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Europe After Elections and Facing New Options

István Hegedűs' article entitled "Frontharcok" was published in Magyar Narancs on 29 May 2014.

Who Will Be the President of the European Commission?

István Hegedűs gave an interview to ATV about the consequences of the European Parliament elections on 27 May 2014.

Final minutes of the European elections

The interview of István Hegedűs entitled "Fidesz has more critics than friends in European Peoples Party" was...

Who Is Going to Win?

István Hegedűs was a participant at the experts' roundtable discussion of the conference "The Stake of the...

Far Away from the Introduction of the Euro in Hungary

The analysis of Györgyi Kocsis entitled "Nem tisztelt ház. Mit mondanak ki, és mit hallgatnak el a pártok EP-...

Ten Years After the Accession

István Hegedűs and Györgyi Kocsis gave presentations at the conference of the Institute of Political History entitled "...

The Competition of the European Parties

The article "Európa hangos. Az európai parlamenti választások hajrája" by István Hegedűs was published in...

Sharing Learning Process of the Visegrad Countries in Georgia

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled „The Hungarian Experience: Accession Agreements and What Comes the Day...

Colonisation or Rent-seeking?

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Hír24 on the tenth anniversary of Hungary's accession to the European Union on...

Break-through of the Radicals in the European Parliament?

István Hegedűs talked about the potential strengthening of Eurosceptic and radical parties at the European elections in...

The Last Day of the European Parliament

István Hegedűs talked about the outgoing and the forthcoming European Parliament in Klubrádió on 17 April 2014.

Two Decades Ago

An interview with István Hegedűs about the Hungarian regime-change and the ideological shift of Fidesz entitled "I...

The Orbán Government in Europe

István Hegedűs, together with former Hungarian foreign minister Péter Balázs, was a guest in the radio program "...

Failure of the Democratic Opposition

The views of István Hegedűs on the Hungarian parliamentary elections were published by World Politics Review...

Who Is Going to Win?

On 4 April, István Hegedűs's opinion was quoted by the Monitor Global Outlook about the possible consequences...

Ongoing Campaign

The coalition of Hungarian NGO-s leading the "European Citizen's Initiative for Media Pluralism" collected almost...

Battlefield

István Hegedűs's views were cited on Viktor Orbán's European policy in an article published in Népszabadság ...

Participation Without Panic

On 28 February 2014, István Hegedűs gave a telephone interview to Klubrádió about the significance of the...

The Citizen, Power and Democracy in Europe’s Crisis

Bartha Attila, a member of the Hungarian Europe Society was a discussant and made a brief presentation entitled „...

The Future of the European Idea

István Hegedűs participated at the roundtable discussion of the conference entitled New Pact for Europe -...

Lack of Alternative?

The views of István Hegedűs were quoted in a piece by Stefano Giantin in Il Piccolo on 14 February...

Shuttlecock Policy

István Hegedűs was interviewed about the foreign policy of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in Pacsirta...

Who Can Travel to the United States?

On 11 February 2014, in Bratislava, the Selection Committee of the Danube Region established by the German Marshall...

Opening to the East

István Hegedűs was quoted in Monitor Global Outlook, a premium supplement of Christian Science Monitor in an...

Media Regulation Reconsidered

Györgyi Kocsis, vice-chairwoman of the Hungarian Europe Society was the moderator of a public debate on the role of the...

Entering Ukraine

Statement by the Steering Committee of the Visa-free Europe Coalition - On planned amendments to rules of entering...

Enlargement

Kim Lane Scheppele, constitutional lawyer at Princeton University joined the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Europe...

Solidarity

On 19 December 2013 the Visa-Free Europe Coalition, of which the Hungarian Europe Society is a member, issued a...

In Favour of the Euro

István Hegedűs argued in favour of the introduction of the single European currency in Hungary in Klubrádió on 26...

Stock-Exchange on Information

"The creation of a Europe-wide database of NGO-s supporting the development of European integration, as well as a...

Media Festival

"As politics keeps on meddling in our lives, we are forced to meddle in politics as well" claimed Györgyi Kocsis to...

From Neelie Kroes

On 13 November 2013, the Vice-President of the European Commission answered in details to the letter...

To Viviane Reding

HES signed a joint letter written by many Hungarian NGO-s to the Vice-President of the European Commission on...

Nationalism and Ethnicity

A new book from Beáta Huszka entitled "Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict: Debate-Framing and...

Media Council and Media Pluralism

Four Hungarian NGOs - CivilMedia, the Hungarian Europe Society, Mérték Monitor, and the SEENPM - sent a letter to...

Comparison between Hungary and Norway

"Changing models of media authorities" - was the title of the public debate held on October 3rd in the House of the...

Breaking News

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió during the lunch break of the conference on media pluralism organised by...

Media Pluralism in European Context

István Hegedűs talked about the forthcoming conference of HES and analysed European political issues in Klubrádió on 25...

How do the members of the European Parliament vote?

Ágnes Sebestyén - representing HES - participated in the event of VoteWatch Europe entiteld "...

Viktoroly

An interview by István Hegedűs entitled "Útban az euroszkeptikusok felé" ("On the way towards the Eurosceptics")...

Media Pluralism Campaign again

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) on Media Pluralism and Press Freedom was approved by the European...

Maffia State and the Party

István Hegedűs talked about the Hungarian political polarisation in ATV on 21 August 2013.

Pragmatism and Ideology

The contribution by István Hegedűs entitled "Maffiaállam és párt" was published in Élet és Irodalom on 8...

Fundamental Rights in the European Union

István Hegedűs held a presentation at the summer university of the International Centre for Democratic Transition...

On the HES Declaration

István Hegedűs was the guest of ATV morning program on 17 July 2013. (in Hungarian)

Bureaucratic and Colonialist?

István Hegedűs talked about the critical views of the Hungarian government on the European Union in Klubrádió on 13...

Almost a Monitoring Procedure

On 26 June 2013 István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the resolution taken by the Parliamentary...

A Free and Pluralistic Media to Sustain European Democracy

On 14 June 2013 Hungarian NGO-s completed their opinion on the recommendations of the High Level Group on Media...

New European Economic and Social Model?

István Hegedűs participated at the workshop entitled A Future Agenda for Eastern and Central Europe organised...

Freedom of the Press from a Liberal Perspective

Hegedűs István participated at the Ralf Dahrendorf roundtable discussion on “European Values: The Media – The Artillery...

Democratic Parties Against Extremists in Europe

Zsófia Stahl represented the Hungarian Europe Society at the workshop "Getting Ready for the European Parliament...

Second Public Consultation

On 5 June 2013 Judit Bayer and István Hegedűs represented HES at the new round of an expert meeting in the Independent...

At Babeş-Bolyai University

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled "The political renewal of the European Union" at the annual conference of...

Problems of Media Freedom in Hungary

István Hegedűs made a presentation at the conference on “The role of national parliaments in media regulation...

Paragraph Deal?

On 25 May 2013, in the weekly HVG, Györgyi Kocsis analysed the position of the Hungarian Socialist Party on the...

Strategic Consultation

István Hegedűs participated at the meeting of the campaign organisers of the European Initiative for Media Pluralism in...

Public Consultation

On 16 May 2013 István Hegedűs represented HES in an expert meeting in the Independent Journalism Centre in Budapest....

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.