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European Masterpieces |
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New Modes of Governance in the European Union |
The second analysis in our European Masterpieces series is entitled "New Modes of Governance in the European Union", written by Helen Wallace, one of the most well-known scholars dealing with European studies.
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The United States of Europe |
The first booklet in our European Masterpieces series is entitled "The United States of Europe", written by the social scientist and politician Oscar Jászi. The whole text is published both in English and Hungarian first time ever. |
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NGO-s in European Policy-Formation |
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The Center for European Union Research of the Central European University and the Hungarian Europe Society organised a roundtable debate entitled „Where are they? Civil society actors and European integration” at the Central European University on 17 April 2012. HES was represented by Rita Galambos. Program and read more |
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Competition and Antipathy |
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On 4 April 2012 Mihály Laki, Research Fellow of the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences made a presentation entitled Hungarian Big Entrepreneurs and Multinational Firms. |
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Conference |
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Is There Life Outside the European Union? Free At Last?
International Conference Organised by the Hungarian Europe Society
Recent behaviour of the Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has raised questions whether the country is steering outside the European Union either by leaving the political and economic integration on its own decision or by provoking its expulsion by the European institutions and the other member states. There exist also mid-way potential scenarios. The consequences of the current crisis might be that Hungary remains a member state but only with marginal access to the decision-making processes on European level and with limited advantage-taking from the common financial resources.
2 March 2012, Friday
European Youth Centre Budapest, 1024 Zivatar utca 1-3.
You can register for the conference at this link until 29 February, 2012. |
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Visiting the IMF |
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On 30 January 2012 Ferenc Karvalits, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary made a presentation entitled International Loan Negotiations and Economic Perspectives. |
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Joint Position Paper to the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism |
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On 18 January 2012, the Hungarian Europe Society, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Eötvös Károly Public Policy Institute and the Standards (Mérték) Media Monitor sent a letter on the Hungarian Media Law and its Application to the new advisory body created by the European Commission. |
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Traditional HES Annual Workshop |
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On 29 December 2011, the Hungarian Europe Society held its regular annual workshop where HES members made presentations for HES members.
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Györgyi Kocsis: Humpty Dumpty in Europe: the Hungarian Government Is Hesitating about the European Union
István Pál Ádám: Contributions to the History of Concierges in Budapest during the First Half of the 20th Century
Kinga Szuly: Why Do not We Have a European Public Sphere if We Do Have it?
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The Hungarian Europe Society in solidarity with the hunger strike for a fair public media |
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The decision of the Constitutional Court of 19 December 2011 has finally brought freedom of the print media in Hungary back but the court has done only half of the job as it failed to examine the anti-democratic legal provisions that affect the electronic media. It did so despite the fact that a radical transformation of the public media has for more than a year taken place. Media trade organisations are helpless in the face of political cleansing carried out under the cover of group layoffs, too.
The Hungarian Europe Society expresses solidarity with those who are continuing a hunger strike in support of the basic conditions of fair public media. The HES declares that without the initiative of Balázs Nagy Navarro and Aranka Szávuly the investigation of „professional errors” in the edition of evening news on 3 December and partial punishment of those responsible would not have taken place. The management of the public media, however, is still hiding the full truth from the public. Moreover, the punishment remains so far inconsistent and protections against editorial censorship are still missing despite the fact that the Hungarian media law, that shocked the whole Europe, has been fully discredited by now.
As in its previous statements, the HES considers media freedom and governmental guarantees of the independence of the public media to be one of Europe’s most important achievements. The HES finds it hard to comprehend and accept that in a member state of the European Union one has to resort to the extreme instrument of a hunger strike to fight for these values.
Budapest, 21 December 2011
38 members voted in favour of the declaration, 2 persons abstained from voting and 1 member voted against it. |
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On the behaviour of the Hungarian Government and the Deepening of the European Integration |
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Declaration of the Hungarian Europe Society on the behaviour of the Hungarian government and the deepening of the European integration
The Hungarian Europe Society welcomes the agreement of the European Council on December 8-9, 2011. We consider that an immediate easing of the European debt and credit crisis as well as the financial technical measures and long-term reforms are equally important. Therefore we appreciate the efforts taken by the French-German led European political elite to solve the crisis.
