István Hegedűs participated at the conference of the European Citizens’ Initiative for Media Pluralism organised by European Alternatives and Alliance Internationale de Journalistes in the European Parliament in Brussels on 31 May 2012.
István Hegedűs elaborated his views in an interview to Klubrádió on 29 July 2015 whether Hungarian politicians were allowed to access the European institutions criticising the Hungarian government.
István Hegedűs participated at the preparatory meeting of the common project "Citizen-rights Europe" organised by European Alternatives on 19-20 January 2015 in Rome.