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European History, European Values

Zsófia Stahl and István Hegedűs participated at the meeting of the EUbyCitizens project, organised by the ...

Propaganda in the Hungarian State Media

István Hegedűs gave a presentation at the "Whose Media, Whose Interests? Ownership, Public Sphere and Online Space...

The Caricature of Political Correctness

István Hegedűs analysed Viktor Orbán's new speech at Kötcse in Népszabadság on 12 September 2016.

Against Brussels?

István Hegedűs gave an interview to the Bulgarian newspaper Kapitol about the European politics of the Visegrad...

From the Politics of Fear to the Politics of Vision

István Hegedűs replied to the question „Can the EU Survive Without the EU?” raised by Judy Dempsey on the...

A Second Defence Wall?

István Hegedűs' opinion was quoted about Viktor Orbán's new fence building plan in Il Piccolo on 27 August 2016.

In the Grey Zone

The essay entitled "Ungarn zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur" by István Hegedűs was published in the journal...

Bregret

István Hegedűs talked about the consequences of the British EU referendum in Klubrádió on 2 July 2016.

The Negative Consequences of Brexit

István Hegedűs talked about the current European and British political turmoil at the conference entitled "The...

Little England

István Hegedűs was invited to the debate about Brexit organised by Hayek Klub on 29 June 2016 in Mozsár Café...

Hectic European History

Zsófia Stahl and András Schweitzer participated at the workshop of the EUbyCitizens projekt, organised by the Maison de...

Ask Not What the EU Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for the EU

On 22 June 2016 Carnegie Europe posted on its blog the views of István Hegedűs about the consequences of the...

The Quality of Democracy

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled "Populist Turn in the European Union?" at the annual conference of the...

Hillary is the Final Favorite

On 6 June 2016 Szabolcs Panyi, editor-journalist of Index online journal and Csaba Tóth, strategic director of...

Charisma of Viktor Orban

István Hegedűs held a presentation at the conference "Challenges for Political Leaders in Central and Eastern...

Eastern Neighbours

Zsuzsanna Végh joined the meeting of the Democracy and Human Rights Working Group at the Eastern Partnership Civil...

Diplomatic Assessment of the Semester

Gajus Scheltema, Ambassador of the Royal Netherlands Embassy to Hungary was the guest of HES on 24 May 2016. The...

Common History of Europe

Zsófia Stahl and András Schweitzer participated at the meeting of the EUbyCitizens project in Warsaw on 18-19...

Is It More Spacious Outside?

István Hegedűs held a lecture entitled "Will Hungary Leave the European Union?" at the Faculty of Social Sciences of...

EU by Citizens in Paris

Zsófia Stahl participated at the first meeting of the "EUbyCitizens" project organised by "La Maison de...

Populism and Participation

András Schweitzer participated in the framework of the European Citizen Rights project in the training of the...

What Can the European Union Do In Case of Poland?

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 5 January 2015 about the European Commission's move to deal with...

Hero of Our Time or a Marginal Figure?

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Agence France-Presse about the influence of Viktor Orbán's politics on Europe...

Free To Fly

On 8 December 2015 the Hungarian Europe Society signed the “Petition to European Parliament and the EU Council to...

Petition to European Parliament and the EU Council To accelerate the signing of an agreement on the Common Aviation Area between the European Union and its member states and Ukraine

We, Visa-Free Coalition members require signing of an agreement on the Common Aviation Area between the European Union...

Quotas Challenged in Court

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Civil Rádió on 7 December 2015 about the Hungarian government's move to go to the...

European Public Sphere and the "Conservative Subversive"

István Hegedűs gave an interview on 4 December 2015 about a new poll directed by the European Parliament and...

New European Citizens

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Civil Rádió on 30 November 2015 about the start of collecting signatures for the...

Outrageous Celebration

On 23 November 2015 the Hungarian Europe Society joined the protest against the statue unveiling of Bálint...

European Perspective

Zsuzsanna Végh gave a presentation in the panel discussion “EU Membership Prospects for Moldova, Georgia and...

What Can European Liberals Do For Hungary?

István Hegedűs participated at the meeting between Guy Verhofstadt and Sophie in 't Veld, ALDE Group Leaders in the...

Pure and Hybrid Regimes

István Hegedűs gave a presentation about the classification of Hungary's political system at the...

After the Massacres in Paris

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the European refugee policy on 16 November 2015.

Hungarian Constitution-Making in Europe

On 12 November 2015 the Hungarian Europe Society sent its recommendations to the discussion paper "Let's Have...

Liberals for the Balkans

Beáta Huszka participated at the workshop on the relationship between the Balkan countries and the rule of...

Do We Still Have Human Rights?

István Hegedűs made a presentation at the conference "40th anniversary of the Helsinki Conference: Human rights in...

NGO Networking

István Hegedűs participated at the consultations „Have your say in safeguarding civic space” organised by the...

Sharing Experience

On 23 October 2015 Attila Bartha made a presentation at the conference "Public-Private Dialogue in EU Integration...

European Citizen Rights in Budapest

Citizen Rights: EUROPEAN CALL FOR APPLICATION The Budapest event of the NGO training programme is co-...

Visit of a Hungarian Party Delegation

On 14 October 2015 István Hegedűs made a presentation to members of Együtt who participated at a study tour in Brussels...

Euroscepticism: a Threatening Tendency?

István Hegedűs took part as an invited expert at the seminar of the Heinrich Böll Foundation entitled "How to...

Orbán's strategy about the migration

An interview with István Hegedűs about the Hungarian political development was published on the website of RAI...

Illiberalism and Refugee Crisis

István Hegedűs examined the politics of the Hungarian government at the event entitled "The European Union and the...

Orbán and the Refugees

In Bilbao István Hegedűs analysed the political stance of the Hungarian government in the European migration crisis...

Supranational or National Solution?

István Hegedűs made a presentation on the European and Hungarian dimensions of the refugee crisis at the panel "...

Solana and Orbán

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 25 September 2015 about the hard critical remarks by European...

Qualified Majority Voting?

István Hegedűs discussed the decision-making system of the European Union and the behaviour of the Hungarian government...

Liberals on the Balkans

István Hegedűs represented the Hungarian Europe Society at the LIBSEEN (Liberal South East European Network) Leaders...

Refugees in Hungary

István Hegedűs was interviewed by the Latvian Television about the migration crisis on 12 September 2015.

Humanism and the Refugees

On 8 September 2015, Hungarian NGO-s, including the Hungarian Europe Society, in a joint statement, asked the...

Switzerland and Hungary

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 7 September 2015 about the political judgement on Viktor Orbán in...

Cameron in Europe

On 19 August 2015, in Klubrádió, István Hegedűs talked about the British Prime Minister's European tour where he...

The Brussels Connection

István Hegedűs elaborated his views in an interview to Klubrádió on 29 July 2015 whether Hungarian politicians were...

Double Zero

István Hegedűs gave a short interview to Klubrádió on 22 July 2015 about the decision of the Hungarian government...

Communities and Rights

Rita Galambos participated in the training of the Create/React program in the framework of the European...

Historical Memories and Hungarian Party Politics

István Hegedűs made a presentation for students of Princeton University at the seat of HES on 10 July 2015.

The United States, Central Europe, Russia

István Hegedűs participated at the roundtable conference organised by the Transatlantic Renewal Project on 9-10 July...

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.