Is there a Third Way between a Condemnation by the European Parliament and the "Nuclear" Option?

Is there a Third Way between a Condemnation by the European Parliament and the "Nuclear" Option?

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The Hungarian Europe Society organised a workshop entitled "Illiberal democracies – what can the European Union do in case a member state regularly and systematically breaches European values and regulations?" on 2 June 2015 in the European Parliament, Brussels.
List of participants
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Open Society Foundations
Policy paper:
István Hegedűs, Zsuzsanna Végh: Illiberal Democracies: What can the European Union do in case a member state regularly and systematically breaches European values and regulations? July 2015
Media coverage:
Hungarian Spectrum, Will the European People's Party Abandon Viktor Orbán? Unlikely, 4 June 2015
nol.hu, Orbán miatt már kivágnák a Fideszt az Európai Néppártból, 2 June 2015nol.hu, Az EU nem fogja megbuktatni Orbánt - interview with Rui Tavares, Katalin Halmai, Népszabadság, 3 June 2015
magyarhirlap.hu, Guevara szégyellné, Pál Dippold, 4 June 2015
origo.hu, Új fejezet kezdődött a magyarországi korrupcióban, 2 June 2015
spieler.blog, Bréking: Kiszivárgott a forgatókönyv a liberális inkvizíció magyarfenyítéséről!! 1 June 2015
Temenos, Napi jegyzet, 3 June 2015
delmagyar.hu, Műhelytanácskozás az EP-ben az illiberális demokráciáról, 2 June 2015
Klubrádió, News 12:00, Gábor Nemes, 2 June 2015
Klubrádió, News 14:00, Gábor Nemes, 2 June 2015

Klubrádió, Esti gyors, Gábor Nemes, 2 June 2015

PROGRAM
8.15-8.45 Access to the European Parliament
8.45-9.15 Registration
9.15 Opening Remarks - István Hegedűs (Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest)
9.30 1. Session – Illiberal democracies in the world: conceptual dilemmas and the increasing competition between different models of political regimes in the light of populist and nationalist tendencies in Europe 
Introductory remarks (ten-ten minutes):
Kati Piri (Member of the European Parliament - S&D Group, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Partij van de Arbeid. Brussels): Do we have successful illiberal democracies? (tbc)
Takis Pappas (Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence): Left-wing populism: a threat to liberal democracy?
Jeremy Druker (Executive Director and Editor in Chief, Transitions, Prague): An authoritarian's bag of tricks for influencing the traditional and social media
Brain-storming
11.00 Coffee break 

11.30 2. Session - The state of democracy in Hungary: political and legal conflicts between the Hungarian government and the European institutions in the last five years
Introductory remarks (ten-ten minutes):
Rui Tavares (Historian, former Member of the European Parliament, Lisbon): The resolution of the European Parliament on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary: clash between the values of the European Union and the majoritarian perception of democracy 
Gábor Polyák (Director, Mérték Média Monitor, Budapest, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster): European institutions defending media freedom and media pluralism in Hungary: what have they achieved?
Benedek Jávor (Member of the European Parliament – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Párbeszéd Magyarországért, Brussels): Recent Hungarian scandals about the use of EU funds
Brain-storming
12.45 Lunch Break
14.15 3. Session - What can the European Union do in case a member state regularly and systematically breaches European norms and regulations?
Introductory remarks (ten-ten minutes):
Kim Lane Scheppele (Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School University Center for Human Values, Princeton University): The systemic infringement action proposal and the European Commission
Carlos Closa (Director, Research Area European, Transnational and Global Governance, Global Governance Programme/Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole): Reinforcing rule of law oversight in the European Union
Dimitry Kochenov (Chair of EU Constitutional Law at the Department of European and Economic Law, University of Groningen): Europe's justice deficit
Brain-storming
15.45 Coffee break
16.00 4. Session - European and national public spheres: the role of political elites, civil society and the media in contextualising and framing public discourse about fundamental all-European values
Introductory remarks (ten-ten minutes):
Jean-Paul Marthoz: (EU Correspondent, Committee to Protect Journalists, Brussels): Media freedom and pluralism under pressure in Europe 
Ernst Stetter (Secretary General, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels): Populism in the European political debates
Brain-storming
17.30 Summary and conclusion
Zsuzsanna Szelényi (Member of the Hungarian Parliament - Együtt Party)
17.45 Closing remarks
István Hegedűs (Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society, Budapest)

02 June 2015.
04 June 2015.
English
Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary, leader of the Alliance Together - Dialogue for Hungary made a presentation for members of the Hungarian Europe Society on 28 August 2013.  
The Hungarian Europe Society organised a workshop entitled "Illiberal democracies – what can the European Union do in case a member state regularly and systematically breaches European values and regulations?" on 24 April 2015 in Hotel Marmara, Budapest.