Latest News - Embassy of Hungary

9 hours ago

Fintech Breakfast

Our Embassy was pleased to host the Fintech Breakfast: Latvia-Hungary Ecosystem Exchange today. Congratulations to Magyar Fintech Szövetség & Fintech Latvija asociācija for signing a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on their cooperation. Six Hungarian companies were represented and made an introduction to representatives of the Latvian fintech sector.

1 week ago

The Hungarian Association of Sports Facilities in Riga and Jūrmala

A delegation from the Hungarian Association of Sports Facilities visited Latvia on the occasion of EuroBasket, the European Basketball Championship.

1 week ago

Cornexi at the Riga Food 2025 exhibition

Cornexi Ltd participated with its oat-based products at the largest food industry exhibition in the Baltics, Riga Food 2025. Our foreign trade attaché, Péter Soltész, also visited the Cornexi stand on September 5.

1 week ago

Vajda Papír in Latvia

The products of Hungarian company Vajda-Papír Kft, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of household and public hygiene paper products, are already available in many places in Latvia.

1 week ago

Marģers Vestermanis turns 100

Alongside the President of the Republic of Latvia and the Speaker of the Saeima, Hungarian Ambassador György Urkuti also congratulated historian Marģers Vestermanis, researcher of the fate of Hungarian Jewish women deported to Latvia in 1944, on his 100th birthday on September 18.

1 week ago

Xeropan at the European Day of Languages in Riga

Zoltán Miholics introduced the Xeropan language learning application to the Latvian audience at the European Day of Languages Festival in Riga on September 19.

1 week ago

Hungarian Folk Dance Night in Riga on October 6

The Makó Forgatós Dance Ensemble will hold a Hungarian Folk Dance Night at the headquarters of the Riga Latvian Society (Rīgas Latviešu Biedrība) at Merķeļa iela 13 on Monday, October 6, starting at 6:00 p.m.

3 years ago

Attention to Students enrolled in Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions

Attention to Students enrolled in Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions Within the framework of the Stipendium Hungaricum (SH) Programme, the Government of Hungary has established the Students at Risk Subprogramme which, upon successful application, provides Ukrainian and international students, citizens of SH partner countries, who had to flee Ukraine because of the war, with an opportunity...

4 years ago

As of today, from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 Hungary once again holds the Visegrad Group Presidency.

In these difficult times, the main task of the Visegrad Group (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia) and the Hungarian V4 Presidency is to reinforce cooperation so as to contribute to common European solutions and our region’s and Europe’s resilience, security and stability, as well as to post-pandemic economic and social reopening and recovery. At...

4 years ago

University academic programme in Hungary for foreign students in English language

The Ernő Soós Water Technology Research and Development Center in cooperation with the University of Pannonia, the city of Nagykanizsa and the Hydrophilic Water Treatment Planning and Construction Ltd. offers an academic programme in Hungary for foreign students to study Water Operation Engineering. The Ernő Soós Water Technology Research and Development Center was founded in...