Agi Varga

If you have a lot of money and want to compete in a car race then you might enter the Dakar Rally. But if you are less well of and still looking for real adventure, you…

Hungary's Wine College has been popping some corks. It has just been accredited as an international examination centre by the London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust…

The Bibliotheca Corviniana, the famous library of Renaissance Hungarian King Matthias, has now been inscribed into UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The collection…

Science is a bridge between present and future - that's what was decided at the second World Science Forum in Budapest. The Hungarian capital was in fact the capital of…

Hungarians, it seems, are different. Certainly young Hungarians differ from their western European counterparts when it comes to lifestyle, family and consumer behaviour…

Hungary has nominated the town of Pecs for the title of Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010. Pecs was chosen over six other cities, including the capital Budapest. The…

Despite Hungary's economic growth over the last decade, poverty - especially child poverty - is a burning issue. The socialist-liberal government says it is now declaring…

Hungary has taken a top place on the EU's new science body - the Scientific Council. The physicist Norbert Kroo, who's also vice president of the Hungarian Academy of…

The French film star Gerard Depardieu is planning regular visits to Hungary. Locals are likely to see the great actor in the Badacsony Uplands, on the northern shore of…

The Visegrad Four - Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia met in Budapest this week. The Slovenian and Austrian leaders were also represented at the talks which…