On November 12–13, the Embassy of Hungary in Riga hosted the latest stage of the Hungarian Food Business Program of the Agricultural Marketing Centre. Fifteen Hungarian food industry companies presented themselves to a Latvian professional audience.
On November 3, our Embassy presented the first Hungarian edition of Lāčplēsis (Bear Slayer or Medveölő in Hungarian), considered the Latvian national epic and written between 1872 and 1877 by the patriotic poet Andrejs Pumpurs, at a private, intimate ceremony at the Latvian National Library in Riga, accompanied by a lecture by the translator János Pusztay, professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics.
On October 22, our Embassy commemorated the anniversary of the 1956 revolution and war of independence in the festive hall of the Riga Museum for History and Navigation.
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.
A delegation from the Hungarian Association of Sports Facilities visited Latvia on the occasion of EuroBasket, the European Basketball Championship.
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.
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.
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.
Zoltán Miholics introduced the Xeropan language learning application to the Latvian audience at the European Day of Languages Festival in Riga on September 19.
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.