News
Ambassador's dinner with the President of the EESC and the Ambassador of Austria
On 6 February, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács hosted Oliver Röpke, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and H.E. Jürgen Meindl, Ambassador of Austria to Belgium, for an informal dinner discussion at his residence.
Rectors on the Belgian-Hungarian higher education relations
On 29 January, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács hosted an informal working dinner at his residence on Belgian-Hungarian higher education relations, inviting Professor Bruno van Pottelsberghe, the Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest, and Mr. Jan D'haene, the Director of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
New Year’s Reception of the Government of Flanders
At the invitation of H.E. Matthias Diependaele, Minister-President of Flanders, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács represented Hungary at the New Year’s Reception of the Government of Flanders in the Errerahuis. The event provided an excellent opportunity for the Ambassador to meet, beside the Minister-President of Flanders, Julie Bynens, Secretary General of the Flemish Chancellery and Foreign Office, and Piet Demunter, CEO of Flanders Investment and Trade.
Commemoration on the International Holocaust Memorial Day
On 27 January, on behalf of the Embassy of Hungary, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván, the Honorary Consul of Hungary in Flanders, Mr. Ari Epstein and Krisztina Molnár, diplomat laid a wreath at the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust Memorial on the occasion of the International Holocaust Memorial Day. The Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated 80 years ago, on 27 January 1945.
Discussion with the Minister of Culture of Luxembourg
On 16 January, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács, accompanied by Szabolcs Nemes, our Chargé d'Affaires in Luxembourg, and Zsófia Kovács, Director of the Liszt Institute Brussels, had a meeting with Mr. Eric Thill, Luxembourg's Minister of Culture.
