István Hegedűs gave an interview in Klubrádió on 16 July 2019 about the chances of Ursula von der Leyen, President-candidate to the European Commission before the plenary debate in the European Parliament.
The Hungarian Europe Society held an international conference supported by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit entitled "European Elections 2019 - Renewing the Political Agenda for a United Europe" on 12-13 April 2019 at the Ibis Styles Budapest Center (Rákóczi út 58, H-1074 Budapest).
The Hungarian Europe Society held an international conference supported by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit entitled "European Elections 2019 - Renewing the Political Agenda for a United Europe" on 12-13 April 2019 at the Ibis Styles Budapest Center (Rákóczi út 58, H-1074 Budapest).
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "Facing the European Parliamentary Elections: Hungary and the European Union" at the Faculty of Social Sciences at ELTE University on 10 April 2019.
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "The Sate of the European Union Before Brexit and the European Elections" for the Scientific Student Circle on Human Rights, Law and Social Theory at the University of Pécs on 3 April 2019.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 17 November 2017 following the vote of the European Parliament to launch the first phase of the procedure Article 7 of the EU treaty against the Polish government, pointing out that the Hungarian ruling party voted oppositely to its own political group.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 13 September 2017 about the speech of Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission held in Strasbourg in the European Parliament, emphasising that the Commission took the lead in the efforts to reform the European Union.
The Hungarian Europe Society sent an open letter to the President of the European Commission on 5 May 2017 concerning the communication of the Commission on the so-called national consultation "Stop Brussels" initiated by the Hungarian government. HES supports the efforts of the European Commission but has elaborated its suggestions how Hungarian citizens might be reached in order to understand the position of the Commission on European issues which are totally misinterpreted by the Orbán government.
The future of European integration is uncertain and a European democracy highly controversial. Yet while battling Euroscepticism with internal reforms, one should not forget two other risk factors of the European project: The British exit and the growing authoritarianism in Hungary.
István Hegedűs participated at the conference of the European Citizens’ Initiative for Media Pluralism organised by European Alternatives and Alliance Internationale de Journalistes in the European Parliament in Brussels on 31 May 2012.
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