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Media Festival

"As politics keeps on meddling in our lives, we are forced to meddle in politics as well" claimed Györgyi Kocsis to...

From Neelie Kroes

On 13 November 2013, the Vice-President of the European Commission answered in details to the letter...

To Viviane Reding

HES signed a joint letter written by many Hungarian NGO-s to the Vice-President of the European Commission on...

Nationalism and Ethnicity

A new book from Beáta Huszka entitled "Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict: Debate-Framing and...

Media Council and Media Pluralism

Four Hungarian NGOs - CivilMedia, the Hungarian Europe Society, Mérték Monitor, and the SEENPM - sent a letter to...

Comparison between Hungary and Norway

"Changing models of media authorities" - was the title of the public debate held on October 3rd in the House of the...

Breaking News

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió during the lunch break of the conference on media pluralism organised by...

Media Pluralism in European Context

István Hegedűs talked about the forthcoming conference of HES and analysed European political issues in Klubrádió on 25...

How do the members of the European Parliament vote?

Ágnes Sebestyén - representing HES - participated in the event of VoteWatch Europe entiteld "...

Viktoroly

An interview by István Hegedűs entitled "Útban az euroszkeptikusok felé" ("On the way towards the Eurosceptics")...

Media Pluralism Campaign again

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) on Media Pluralism and Press Freedom was approved by the European...

Maffia State and the Party

István Hegedűs talked about the Hungarian political polarisation in ATV on 21 August 2013.

Pragmatism and Ideology

The contribution by István Hegedűs entitled "Maffiaállam és párt" was published in Élet és Irodalom on 8...

Fundamental Rights in the European Union

István Hegedűs held a presentation at the summer university of the International Centre for Democratic Transition...

On the HES Declaration

István Hegedűs was the guest of ATV morning program on 17 July 2013. (in Hungarian)

Bureaucratic and Colonialist?

István Hegedűs talked about the critical views of the Hungarian government on the European Union in Klubrádió on 13...

Almost a Monitoring Procedure

On 26 June 2013 István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the resolution taken by the Parliamentary...

A Free and Pluralistic Media to Sustain European Democracy

On 14 June 2013 Hungarian NGO-s completed their opinion on the recommendations of the High Level Group on Media...

New European Economic and Social Model?

István Hegedűs participated at the workshop entitled A Future Agenda for Eastern and Central Europe organised...

Freedom of the Press from a Liberal Perspective

Hegedűs István participated at the Ralf Dahrendorf roundtable discussion on “European Values: The Media – The Artillery...

Democratic Parties Against Extremists in Europe

Zsófia Stahl represented the Hungarian Europe Society at the workshop "Getting Ready for the European Parliament...

Second Public Consultation

On 5 June 2013 Judit Bayer and István Hegedűs represented HES at the new round of an expert meeting in the Independent...

At Babeş-Bolyai University

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled "The political renewal of the European Union" at the annual conference of...

Problems of Media Freedom in Hungary

István Hegedűs made a presentation at the conference on “The role of national parliaments in media regulation...

Paragraph Deal?

On 25 May 2013, in the weekly HVG, Györgyi Kocsis analysed the position of the Hungarian Socialist Party on the...

Strategic Consultation

István Hegedűs participated at the meeting of the campaign organisers of the European Initiative for Media Pluralism in...

Public Consultation

On 16 May 2013 István Hegedűs represented HES in an expert meeting in the Independent Journalism Centre in Budapest....

Working Document Number 5

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió about the session of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and...

Presidential Election

On 5 May 2013 the Hungarian Europe Society joined the proposal of the Association of Hungarian Journalists to the...

Letters From Brussels

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 3 May 2013 about the questions raised by the European Commission...

What Will the European Union Do?

On 17 April 2013 István Hegedűs gave an interview to Saarländischer Rundfunk about the concerns and procedures in the...

What will the European People's party do?

István Hegedűs talked about the debate in the European Parliament on Hungary in Klubrádió on 17 April 2013.

LIBE

On 10 April 2013 István Hegedűs talked in Klubrádió about the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home...

Continuity and Discontinuity

István Hegedűs gave an interview about Fidesz 25th anniversary to Klubrádió on 30 March 2013.

Extending Co-operation

The Coalition organising the campaign of the European Citizens' Initiative for Media Pluralism in Hungary accepted...

London campaign start

In Britain, the campaign of the European Citizens' Initiative for Media Pluralism started on 21 March 2013. István...

Orbán-government has the right to vote?

The interview (in English) by István Hegedűs on the modification of the Hungarian constitution and the...

Schulz and Orbán

István Hegedűs gave an interview to Klubrádió on 18 March 2013 about the summit of the European Council on the previous...

Orbán and Brussels: Sanctions Are Coming?

István Hegedűs gave an interview in Klubrádió about the new conflict between the Hungarian government and the...

Public Diplomacy and the Foreign Policy of the European Union

István Hegedűs participated at the conference "The European Union External Action in Times of Crisis and...

Is Hungary a Winner?

István Hegedűs talked about the new Multiannual Financial Framework and the share of Hungary from the Cohesion...

Death of Our Friend

Mark Palmer, Member of the Advisory Board of HES, former ambassador of the United States of America to Hungary during...

Freiberga Report

The joint position paper of the Hungarian Europe Society, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Eötvös Károly...

Hungarian Parties and EU Attitudes

Györgyi Kocsis was interviewed by Klubrádió about the HES PERC research on 11 January.

Once Again about PERCeptions

István Hegedűs was interviewed about the relations of the Hungarian parties and the European Union by Eszter...

Counting the PERC Index

István Hegedűs was the guest in the morning program START Plus of ATV on 7 December 2012. Watch the...

Transatlantic Dialogue

Enikő Pap represented the Hungarian Europe Society at the European Partners and Coordinators Meeting of the German...

Blog of the Commissioner

On 29 November 2012, István Hegedűs commented on the blog post by Neelie Kroes, member of the...

Roundtable

"Austerity, solidarity, stability? How economic and monetary union affects the new member states"- The annual ...

Summit Again

István Hegedűs was the guest in the Morning Person program of Klubrádió on 23 November

Looking for a European Solution in the Liberal South-Eastern-European Network

István Hegedűs participated at the event organised by LIBSEEN in Osijek, Croatia on 26-27 October 2012...

Summit

István Hegedűs talked about the European Council meeting in Brussels in Klubrádió on 19 October 2012.

Is European Integration Still a Question of War and Peace?

István Hegedűs answered the weekly question raised by Judy Dempsey on the website of Carnegie Europe on 10...

Wating for the Campaign Launch

The European Citizens’ initiative for Media Pluralism was registered by the European Commission on 5 October...

Advice to Eastern Neighbours

As its Hungarian partner, the Hungarian Europe Society joined the project of the Czech Association for International...

Reforms and Risks

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled Differenzierte Integration at the workshop Die...

Communication Strategy and Isolation

István Hegedűs made a presentation entitled The European Union and Hungary at the seminar of SZEMA –...