Events - Democracy and Political Development

High expectation for Germany - The Council Presidency at a Pivotal Moment for the EU

On July 1, 2020, Germany took over the EU Council Presidency.

Új Egyenlőség magazine in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest organize the next event of public discussions (Közbeszélgetések) which…

Join us for our debate (start: 3 pm, 6 July) on the effects of the pandemic and the lockdown on media landscape and press freedom in nine countries…

At the online event we will exchange ideas on how the coronavirus epidemic and the ensuing economic crisis have affected unconditional basic income…

On 29 June at 17:00 the results of the research “Inequalities during the coronavirus in Hungary” will be presented. The representative survey is…

The coronavirus will inevitably change Europe, the history of the world and its political system. The question is whether the epidemic will change it…

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest and the Új Egyenlőség magazine organize their next joint event of public discussions (Közbeszélgetések) - “Human…

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Policy Solutions would like to invite to the online presentation of our joint publication “System Change 30 – The…

Does the Corona Virus pandemic make us reconsider things? Did we go wrong somewhere? Will it make us change things after it is all over in politics,…

A short report was published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on the effects of COVID-19 on the political press market in Hungary.

Now the government is using the alibi of the virus to go even further in increasing the vulnerability of the employees.

Hundreds of thousands of…

The topic of the joint publication of the FES and Policy Solutions and the online event was, what Hungarian society thinks about the last ten years of…

Friedrich Ebert Foundation continued online its talks on the economic and health consequences of the coronavirus epidemic. #FESBPgoesonline

The presentation of Policy Solution’s latest edition to their series of yearbooks “Hungarian politics in 2019” drew a large and distinguished…

The result of the local elections was a big surprise, no one expected such a good performance from the opposition alliances in Budapest and in other…

The room was bursting at the seams when the results of the local elections were discussed at our joint event organized with Political Capital. At a…

Is there a successful environmental movement in Europe and what is its relationship to traditional political ideologies and groups? On September 10,…

Five years after the annexation of Crimean and the outbreak of an armed conflict in the Donbas region, there is apparently no sign of change in the…

4. April 2019 marked the 70th anniversary of NATO. The joint event of FES-Budapest and CEU-CENS titled "NATO @ 70: The Road Ahead" revolved around…

The yearbook "Hungarian Politics" is a joint annual review published by the think tank Policy Solutions and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung since 2014. The…

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the important social theorist and eponym of Marxism. With his societal studies and theory…

What does the value system of Hungarian society look like? This was the center point of the conference organized by the Policy Solutions Political…

It often seems as if in Hungary the reality experienced by women hardly coincides with the public discourse on the situation of women in society.…

At the Hungarian parliamentary election on 8 April 2018 , the governing parties unexpectedly secured a third consecutive parliamentary two-thirds…

"The Hungarian Far Right - Social Demand, Political Supply, and International Context" is the first English-language book on right-wing extremism and…