Is Central Europe Damaging EU Enlargement?

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 2018. He claimed: "It is understandable that there is a fear in the air of an even deeper East-West divide in Europe after any further enlargement. Still, the solution should not be to exclude applicants who fulfill the necessary criteria. Instead, current EU mechanisms should be operationalised to monitor and, if necessary, sanction member governments—not member states—that regularly breach the shared values of the European community."

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The answer by István Hegedűs to Judy Dempsey's question was published on the blog of Carnegie Europe on 12 April 2018.
The answer by István Hegedűs to the question of Judy Dempsey "Is the Coronavirus Breeding Disinformation Across Europe?" was published on the blog of Carnegie Europe on 9 April 2020.
The article of István Hegedűs entitled "Európa-görcsök" ("Inflexibility towards Europe") was published in Népszava on 24 December 2002 about the completion of the accession negotiations between Hungary and the European Union
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "Party Politics on European Matters and the Divide between Political Elites and Citizens in Hungary" at the conferen
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "European Elections and European Party Politics: Lessons Learned from the Hungarian European Campaign" at the conference "European Elections between Domestic and European Politics – Sharing Best Practices" organised by the Centrul Român de Studii Global