Enlargement
Kim Lane Scheppele, constitutional lawyer at Princeton University joined the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Europe Society on 24 January 2014.
Kim Lane Scheppele, constitutional lawyer at Princeton University joined the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Europe Society on 24 January 2014.
Gábor Iványi, head of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship talked about the relation of politics and church to members of the Hungarian Europe Society on 20 November 2013 at Central Bistro.
"The creation of a Europe-wide database of NGO-s supporting the development of European integration, as well as a database on private foundations and other sponsors ready to support them, would highly assist the activities and horizontal cooperation in this field. Partnerships might emerge among those organizations which are prepared and capable to work together for the future of Europe", suggested Györgyi Kocsis on a focus-group discussion organised by consultant firms at the Representation of the European Commission to Hungary on 16 November 2013.
On 13 November 2013, the Vice-President of the European Commission answered in details to the letter of four Hungarian NGO-s, including the Hungarian Europe Society, in which the civil organisations had criticised the procedure of the Hungarian media authority regarding the licensing of frequency to Klubrádió.
Tamás Boros, director of Policy Solutions made a presentation entitled "Which political group is going to win the European Parliament elections in 2014?" on 28 October 2013.
"Changing models of media authorities" - was the title of the public debate held on October 3rd in the House of the European Union by the Center for Independent Journalism and the Mérték Médiaelemző Műhely (a think tank for media research and analysis). The organisers invited the interested media professionals to discuss the ideal structure and functions of the media authority.
Ágnes Sebestyén - representing HES - participated in the event of VoteWatch Europe entiteld "MyVote2014.eu seminar: Using online tools to promote young voter participation in the 2014 European Parliament elections" to be held in Brussels on 18-19 September 2013.
Zoltán Gyenes, official at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission made a presentation entitled Hungary and the excessive deficit procedure to members of HES on 14 June 2013 in Brussels.
On 14 June 2013 Hungarian NGO-s completed their opinion on the recommendations of the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism (Frieberga Committee) as part of a public consultation initiated by the European Commission. HES was represented by Judit Bayer and István Hegedűs at the meetings of the civil organisations.
On 16 May 2013 István Hegedűs represented HES in an expert meeting in the Independent Journalism Centre in Budapest. The participants discussed the recommendations of the high-level group established by the European Commission on media freedom and pluralism.
On 5 May 2013 the Hungarian Europe Society joined the proposal of the Association of Hungarian Journalists to the Hungarian Prime Minister to nominate László Majtényi to the top position of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority.
In frame of the project 'Public Administration Reform in Visegrad Countries: Lessons Learned for Belarus and Ukraine' experts from Belarus were taking part on a study trip in Budapest between 21 and 25 April. The guests were visiting some Hungarian public administration organs and NGOs.
As a member of the international "Visa-free Europe Coalition", the Hungarian Europe Society, together with the Ukrainian NGO “Europe without Barriers” and the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies, was one of the organisers of the event entitled „EU Visa Policy: What Neighbors Could Do? Example of Hungary”; which took place on 8 April 2013 at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.
The Hungarian Europe Society, as the partner of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America, was once again the organiser of the study tour of US fellows in Budapest between 22 and 26 March 2013. The guests had professional and political meetings, including presentations by HES members. Györgyi Kocsis made an introductory lecture on the Hungarian political development, whilst István Hegedűs spoke about Hungary as a member state of the European Union, and Zsuzsanna Szelényi talked about the political concepts of Együtt 2014 Movement.
The joint position paper of the Hungarian Europe Society, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Eötvös Károly Public Policy Institute and the Standards (Mérték) Media Monitor on the state of the Hungarian media development has been mentioned in the report "A free and pluralistic media to sustain European democracy" presented by the High Level Group o
