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HES members met with Franziska Brantner, member of the Greens/European Free Alliance political group in the European Parliament for a discussion on European issues on 30 May 2012.
HES members met with Franziska Brantner, member of the Greens/European Free Alliance political group in the European Parliament for a discussion on European issues on 30 May 2012.
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff was the guest of the Brussels section of HES on 29 May 2012. The deputy leader of ALDE (liberal) political group in the European Parliament made a presentation entitled "The Future of the Union: Federation or Re-nationalisation?".
The Hungarian Europe Society held а discussion evening entitled "The secret police past and the openness of files" on 23 May 2012. Its focus was on the historical and political aspects of the still open question of the communist secret police informers. The invited presenters were the historian László Varga and HES member József Gulyás, who was a member of the National Security Committee of the Hungarian Parliament until 2010.
The Center for European Union Research of the Central European University and the Hungarian Europe Society organised a roundtable debate entitled „Where are they? Civil society actors and European integration” at the Central European University on 17 April 2012. HES was represented by Rita Galambos.
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On 4 April 2012 Mihály Laki, Research Fellow of the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences made a presentation entitled Hungarian Big Entrepreneurs and Multinational Firms.
Recent behaviour of the Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has raised questions whether the country is steering outside the European Union either by leaving the political and economic integration on its own decision or by provoking its expulsion by the European institutions and the other member states. There exist also mid-way potential scenarios.
On 30 January 2012 Ferenc Karvalits, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary made a presentation entitled International Loan Negotiations and Economic Perspectives.
On 9 December 2011, Zsuzsanna Szelényi made a presentation entitled Arab Spring in Morocco about her experiences as election observer on behalf of the National Democratic Institute.
On 29 December 2011, the Hungarian Europe Society held its regular annual workshop where HES members made presentations for HES members.
Program
Györgyi Kocsis: Humpty Dumpty in Europe: the Hungarian Government Is Hesitating about the European Union
István Pál Ádám: Contributions to the History of Concierges in Budapest during the First Half of the 20th Century
Kinga Szuly: Why Do not We Have a European Public Sphere if We Do Have it?
Roman Kowalski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Budapest made a presentation about the results of the current Polish Council Presidency and the elections in Poland on 3 November 2011.
László Majtényi, President of the Eötvös Károly Institute made a presentation entitled Transformation of the Constitutional and Political System in Hungary on 31 May 2011.
HES contributed to the organisation of the roundtable debate at the Central European University on 22 June 2011.
On 20 December 2010, the Hungarian Europe Society held its regular annual workshop in the new building of the Representation of the European Commission in Hungary where HES members made presentations for HES members on actual Hungarian and European issues.
Program:
Introduction: Tamás Szűcs (Head of the Representation), István Hegedűs (HES Chairman)
László Jankovics: About the Reform of the European Economic Co-ordination or What to Do with the First Letter of EMU?
Paczolay Péter, az Alkotmánybíróság elnöke tartott előadást Szükség van-e új alkotmányra? címmel 2010. szeptember 27-én.
Péter Paczolay, President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court held a presentation entitled "Is there a need for a new constitution?" on 27 September 2010.