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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.