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Fully Booked: Xpat Party For Charity, Marriott Ballroom, Friday 4 November
- 4 Nov 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
250 expats & locals registered to join Iain Lindsay OBE, British Ambassador, and a host of VIP's inc. Adam Goodman, Dennis Diokno, Paul Slocombe, Richard Dyer, and many more friendly folks at this annual event uniting the international community in support of charity.
Lázár: Hungary Would Arrest Pharaon If He Entered The Country
- 4 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian authorities “would obviously arrest” Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi businessman allegedly wanted by the FBI and Interpol, “if he came here right now,” government office chief János Lázár said responding to a question at his regular weekly press conference.
PM’s Press Office Refuses To Confirm Orbán Meeting With Theresa May
- 3 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Prime Minister’s Press Office on Wednesday refused to confirm a planned meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and British counterpart Theresa May reported by Brussels news portal Politico. “We currently have nothing to be announced in connection with foreign visits”, head of the PM’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi told MTI. Politico said on Tuesday that May is scheduled to meet Orbán in ...
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Xpat Opinion: Russian Military Intelligence And The Hungarian National Front
- 29 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I’d wager to say that not too many people are familiar with a far-right paramilitary organization called Magyar Nemzeti Arcvonal (Hungarian National Front or MNA), although it is perhaps the most important group of its kind today. It espouses the tenets of Hungarism, the brainchild of Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrowcross party which, in the late 1930s, had, for a short while, one million ...
Signing Of Free Trade Agreement Between EU & Canada Is In Hungary’s Interests
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who is on an official visit to Canada, it is in Hungary’s interests that the free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada should come about.
Events On 23 October Are About Heroism, Tribute & Freedom
- 21 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
At a press conference, MoD Parliamentary State Secretary Tamás Vargha stated that heroism, tribute and freedom will be the central ideas of the commemoration organized for the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight.
Vajna’s Wife Opens & Closes Doughnut Shop
- 20 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- food & drink
Socialist activists distributed free “anti-corruption doughnuts” at Friday’s official opening of a doughnut and bagel shop owned by Tímea Vajna, wife of government film affairs commissioner and casino licence owner Andy Vajna.
Sausage Festival, Railway Park, 21 – 23 October
- 20 Oct 2016 1:40 AM
- food & drink
Event organisers of the officially titled 'Pig Slaughtering Sausage Festival in Budapest' told XpatLoop this is, "Hungary's most dynamically developing gastro-festival". It takes place this weekend at the Hungarian Railway History Park around its 10 acres of event space. The catchy festival slogan is 'to maintain traditions, gastronomy and folklore', anyway we're sure pork lovers will find the ...
Fully Booked: Xpat Party For Charity, Marriott Ballroom, Friday 4 November
- 4 Nov 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
250 expats & locals registered to join Iain Lindsay OBE, British Ambassador, and a host of VIP's inc. Adam Goodman, Dennis Diokno, Paul Slocombe, Richard Dyer, and many more friendly folks at this annual event uniting the international community in support of charity.
Lázár: Hungary Would Arrest Pharaon If He Entered The Country
- 4 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian authorities “would obviously arrest” Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi businessman allegedly wanted by the FBI and Interpol, “if he came here right now,” government office chief János Lázár said responding to a question at his regular weekly press conference.
PM’s Press Office Refuses To Confirm Orbán Meeting With Theresa May
- 3 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Prime Minister’s Press Office on Wednesday refused to confirm a planned meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and British counterpart Theresa May reported by Brussels news portal Politico. “We currently have nothing to be announced in connection with foreign visits”, head of the PM’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi told MTI. Politico said on Tuesday that May is scheduled to meet Orbán in ...
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Xpat Opinion: Russian Military Intelligence And The Hungarian National Front
- 29 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I’d wager to say that not too many people are familiar with a far-right paramilitary organization called Magyar Nemzeti Arcvonal (Hungarian National Front or MNA), although it is perhaps the most important group of its kind today. It espouses the tenets of Hungarism, the brainchild of Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrowcross party which, in the late 1930s, had, for a short while, one million ...
Signing Of Free Trade Agreement Between EU & Canada Is In Hungary’s Interests
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who is on an official visit to Canada, it is in Hungary’s interests that the free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada should come about.
Events On 23 October Are About Heroism, Tribute & Freedom
- 21 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
At a press conference, MoD Parliamentary State Secretary Tamás Vargha stated that heroism, tribute and freedom will be the central ideas of the commemoration organized for the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight.
Vajna’s Wife Opens & Closes Doughnut Shop
- 20 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- food & drink
Socialist activists distributed free “anti-corruption doughnuts” at Friday’s official opening of a doughnut and bagel shop owned by Tímea Vajna, wife of government film affairs commissioner and casino licence owner Andy Vajna.
Sausage Festival, Railway Park, 21 – 23 October
- 20 Oct 2016 1:40 AM
- food & drink
Event organisers of the officially titled 'Pig Slaughtering Sausage Festival in Budapest' told XpatLoop this is, "Hungary's most dynamically developing gastro-festival". It takes place this weekend at the Hungarian Railway History Park around its 10 acres of event space. The catchy festival slogan is 'to maintain traditions, gastronomy and folklore', anyway we're sure pork lovers will find the ...