2024 will be a crucial year: besides the European elections, Hungary will celebrate 20 years of EU membership and will also hold the EU’s rotating presidency from July 2024. Relying on the success of the previous European Café event series, we are relaunching it. We…

CEID is co-hosting an event about the Hungarian foreign policy decisions in cooperation with Political Capital and the CEU Democracy Institute. Since 2010 the Hungarian government has taken a more active international role, including in the Western Balkan. What economic interests shape Hungarian foreign policy…

Key experts of the CEID have been quite active recently. Our covered topics include the Russian agression in Ukraine and the connection between the Hungarian and Russian governments, the energy dependencies, V4 connectiona, European Union politics, including the deep analysis of the State of the...

In 2023 CEID is renewed its European Cafe series of discussions, which focuses on a selected expert discussions on the main dilemmas of Hungarian foreign policy. The discussions are not be open to the press. The aim of the programme is to bring together views…

Our External Research Fel low Dorka Takácsy represented CEID at a workshop titled “Development of Strategic Communication Skills: Lessons from Visegrad Four’s Experience” in Yerevan, Armenia. The workshop was held for Armenian public officers and civil society. In the panel discussion “Anti-EU/anti-Western Propaganda – Similarities Across Regional Boundaries” Dorka analyzed Anti-Western…

The poster child of Hungarian foreign policy:  how relations with Germany turned sour – A Summary Of Our European Café Event In 2023 CEID is renewed its European Cafe series of discussions, which focuses on a selected expert discussions on the main dilemmas of Hungarian…