It has been seven years since jazz and swing first came together for New Orleans-inspired evenings in Budapest. From 24 to 26 August, the Palace of Arts will again host the New Orleans Swing Festival, this year with guests from Austria, Finland and the USA. Finnish clarinettist Antti Sarpila, now celebrating his Swing Band’s 30th… Continue »

Pounding hooves, snorting show horses and the crack of whips; the Lázár Equestrian Park north of Budapest gets the adrenaline pumping, all from the safety of your shade-covered bench on its dirt oval. Eleven years’ running, the nine-hectare tourist attraction is also the team home of the horsedriving world champion Lázár brothers (Vilmos and Zoltán)… Continue »

Foreign firms, at 3.3%, employ 25% Only 3.3 per cent of companies operating in Hungary are foreign-owned, yet the multinationals employ a quarter of all workers in the private sector and account for half of all investments and revenue. The latest figures from the Central Statistical Office reveals that around 20 per cent of full-time… Continue »