notion that Hungary’s national sovereignty must be protected.” Péter Szijjártó said that Orbán had instructed the ...
Hungary’s Former President Árpád Göncz Dies Aged 93
- 7 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Árpád Göncz, Hungary’s first postcommunist president who held office between 1990 and 2000, has died at the age of 93. Parliament observed a minute of silence, while the government paid tribute to Göncz in a statement of condolences, saying that as the first head of state of a free democratic Hungary, Göncz had “served his ten years in office to the best of his ability”.
Hungarian Mineral Water To Get Hungaricum Status
- 7 Oct 2015 4:40 AM
- shopping
The Hungaricum alliance signed a cooperation agreement with the national spa association on Wednesday with a view to gaining Hungaricum status for Hungary’s mineral waters. The alliance’s president, Imre Pesti, said Hungary has an abundance of national treasures, and the organisation’s task is to collect and manage these. Hungary is a country of spas and Budapest is a city of spas which offers ...
Art Market Budapest: Guest Exhibition: Radical Practices, Marinko Sudac Collection
- 7 Oct 2015 1:00 AM
- entertainment
Zagreb-based, Marinko Sudac Collection, encompasses a large number of artworks of progressive Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde, and post-Avant-Garde art, including morphologically and conceptually similar artistic developments and various practices of experimental art across Europe and beyond from the beginning of the 20th century until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Collection's interest extends ...
Fidesz Party Leader Kósa To Challenge Refugee Quota At EU Court
- 6 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz’s new caucus leader Lajos Kósa spoke out against a compulsory refugee quota system envisaged by the EU, as “extremely harmful” yesterday and said Hungary may challenge the quota at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He told a press conference that the plan resettles 120,000 refugees, but 300,000 migrants have arrived this year.
Zsófia Jakab-Alibaux, Group eLearning & Languages Manager, Orbital Education
- 5 Oct 2015 12:00 PM
Zsófia began her career at Britannica International School in 1999 as a French teacher and then started to teach EAL to various levels and age groups. She also did two years of postgraduate studies in Law at ELTE while working at Britannica. She then moved to France and worked there at an international school in Lyon, teaching mainly EAL to primary and secondary students along with some French.
Hungary May Become Central-Europe’s Growth Hub
- 5 Oct 2015 11:00 AM
- business
Hungary has the capacity to become Central-Europe’s growth hub, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening ceremony of the Bank of China’s RMB clearing centre in Hungary. Let us believe the Chinese (...), if they chose Budapest as their regional centre, there must plenty of steam, potential and future in this country (...). We are able to increase even our current economic performance, with ...
Péter Szijjártó Reopens Hungarian Consulate General in Chicago
- 5 Oct 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó reopened the Hungarian Consulate General in Chicago, which was closed in 2009. The Minister said that the Consulate General plays a key role with regard to both the economy and national policy because a Hungarian community of 35-40 thousand people lives in the American Midwest, in and around Chicago. Moreover, there are many ...