42 result(s) for foreign policy in Community & Culture
Guest Blog: It’s Better To Give Than To Receive
- 10 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Guest blog by Foreign Policy, Justice and Home Affairs and Human Rights Attaché Levente Nyitrai: As a young kid I used to not understand that saying. Every Christmas I was eagerly waiting for the chance to attack the nicely wrapped presents under the tree. The moments on Christmas Eve when we entered the until then closed room and started singing Christmas carols before opening them seemed ages.
Now On: The Way We Are, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
- 26 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Museum of Fine Arts’ Department of Prints and Drawings preserves close to 600 lithographs by the outstanding French graphic artist, Daumier. In 2009 tender funds granted by the National Cultural Foundation enabled the urgently needed preservation work for the sheets. As part of the project the museum undertook the task of displaying the results of the work in an exhibition, since the last ...
Next Year 2013 For Hungary Astrologically
- 5 Sep 2012 1:00 AM
- community & culture
As usual, people look at the coming year with a hope of change and fulfilment of their unrealized dreams. Astrology is one branch of knowledge employed to inform them about planetary potential in relation to such a hope. This writer is attempting to do the same exercise here. The following astrological inputs have been pressed into service.
U.S. Ambassador Participates In Budapest Pride
- 12 Jul 2012 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis and U.S. Embassy Budapest staff participated in the Budapest Pride March on July 7, to demonstrate Embassy support for the Hungarian LGBT community as part of Secretary of State Clinton’s initiative to promote human/minority rights issues throughout the world. In the United States, President Obama declared June to be Pride Month to highlight the ...
The Real Wallenberg Year In Hungary
- 3 May 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In 2012 – as decided by the government – we commemorate Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish martyr diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarians during the Holocaust. The Wallenberg Commemorative Committee responsible for the preparation of the Centenary, which I chair myself, makes all the efforts to make the Wallenberg Year an occasion to face the terrible tragedy of the Holocaust in a responsible ...
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).
Guest Blog: It’s Better To Give Than To Receive
- 10 Dec 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Guest blog by Foreign Policy, Justice and Home Affairs and Human Rights Attaché Levente Nyitrai: As a young kid I used to not understand that saying. Every Christmas I was eagerly waiting for the chance to attack the nicely wrapped presents under the tree. The moments on Christmas Eve when we entered the until then closed room and started singing Christmas carols before opening them seemed ages.
Now On: The Way We Are, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
- 26 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Museum of Fine Arts’ Department of Prints and Drawings preserves close to 600 lithographs by the outstanding French graphic artist, Daumier. In 2009 tender funds granted by the National Cultural Foundation enabled the urgently needed preservation work for the sheets. As part of the project the museum undertook the task of displaying the results of the work in an exhibition, since the last ...
Next Year 2013 For Hungary Astrologically
- 5 Sep 2012 1:00 AM
- community & culture
As usual, people look at the coming year with a hope of change and fulfilment of their unrealized dreams. Astrology is one branch of knowledge employed to inform them about planetary potential in relation to such a hope. This writer is attempting to do the same exercise here. The following astrological inputs have been pressed into service.
U.S. Ambassador Participates In Budapest Pride
- 12 Jul 2012 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis and U.S. Embassy Budapest staff participated in the Budapest Pride March on July 7, to demonstrate Embassy support for the Hungarian LGBT community as part of Secretary of State Clinton’s initiative to promote human/minority rights issues throughout the world. In the United States, President Obama declared June to be Pride Month to highlight the ...
The Real Wallenberg Year In Hungary
- 3 May 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In 2012 – as decided by the government – we commemorate Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish martyr diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarians during the Holocaust. The Wallenberg Commemorative Committee responsible for the preparation of the Centenary, which I chair myself, makes all the efforts to make the Wallenberg Year an occasion to face the terrible tragedy of the Holocaust in a responsible ...
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).