It is encouraging that the new agreement avoids the formal division of the Member States of the European Union into different circles according to being a member of the Eurozone and being out of it, thanks also to the firm position of the Central and Eastern European countries and the euro-friendly attitude of the Polish government. In this situation the confused behaviour of the Hungarian Prime Minister has been particularly startling and incomprehensible. His first „no”, which was followed by a „perhaps” under the cover of the the Hungarian Parliament’s decision suggests the nightmare of a real second- or third-rate membership. The strengthening eurosceptism and hesitation of Viktor Orbán makes us extremely worried about the direction in which he and his two-third parliamentary majority wishes to lead Hungary: whether towards a close cooperation with the other Member States or, on the contrary, to isolation and the periphery of the continent.
The euro has become the most concrete symbol of the idea of a united Europe. It is in the interest of us all that the single European currency becomes a stable one in as many Member States of the EU as possible, thus soon in Hungary as well, and for it to remain a strong currency worldwide. For this the European economic governance must be reinforced, rationality of national economic policies must be guaranteed and controlled, economic growth and improvement of competitiveness both in and outside the Eurozone must be ensured. We agree that Member States that wish to participate in a closer political and economic integration should not be hindered in going forward by a few hesitating, eurosceptic countries. As such, we greatly regret the British Prime Minister’s isolationist policy in Brussels last week.
The intergovernmental conference on the new treaty nevertheless constitutes a great chance for a European renewal. The reinforcement of European level economic cooperation, budgetary discipline and monetary policy may result not in the weakening but in the extension of democratic European decision-making. Intergovernmental bargaining is not yet equal to European governance! Institutional reforms are acceptable only if they, by strengthening the role of the European Commission and the European Parliament, ensure the survival of the all-European approach on the one hand, and make the active involvement of European citizens possible on the other. Moreover, the pressures of the crisis could become an opportunity to implement old reform plans, like replacing Member States’ contributions to the common EU-budget by own resources, and speeding up the European election reforms in order to make party competition more visible for European citizens.
We still believe that Hungary will not stay outside of the common efforts to renew Europe, and the Hungarian Parliament will authorize the government to take part in the negotiations of the new treaty.
Budapest, 10 December 2011
18 members voted in favour of the declaration, 22 persons abstained from voting and 9 members voted against it. |
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Controlled Transition |
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On 9 December 2011, Zsuzsanna Szelényi made a presentation entitled Arab Spring in Morocco about her experiences as election observer on behalf of the National Democratic Institute. |
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Ah, Poland |
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Roman Kowalski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Budapest made a presentation about the results of the current Polish Council Presidency and the elections in Poland on 3 November 2011.
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Success or Failure: Review of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union |
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The Hungarian Europe Society was one of the main organisers of the event together with the European Liberal Forum, the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit and the Republikon Institute (Hungary). The conference was funded by the European Parliament. Venue: ZARA Continental Hotel, H-1074 Budapest, Dohány u. 42-44.
