On November 28-29, 2022 an international delegation of the Order of Malta, led by the Grand Hospitaller Fra’ Alessandro de Franciscis, visited the Berehove relief unit of the Order in Ukraine. H.E. Ambassador Hafner accompanied the mission from Budapest.
The Embassy attended the State Remembrance event on the Day of Remembrance for Hungarian victims of the Holocaust, in the Hungarian Parliament, on 16th April 2024.
The annual bilateral meeting of the Hungarian Government and the Order of Malta was held in the Government building of Buda Castle on March 12.The meeting was chaired by Zsolt Semjén, Deputy Prime Minister of the Hungarian Government, and Dr. Heinz Anton Hafner, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta. Leaders of the Hungarian Association and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta were in attendance.
H.E. Ambassador Heinz Hafner was with the Hungarian Knights of Malta in the Palatine crypt in Buda Castle, where they commemorated the first president of the Hungarian Association, Archduke Joseph August Habsburg-Lothringen, with a Holy Mass. The Palatine crypt in Buda Castle is the burial place, to this day, of members of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen.
