István Hegedűs gave an interview to "The Newsmakers" program of the Turkish television TRT World about the attacks against the Central European University and its Founder on 12 December 2018. According to him, Orbán, Erdoğan and Putin use a joint rhetoric - with regional and national differences.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the results of the new Eurobarometer survey on 18 October 2018.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to the program "Bánó and Bolgár" of the Budapest 13th district TV on 26 September 2018 about the political room of maneuver of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán after the approval of the Sargentini report in the European Parliament.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 24 May 2018 about the results of the recent all-European survey.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Eurozóna in Klubrádió on 30 March 2018 about the relations between Hungary and the European Union from the regime-change to our recent times. He emphasised that the conflict between the illiberal Orbán-regime and the European democratic political elites was unavoidable.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió before the meeting of the European Council in Brussels on 23 February 2018.
2018 február 19-én Kocsis Györgyi a Lánchídrádióban beszélt arról a kezdeményezésről, amelyben civil szervezetek, köztük a MET, fordultak az Európai Biztonsági és Együttműködési Szervezet Demokratikus Intézmények és Emberi Jogok Hivatala igazgatójához, Sólrún Gísladóttirhoz 2018. január 28-án, kérve az EBESZ választási megfigyelői missziójának jelentős mértékű kiterjesztését a magyarországi általános választásokon.
On 7 February 2018 HES joined the initiative of Civilizáció, which aims to reduce the level of corruption in Hungary. The initiative is based on the study of Transparency International about possible measures to confine corruption, summarizing its main findings in 12 points.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió before the meeting of the leaders of the EU member states on 14 December 2017. He added that Donald Tusk, President of the European Council urged an open dialogue regarding the European refugee policy.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Hír TV about the trial on the so-called refugee quotas that was lost by the Hungarian government on 6 September 2017.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 1 May 2017.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the relationship between Fidesz and its European party family on 1 May 2017.
István Hegedűs answered Judy Dempsey's question on the blog of Carnegie Europe on 26 April 2017.
István Hegedűs was the guest of the program "Bánó és Bolgár" in TV13 on 5 April 2017.
István Hegedűs talked about the consequences of the British EU referendum in Klubrádió on 2 July 2016.
