Budapest Security Conference – Event Summary Keynote Speeches A new world order is currently being established, and Hungary should be on the winning side – started Mr. Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary. Thus, we need to adapt to the new political, economic...
Migration, as approached from four different angles by the four panelists, unveiled a broad spectrum of opinions and perspectives which contributed to an unbiased and thorough interpretation of the current situation. A new migration regime According to Mr. Michael Spindelegger, Director General of the Vienna-based International Center...
On the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Visegrad Cooperation in 1991, Mr. Géza Jeszenszky, foreign minister in the first democratically elected Hungarian government headed by József Antall, discussed his views on the past and future of V4 with Mr. Dániel Bartha, executive director...
On February 25th CEID organized the Budapest Security Conference with the support of the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the International Visegrad Fund (IVF) in partnership with the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), and the...
The Think Visegrad think-tank network prepared the review of the first half of the Czech V4 presidency and suggested key recommendations for the remaining time of the presidency. The assessment is based on the Presidency’s own priorities, but also on the overall context in which...
The aim of this paper is to provide readers with an overview of contemporary NATO-Russia relations before the Warsaw Summit, and to make recommendations for the upcoming meeting. INTRODUCTION Nearly two years have passed since Russia occupied and forcibly annexed the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, and...
On January 7th CEID organized the 7th Euro-Atlantic Café with the support of the US Embassy and the Pallas Athéné Geopolitical Foundation (PAGEO). The panelists were Ms.Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Mr....
Can Media Influence Foreign Policy? On December 15th CEID organized the 6th Euro-Atlantic Café with the support of the US Embassy and the Pallas Athéné Geopolitical Foundation (PAGEO). The panelists were Ms. Nicole Tung, awatd-winning photographer and free-lance war correspondent, and Mr. Bálint Szlankó, free-lance war...
On 4th December, 2015 CEID organised our 5th Euro-Atlantic Café with General John Allen , Senior Fellow of the The Brookings Institution and Mr. Péter Siklósi from Ministry of Defence of Hungary, organised in cooperation with the Slovak Atlantic Commission and supported by the US...
The days are gone when a major international newspaper was unthinkable without a network of foreign correspondents. Wise middle aged men were sitting around in smoky offices exchanging political rumors, meeting influential insiders behind closed doors, and pretending to be as secretive as possible about...