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Dance in Strasbourg

On 18 January 2011, István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the program speech of Viktor Orbán,...

Political Polarisation

The opinion of István Hegedűs was quoted in the on-line version of the New York Times on 17 January 2011 in a letter...

Moscow Mechanism

HES supports the appeal of numerous civil organisations to the member states of the OSCE in January 2011 to take urgent...

HES Blacks out Its Website Joining Protest

On the 21 December 2010 the Hungarian government pushed through a new media law in the parliament that is a collection...

Government under Crossfire

István Hegedűs’s article Half a Year of Solitude - Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian EU Presidency was published in...

Starting the EU Presidency under Attacks

István Hegedűs gave an interview about the Hungarian Council Presidency and the international criticism on the...

Hungarian Presidency - European Perspective

István Hegedűs’s article was published in the November-December 2010 issue of Európai Tükör.

In Bruges about Volunteering

On 26-28 November 2010, Citizens of Europe organised its OpenForum on Faces and Fakings of Volunteering. Ágnes...

Definition, Principles and Regulations

On 30 October 2010, Attila Bartha held a presentation entitled Introduction into the Labour Market at LYMEC Young...

Interplay between NGO-s and Politics

István Hegedűs made a presentation on the role of the civil society in Hungary at the conference EU Integration of the...

Schengen from Outside

The Stefan Batory Foundation organised a consultation in order to urge visa-free travel for Eastern neighbours of the...

Spaniards and Hungarians

On 3 November 2010, István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled Successful Hungarian EU Presidency? in Barcelona at the...

Do Parties Matter in the European Union?

Partisanship in the EU Decision-making Process was the title of the presentation held by István Hegedűs at the...

Can We Draw Historical Lessons from the Turmoil Two Decades Ago?

Twenty Years Blockade was the title of the article by István Hegedűs published in Hírszerző on 26 October 2010.

Terrible Child

Hungary - an “enfant terrible”? This was the title of the presentation held by István Hegedűs at the conference of the...

Coffee and Consultation

Stefano Manservisi, Director General for Home Affairs of the European Commission met representatives of HES - Anikó...

Freedom, Security and Justice

On 23-24 September 2010, the National Institute of Criminology celebrated its 50th Anniversary Year with a conference...

EU, Russian Duma, Human Rights

On 24 September 2010, Petra Bárd published her views on The Union, the Duma, and the Human Rights in the on-line...

Youth against Terror

On 23-26 September 2010, Zoltán Dóczi participated at the conference entitled Молодёжь против террора 2010 (Youth...

My Answer is No

On 29 September 2010, István Hegedűs argued against the initiative of the Hungarian government in his speech in a...

European Year of Volunteering

Ágnes Uhereczky represented HES at the preparatory meeting organised by the Germany-based Citizens of Europe between 24...

Growth

On 7 September 2010, the 1000th member joined the Facebook Group of the Hungarian Europe Society.

A Chance of Europeanisation

István Hegedűs gave an interview on the forthcoming Hungarian EU Presidency entitled Chance Might Become Risk...

On the Hungarian Media "Constitution"

On 12 August 2010, Mirjam Donáth's article entitled Hungary grapples with free-press issues was published on the...

Disability Rights Data Protection

Petra Bárd participated at the ELSA Summer School on "How to Become Homo Europeus?" between 19-27 July 2010 in...

Judicial Independence

On 14 July 2010 Petra Bárd participated as an invited speaker at the roundtable talks with US Supreme Court Justice...

Rejuvenating Lisbon

Petra Bárd gave a talk on "Rejuvenating The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice after the Entry into Force of the...

Future Generations and the Fundamental Rights

Between 5-17 July, 2010 Petra Bárd organized NICLAS, an international constitutional law summer school financed by the...

Genetic Databases

Petra Bárd gave a guest lecture on genetic databases in the forensic context from an EU perspective on 5 July 2010, at...

Advanced Lesson

István Hegedűs held a presentation entitled EU Membership of a Relatively New Member State: the Hungarian Case on the...

Balkans and Globalization

On 15-18 July 2010, András Deák participated at the LIBSEEN summer academy entitled “Balkans in the progress of...

Kosovo, Co-operation, Liberals

On 26-28 June 2009, Beáta Huszka and Borbála Kriza participated at the LIBSEEN event in Prishtina on the development of...

Liberalisms

The fall of Hungarian liberalism or the failure of the Hungarian liberal party? was the title of the presentation held...

