National Day concert and reception
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.
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.
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...
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...