Date: 9:30, 25 June 2011 Working language: English
Program  
György Geréby Balázs Dénes, István Hegedűs   
Kai-Olaf Lang Piotr Maciej Kaczyński 
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, Csaba Tóth, István Hegedűs 
Michael J. Jordan, Attila Mong, István Hegedűs, Oana Popescu, Judit Bayer 
András Keil, János Ladányi, Angéla Kóczé |
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Latest News |
István Hegedűs replied to the question of Judy Dempsey: „Should the UEFA European Football Championship Matches Hosted in Ukraine be Boycotted?” on the blog of Carnegie Europe on 2 May 2012. |
On 24 April 2012, the Hungarian Europe Society joined the call initiated by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union urging the Hungarian government and parliament to respect the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. |
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió assessing the presentation of the Hungarian Prime Minister in the European Policy Centre on 23 April 2012. Part 1 Part 2 |
István Hegedűs gave a reply to Judy Dempsey’s question: Should Europe Stop Relying on the United States for Its Security? on the blog entitled Strategic Europe launched by the think tank Carnegie Europe on 18 April 2012. |
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From the New President of State to the Crisis of the Hungarian Democracy |
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István Hegedűs made a presentation and held a consultation to the students of the EUrope Learning Community at the New York University on skype on 18 April 2012. |
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István Hegedűs held a presentation at the Budapest College of Communication, Business and Arts entitled Europe and Hungary on 3 April 2012. |
Paul Gradvohl was one of the speakers at the conference of the Hungarian Europe Society on 2 March 2012. His analysis entitled Hongrie. Bras de fer avec l’Union européenne was published in La Documentation française on 2 April 2012. |
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István Hegedűs elaborated his views on the position of Hungary inside the European Union in Klubrádió on 25 March 2012. |
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Another Follow-Up of the Conference |
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István Hegedűs’s interview entitled Európai identitásunkat vonja kétségbe a kormány was published in Élet és Irodalom on 9 March 2012. |
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Follow-up of the Conference |
On 8 March 2012 the presentation of István Hegedűs entitled Európai vagy magyar Magyarország held at the international conference organised by the Hungarian Europe Society on 2 March 2012 in Budapest was published on magyarnarancs.hu. |
István Hegedűs was the guest of Klubrádió’s morning program on 27 February 2012. Part 1Part 2Part 3 |
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Hungary against the European Union? |
What does it mean for Hungary to be an EU member? was the title of a roundtable discussion with the participation of István Hegedűs organised by the Szabadelvű Egyesület és a Szabad Emberek Magyarországért – Liberális Párt on 24 February 2012 in Nyitott Műhely, Budapest. Invitation |
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Retrospective historicism |
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 25 January 2012 about the meeting between the President of the European Commission and the Hungarian Prime Minister. Part 1 Part 2 |
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The Game of the Hungarian Government |
István Hegedűs gave an interview to the Romanian HotNews about the potential development of the conflict between Hungary and the European institutions on 20 January 2012. In English |
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Joint Position Paper to the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism |
On 18 January 2012, the Hungarian Europe Society, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Eötvös Károly Public Policy Institute and the Standards (Mérték) Media Monitor sent a letter on the Hungarian Media Law and its Application to the new advisory body created by the European Commission. |
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the conflict between the Hungarian government and the European institutions on 18 January 2012. |
István Hegedűs expressed his views on the room of maneuver of the Hungarian government after the statement of the European Commission in Il Piccolo on 13 January 2012. |
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back |
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on the increasing isolation of the Hungarian government in the European Union and the international media on 6 January 2012. |
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Operation Areas and Health |
On 18 December 2011, Tamás Révai will participate on the conference entitled Requirements and Challenges of Operation Areas organised by the Section of Catastrophe and Defence Health of the Hungarian Association of Military Science. ProgramPictures |
Homofóbia Magyarországon, a volume edited by Judit Takács has been recently published by L’Harmattan. The book will be presented by Miklós Hadas on 12 December 2011 in the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Invitation |
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Is the Learning Process Transitive? |
István Hegedűs, chairman of HES contributed as a moderator at the conference organised by the Centre for EU Enlargement Studies at the CEU entitled "Mapping Out Possibilities of V4 Countries in Strengthening the Civil Society Sectors of Serbia and Georgia" on 21 November 2011. Program |
A review of Péter Balázs's book entitled Magyarország és Európa was published by Tamás Fóti in the periodical BUKSZ. |
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István Hegedűs participated at the podium discussion „Nationalismus in Europa - eine Gefahr für die europäische Vision?” organised by JEF Thüringen at Erfurt University on 15 November 2011. |
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At the annual meeting of the Hungarian Europe Society István Hegedűs was re-elected as chairman of the organisation on 3 November 2011. Jerzy Celichowski and Györgyi Kocsis have become the two vice-chairpersons.
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Waiting for a Liberal Messiah |
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