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The Hungarian Europe Society participated in a survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

Fanni Bársony participated at a study tour organised by the Polish Fundacja Edukacja dla Demokracji in Warsaw and Lublin between 25 February and 1 March 2019. At the meeting of civil groups, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak participants discussed how to cope with the political pressure on civil society in the region.

On 7 February 2018 HES joined the initiative of Civilizáció, which aims to reduce the level of corruption in Hungary. The initiative is based on the study of Transparency International about possible measures to confine corruption, summarizing its main findings in 12 points. 

For the initiative of the Hungarian Europe Society, civil society organisations appealed to Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to extend the engagement of the electoral observation mission regarding the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary.

On 26 October 2017 at an event in Debrecen organised by Civilizáció, a grouping of Hungarian civil organizations formed as a response to the attacks of the Hungarian government against the civil society, nine Hungarian civil organizations, including the Hungarian Europe Society, presented their activities in ‘flash presentations’.

Judit Bayer represented HES at a workshop organised by the Eötvös Károly Institute (EKINT) and the Budapest Goethe Institute on 17 October 2017. Participants discussed the interests and responsibility of civil society in defending European values. How can NGO-s secure the common values declared in Article 2 of the European Treaty requesting the European institutions and their own national governments to account how they implement them?