EU Funding and Grants

On 26 May 2010 Iván Tosics gave an interview to Euractiv about the perspectives of the EU funding and grants.

Intercultural Relations

On 3-4 June 2010, Zoltán Dóczi participated at the conference entitled “Civil Society in Europe and the Arab Word -...

Six Years On

On 14 May, 2010, István Hegedűs held a presentation entitled {ln:http://cens.ceu.hu/sites/default/files/...

Politics, Analysis, Intellectuals

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled Political analysis and the problems of independence of professionals and...

Does National Interest Exist?

István Hegedűs took part in the panel discussion on the conference entitled In the Wake of the Hungarian National...

Then and Now: Accession Process and Membership

On 26 March 2010, István Hegedűs hold a guest lecture entitled EU Enlargements in Historical Perspective for the...

Interest Realisation, Interest Groups, Policies

Zoltán Simon’s book entitled “Érdekérvényesítés a közpolitikai döntéshozatalban az Európai Unióban és Magyarországon” (...

Students about the EU

Krisztina Arató (The Policy Areas of the European Union), István Hegedűs (Hungary and Central Europe in the European...

The Tobin case

Petra Bárd was interviewed about Before Lisbon, After Lisbon, alias about the European Arrest Warrant by...

The Europe-story

István Hegedűs’s article on the book Europe’s Journey by Krisztina Arató and Boglárka Koller was published in Figyelő...

Travelling in the Old Regime

Interviews taken by Zoltán Dóczi about the travelling to the west under communism was published in the publication of...

Europe journey

Boglárka Koller (HES member) and Krisztina Arató “Európa utazása. Integrációtörténet” (Europe’s Journey. The...

He Was Not Spectacular

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klub Radio about the European Parliament hearing of Commissioner-designate...

From Feminism to Nationalism

On 3 November 2009 Jerzy Celichowski’s article was published in Wysokie Obcasy, the Women’s Supplement of Gazeta...

The HES on Facebook

On December 2009 HES group was created on Facebook. In two weeks we had five-hundred people joining the group.

Regime Changers

In its winter issue 2009, the periodical Buksz published István Hegedűs’s analysis related to the book of...

Egy csekk és az integráció

István Hegedűs’s article was published in Figyelő, 12-18 November 2009.

Hungarian Parties in Europe

Party Political Adjustment to the European Structures Around the Regime-change was the title of the lecture...

HES Posted Its Declaration to the Polish Head of State

On 8 October 2009, Jerzy Celichowski vice-chariman e-mailed HES declaration on the Lisbon Treaty to the President of...

Our Lost Friend

On 27 July 2007, Lord Russell-Johnston, liberal politician and member of the advisory board of HES died in the age of...

Elections

At the annual meeting of the Hungarian Europe Society István Hegedűs was re-elected as chairman of the organisation on...

Starting Local

People and institutions were selected for the „EurActiv Awards for Debating Europe Nationally” at the end of September...

Transition and Realpolitics

On 1 October 2009, István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled „Radicalism and Self-Restraint: Fidesz and the Regime-...

Parallel Memories

Népszabadság published a parallel interview with István Hegedűs, chairman of HES and Péter Boross, former prime...

HES Publications

Facing the Tide

The publication titled Facing the Tide: Understanding and Countering the Illiberal Populist Surge was issued by the Hungarian Europe Society in January 2026. ...

Open Space

Európai nők

In May 2025, the Hungarian European Society published the posters from the "Európai nők" exhibition, created as part of the...
Open Space

Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody: Dancing with Dependency - Impacts of Lex OZE III on Czech Energy Security and Renewable Investments
Open Space

Mothers of Europe Project Publication Is Out

“Who were the Mothers of Europe?” Members of a consortium from the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Spain, Poland and Hungary sought answers to this question in a new edited volume and with the posters...
Open Space

What Can Liberals and Democrats Fight With? Finding a Winning Narrative in the High-stakes 2024 European Elections

The publication titled "What Can Liberals and Democrats Fight With?
Open Space

The Renewal of Liberal Democracy: Vision, Strategy, Competition. Parties and Civil Society

The publication "The Renewal of Liberal Democracy: Strategy, Vision, Competition, Parties, Civil Society" has been issued by the Hungarian Europe Society in June 2023. ...
Open Space

The Renewal of Liberal Democracy: Strategy, Vision, Competition, Parties, Civil Society

Summary of a Hungarian experts' workshop organised by the Hungarian Europe Society, 20 April 2023
Open Space

MACI Campaign

The HES joined MACI campaign promoting Hungarian civil organisations.