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Photographer David Botond, from Odorheiu Secuiesc, has received the "European Citizen 2021" Prize from the European Parliament for the Geofolk project, which brings together the largest collection of photographs in the world with folk costumes, images captured in recent years.

The 2023 UEFA Champions League final will be held in Istanbul, the governing body of European football announced on July 16. 

The Istanbul Ataturk Olympic Stadium will host the 2023 Champions League final match, according to UEFA's official Twitter account.

The German city of Munich was originally to host the final that year. It will now be the site of the event in 2025.

The European Commission has launched an infringement procedure against Hungary for its controversial Child Protection Act, media reported on Thursday. It is one of the few cases when the Commission acted almost immediately, without the usual delay.

The ashes of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who died in 2016 at the age of 99 in her Los Angeles home, were laid to rest by her widower Prince Frederic von Anhalt in the artist's pantheon of Budapest's largest cemetery, opposite the grave of Nobel Prize writer Imre Kertész.

Turkish driver Cem Bölükbaşı won his very first race on July 10 at Round 4 of the Euroformula Open Championship in Hungary.

Bölükbaşı, 23, from Van Amersfoort Racing team, won in his debut in a time of 29.11.495 at the Hungaroring circuit in Budapest.

Teammate Rafael Villagomez from Mexico finished second and Drivex School driver Joshua Durksen of Paraguay came in third.

Moldova's Socialist leader and former president, Igor Dodon, praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his country's recently adopted law in Budapest on the LGBTQ community.

"I congratulate Mr Orban and the Hungarian people for adopting this law despite the barriers imposed by some European Union leaders and the liberal lobby in his country," Dodon wrote on his Facebook page.

Belgium knocked out defending champions Portugal in the last 16 and equalled their longest winning streak at major tournaments, winning five in a row for the second time under boss Roberto Martinez.

With a squad packed full of talent they have never been better equipped to win a trophy as they set up a quarter-final tie with Italy.

All the teams who have qualified for the Euro 2020's round of 16 are already know after Wednesday's final group stage matches.

The knockout stage schedule is as follows:

The French, Germans and Portuguese shared positions in the "death group" and that outcome was awaited by all national teams that have so far secured a place in the knockout phase.
So we got some very interesting duels, out of them, as many as three derbies.

"I was a village boy, coming from the heartland, where people worked and struggled to survive. Like my parents. And it is here where I learnt to love and appreciate this land," he declared in a somewhat amateurish Facebook video.