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Árpád Somogyi, member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation passed away
Árpád Somogyi, a member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation died at the age of 87. We send our sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.
2024-03-25 More -
Balázs Gulyás, founding member of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, and András Guttman member of our community received a state award
We congratulate the awardees and thank them for their dedicated service to Hungary!
2024-03-19 More -
„Mit Ungarn über Ungarn reden“/ "Hungarians about Hungary”
On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Friends of Hungary Foundation and the Embassy of Hungary in Vienna held a joint event entitled "Mit Ungarn über Ungarn reden" in the Austrian capital. At the highly successful event, more than a hundred guests were able to listen to the welcome words of Ambassador Edit Szilágyiné Bátorfi and the introduction of Vizi E. Szilveszter, the President of the Foundation, and the podium discussion by Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, the head of the Nézőpont Institute, with Dr. Bence Bauer, the Director of the MCC Hungarian-German Institute, about current political issues related to Hungary.
2024-03-12 More -
Károly Kocsis became a member of the Szent István Academy of Sciences
Károly Kocsis, member of the board of trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, gave his inaugural lecture at the Szent István Academy of Sciences on February 5, 2024.
2024-02-12 More -
Being Hungarian in America I. - book by Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
A book of interviews by freelance journalist Ildikó Antal-Ferencz was published by Bocskai Rádió, Cleveland. The subjects of the thirty-seven interesting conversations are American Hungarians: former or current leaders and representatives of churches (Catholic and Reformed) and civil organizations (foreign Hungarian scout teams, weekend schools and school camps, clubs, traditionalists and folk dance groups), entrepreneurs or artists - many of them are highly regarded members of our Foundation.
2024-01-15 More -
Mariann Vízkelety, member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation passes away
Mariann Vízkelety, former State Secretary for Public Administration and Justice, Prime Minister's Commissioner, member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation, died on Sunday.
2024-01-09 More -
Árpád Kovács was awarded
Árpád Kovács was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Hungarian Order of Merit
2023-12-18 More -
Calendar 2024 for Friends of Hungary
In bygone times, calendars and almanacs for the following year were prepared in the month of St. Michael, in September. Following this tradition, we presented with great respect the first copy of our calendar to Ms Katalin Novák, President of the Republic on September 15, when we met her in the framework of the 9th Friends of Hungary Conference.
2023-12-05 More -
Szilveszter E. Vizi received the Count Lajos Batthyány Award
Szilveszter E. Vizi, two-time Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian physician, pharmacologist and former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, received this year’s Count Lajos Batthyány Prize. Teri Tordai, Kossuth and Jászai Mari Prize-winning actress, received the Count Antónia Zichy Prize at the Hungarian Batthyány Foundation’s event on Friday at the Fiumei út cemetery in Budapest.
2023-10-09 More -
