Following their match against Belgium, the Hungarian team was welcomed by Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács at his residence.
Belgium held a series of events on July 21 to celebrate its national holiday.
Luxembourg held a series of events in the presence of the diplomatic corps on June 23 to mark its national holiday.
At the invitation of his Polish colleague, Chargé d'Affaires Ms. Katarzyna Skórzyńska, Ambassador dr. Tamás Iván Kovács represented Hungary at the second EU Heads of Mission event organized by the Polish EU Presidency on 18 February. During the event, Prof. Alexander Mattelaer delivered a presentation on the Belgian perspectives of security, defense, and foreign policy.
On 14 February, H.E. Ambassador Tamás Iván Kovács gave a presentation on the achievements of the Hungarian EU Presidency with an emphasis on our Embassy’s activities and successful programs in Belgium and Luxembourg at an online conference entitled ’Lessons learned exchange 2024 Hungarian Presidency in the Council of the European Union’, organised by Clingendael Institute.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.