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Is Central Europe Damaging EU Enlargement?

István Hegedűs was one of the experts who answered Judy Dempsey's question on Carnegie Europe's blog on 28 February...

Budget, Rule of Law, Solidarity

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió before the meeting of the European Council in Brussels on 23 February...

Discussion at the Buda Liberal Club

What are the consequences of the "unorthodox" economic policy of the last 8 years in Hungary? Are the artificially...

For Free and Fair Elections

On 19 February 2018 Györgyi Kocsis gave an interview to Lánchídrádió about the initiative of the Hungarian Europe...

Against Corruption

On 7 February 2018 HES joined the initiative of Civilizáció, which aims to reduce the level of corruption in Hungary....

Strasbourg

On 29 January 2018 fourteen Hungarian civil organisations, including HES, submitted a joint appeal to the European...

Open Letter

For the initiative of the Hungarian Europe Society, civil society organisations appealed to Sólrún Gísladóttir,...

The Troublemaker

István Hegedűs was quoted in a long article published by the Financial Times about Viktor Orbán on 25 January 2018: “...

Illiberals and Refugees

István Hegedűs was one of the guest speakers at the roundtable entitled "Perspectives on Migration in the European...

Stop Civil!

On 19 January 2018 the Hungarian Europe Society protested against the bill called "Stop Soros!" at a joint press...

What Happened to Him?

István Hegedűs in Hír TV.

Summit

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió before the meeting of the leaders of the EU member states on 14 December...

The European Parliament and the European Commission in Action

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 8 December 2017 about the public hearing in the LIBE Committee of the...

The European Experience

The online booklet was published in the framework of the EUbyCitizens project managed by Maison de l'Europe...

Pole and Hungarian: Two Friends

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 17 November 2017 following the vote of the European Parliament to...

Karolina Boiret (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Michał Czerniawski (Vrije Universitet Brussel), Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada (Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża) and István Hegedűs (Hungarian Europe Society)

State Propaganda in the Hungarian Media

István Hegedűs participated at the policy forum entitled "Migration Crisis as a Challenge for Democracy" at the...

Populism Here, Populism There

István Hegedűs participated at the worskhop "Fragility and Resilience of Democracies in Europe. Where now for...

What About My Engagement?

On 26 October 2017 at an event in Debrecen organised by Civilizáció, a grouping of Hungarian civil organizations...

Hungary’s Future in the European Union

István Hegedűs made a presentation for students of the Institute for Political Studies of the Bergische Universität...

An Illiberal State in the Heart of Europe

As a supportive organisation, the Hungarian Europe Society signed a report on 18 October 2017 elaborated by...

NGO Consultation

Judit Bayer represented HES at a workshop organised by the Eötvös Károly Institute (EKINT) and the Budapest Goethe...

Orbán Has Not Decided, Yet

L'Espresso published an article by Stefano Giantin on 15 October 2017 about two nationalist-populist EU member...

Pressure and Solidarity

Salil Shetty, Secretary General of the Amnesty International met representatives of Hungarian NGO-s, including...

Brussels and the "Soros Plan"

István Hegedűs gave an interview about the potential reaction of the European Commission to the new national...

Weiter, Merkel!

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Civil Rádió about the German parliamentary elections on 25 September 2017...

The State of the Union

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 13 September 2017 about the speech of Jean-Claude Juncker, President...

Protest Is Going On

On 29 August 2017 HES and twenty-two other NGO-s filed a challenge with Hungary's constitutional court...

The Protest Goes On

On 12 September 2017 thirty-one Hungarian NGO-s, including HES, signed a joint declaration to draw the...

Berlin and Budapest

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 11 September 2017 about German governmental reactions to the ruling of...

The Limits of Propaganda

András Schweitzer's opinion piece was published in the Guardian "Why Viktor Orbán has a problem turning his...

Solidarity: One-Way Street

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 6 September 2017 about the ruling of the European Court of Justice...

On the Ruling of the European Court of Justice

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Hír TV about the trial on the so-called refugee quotas that was lost by the...

Brussels Should Pay!

István Hegedűs' view was quoted in Il Piccolo on 2 September 2017 about the fresh request of the Hungarian...

Deteriorating Situation in Eastern Europe

Tamás Fóti represented HES at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum of the European Union in Brussels on 11-12...

Will the CEU Remain in Budapest?

István Hegedűs gave an interview about the Hungarian government's policy against the Central European...

Who Will Conduct Brexit Negotiations?

István Hegedűs was one of the guests of the event entitled "Early Elections in Britain" organised by...

The Last Stop

István Hegedűs, Zsófia Stahl and András Schweitzer participated at the final meeting of the EUbyCitizens project...

A New Élan

István Hegedűs answered to the question of Judy Dempsey "Is France Europe’s Redeemer?" on the blog of...

To the Attention of Jean-Claude Juncker

The Hungarian Europe Society sent an open letter to the President of the European Commission on 5 May 2017...

Thirteen Years in the European Union

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 1 May 2017.

Orbán Facing the Presidency of the European People

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the relationship between Fidesz and its European party family on 1...

Is Populism on the Run?

István Hegedűs answered Judy Dempsey's question on the blog of Carnegie Europe on 26 April 2017.

Write an E-mail!

Hungarian NGO-s, including the Hungarian Europe Society, started a campaign on 26 April 2017 asking citizens...

Enemies of Viktor Orban

István Hegedűs gave an interview to the Irish Times about the political thinking of the Hungarian Prime...

We are civil society, we are free, we are Hungarians and we are Europeans

The Hungarian Europe Society was one of the initiators of the demonstration held on 12 April 2017 at Heroes Square...

Orbán and the CEU

On 9 April 2017 Index published an interview by Gergely Brückner with István Hegedűs about the reasons of the...

Forty Minutes Europe

István Hegedűs was the guest of the program "Bánó és Bolgár" in TV13 on 5 April 2017.

Civil Society Solidarity

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Radio France International in Romania about the actions of the government...

Solidarity with the CEU

The Central European University in Budapest has been under attack by the Hungarian Orbán-government. On 31 March 2017,...

Next Station

Zsófia Stahl and András Schweitzer participated at the workshop of the EuropebyCitizens project in Bucharest ...

White Paper

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Civil Rádió about the alternative scenarios concerning the future of the European...

Wilders Was Stopped

István Hegedűs talked about the Dutch parliamentary elections in Klubrádió on 16 March 2017.

Relocation and Resettlement

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the refugee policy of the European Commission on 3 March 2017.

Counterrevolution

Takis Pappas, visiting scholar at the Central European University made a presentation entitled "What do the people...

A Twofold Task

István Hegedűs' answer to Judy Dempsey's question „Should the EU Sanction Its Members?” was published on...

I Want to Teach

HES supported the demonstration of NGO-s for the reform of the Hungarian education system on 5 February 2017.

Strategic Planning

András Radnóti participated at the workshop of the Liberal South East European Network in Sofia on 23-24 January 2017.