Dear Sir or Madam,

We are pleased to invite you to the next event of our European Café series, focusing on the dilemma of joining the eurozone.

We aim at analyzing the potential benefits and risks of adopting the euro, especially in the light of the European Commission’s latest “unrefusable offer” to hesitant non-eurozone countries. With our high-level speakers, we will to examine the experiences of the Baltic countries and explore the political and economic pros and cons in Poland and Hungary.

Our guests are:

Mr. István Újhelyi, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialist and Democrats

Mr. Aldis Austers, Senior Researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, former Brussels Coordinator of Latvia’s EU Accession negotiations

Mr. Marcin Zaborowski, Senior Associate of the Visegrad Insight

The event will be moderated by: Ms. Edit Inotai, Senior Fellow, CEID

The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID) has launched a series of discussions on current European issues, supported by Erste Stiftung and the National Cooperation Fund (NEA).
We aim to discuss vital challenges of the European integration from a Hungarian perspective. Our purpose is to organize constructive and open debates about our common European future by inviting politicians and experts from and beyond Hungary.

The event will be in English and Hungarian, simultaneous interpretation is provided.

We would be delighted if you could accept our invitation. Since seats are limited, we would urge you to register. In case of questions related to this event, please contact our colleague Ms. Noémi Matis at noemi.matis@ceid.hu.

Yours sincerely,

Dániel Bartha

Executive Director, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

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