Mark your calendar and join us, Political Capital, and our journal, Review of Democracy, for this panel discussion!

🗓️ July 1, 4pm CET
📍 Online on YouTube

🗣️ Laszlo Bruszt
🗣️ Peter Kreko
🗣️ Thu Nguyen
🗣️ Claudio M Radaelli
🗣️ Flora Garamvolgyi

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🎙️ In our latest podcast, Gergő Medve-Bálint discusses the achievements and shortcomings of Hungary’s EU membership. 🇭🇺🇪🇺

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🗣️🗞️ Our Director Laszlo Bruszt talked about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his latest challenger Peter Magyar in Le Temps.

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🔜 Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for this lecture by Jan Rybak, co-organized by Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium, CEU Jewish Studies Program, Tom Lantos Institute & us!

⏰ June 25, 4pm
📍 Budapest/online

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🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us tomorrow for this speech by David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, followed by a discussion.

⏰ June 24, 10am
📍 Budapest

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🎙️ In the latest episode of the series co-produced with Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Tali Nates, our Research Affiliate Peto Andrea, Bjorn Krondorfer and Steven Carr talk to Oleksandra Matviichuk, the head of Nobel Peace Prize winner Center for Civil Liberties.

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👥 The workshop, organized by our Inequalities and Democracy Working Group and its lead researcher Andrea Krizsan together with Conny Roggeband, focused on gender-based violence and autocratization.

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✍️ In our latest Working Paper, Adrienn Gyory, PhD, Kerem Gabriel Öktem and Szikra Dorottya explore the differing pathways of four autocratizing regimes with a similar familialistic outlook: #Russia , #Turkey , #Hungary , and #Poland .

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Mark your calendar for this panel discussion!

🗣️ David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur
🗣️ Fernanda G. Nicola
🗣️ Miklos Ligeti
🗣️ Andras Kadar
🗣️ Bea Bodrogi
🗣️ Dimitry Kochenov
🗣️ Barbara Grabowska-Moroz

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🗣️🗞️ Our Senior Research Fellow Zsolt Enyedi talked about new Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar to NZZ.

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➡️ In her recent AUTHLIB Working Paper, Szikra Dorottya explored how illiberal parties in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland impacted social policies when in power.

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✍️🇪🇺🗳️ After the #EUelections , authoritarian regimes will have more entry points to influence EU decision-making, our Research Affiliate Peter Kreko and Richard Demeny write in euronews.

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✍️ Universities founded on platforms of the global ultra-right seek to capture the space of the university as a modern institutional form but fill it with their ideological warfare, Jo-Anne Dillabough and Peto Andrea write in UniversityWorldNews.

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🗣️📺 Zsuzsanna Szelenyi Program Director of the CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy was interviewed on television channel ARTE in English about the latest political developments in Hungary.

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🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with Eva Fodor, Erika Kispeter and Andrea Krizsan!

⏰ June 17, 1:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13.

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✍️ “Paradoxically, the 2024 #EUelections might go down in history as shaping national politics more than the Union’s future direction,” Alberto Alemanno writes in his op-ed. 🇪🇺

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✍️ The study by our Research Assistant Franziska Wagner and Senior Research Fellow Zsolt Enyedi in Frontiers in Political Science challenges the notion that right-wing authoritarian politics rely solely on “politics of fear.”

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🎙️ In our latest #podcast , hosted by Kristof Szombati, Ho-fung Hung offers novel insights into the difficulties #China ’s political leadership is encountering in challenging US hegemony and extending its global sphere of influence.

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🗣️📺 'Hungary does not have a government but a criminal organization,' our Senior Research Fellow Balint Magyar told N1 Hrvatska television in a report about the Hungarian political situation.

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