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Local Elections 2019: Where Are We Heading?
What do the municipal election results portend for the future?
The recent Hungarian municipal elections had some surprising results. Although Fidesz managed to secure a victory, it lost significant positions in major cities, including the capital itself. The arising questions the panel discussion will aim to answer:
Do results indicate the end of an era as well the beginning of a new era? How will Fidesz react to the new status quo? Can the newly elected heterogeneous alliance, comprised of six political parties, set aside their differences and work together in a way they keep their supporters? What does this portend for the next election? Will the six party formula work in the general election at 2022?
Panelists of the event:
Boris Kálnoky, Correspondent of Die Welt Balázs Orbán, Parliamentary and Strategic Secretary of State, Prime Minister's Office Zoltán Pogátsa, Editor in Chief of Új Egyenlőség
The discussion will be moderated by Árpád Csabuda, Founder of PaIR Club at International Business School and intern at the DI.
Respondent of the discussion:
Mark Higgie, Senior Fellow at Danube Institute
TIME: November 25, 17:00. Registration starts at 16:30
VENUE: Danube Institute, Budapest, Eötvös utca 24.
Registration is required. Please register via the RSVP link.
The event will be videorecorded and the film will be put on our website. By participating, you agree to the use of your image in the film.
Policy Experts Debate Causes of 2008 Financial Crisis
Policy Experts Debate Causes of 2008 Financial Crisis
Governments as well as banks were to blame for the crisis which rocked the international financial system in 2008
2013-11-15 13:36:00
2013-11-15 13:36:00
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The causes, cures and consequences of the 2008 financial crisis was the subject of a major international conference in Budapest on Friday 15th November – the first major event staged by the Danube Institute.
Among those attending the conference at the Károlyi-Csekonics Rezidencia were senior advisers to the Hungarian government, diplomats, academics, and business leaders.
Speakers included the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont and the former Italian foreign minister and economist Antonio Martino as well as the American economist Peter Wallison, Counsel to the President in the Reagen Administration and co-chairman of the official US inquiry into the causes of the crisis, and Péter Ákos Bod, a former Governor of the Hungarian Central Bank.
The conference, entitled: The Financial Crisis of 2008: Causes, Consequences, Cures, which received extensive media coverage, focused on the social and cultural impact of the crisis, as well as its economic consequences.
While there was a considerable divergence of opinion on the causes of the crisis there was general agreement that blame for it could not be levelled exclusively at the banks. Governments, such as that of the US which fuelled an unsustainable housing boom through affordable housing polices, also came under fire, as did the ECB for imposing an interest rate regime which produced similar results in several EU member states.
Hungary’s former Central Bank Governor Bod was broadly optimistic about the EU’s economic future and the future of the euro, while Antonio Martino, the former Italian foreign minister and a distinguished monetarist economist argued that the euro was unsustainable in its present form and that the political future of the European Union was deeply uncertain.
Please click here to download the programme of the conference.
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Should Governments Spy on their Friends?
Should Governments Spy on their Friends?
Modern surveillance methods reveal patterns of human behaviour that can frustrate terrorist plots and save lives.
2013-11-06 13:43:00
2013-11-06 13:43:00
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How far governments should go in using modern technology to spy on other states, even upon those which they regard as close Allies, a subject of huge contemporary interest, was the topic of Electronic Eavesdropping and Diplomacy, a lecture by Charles Crawford, a former senior British diplomat at the Danube Institute on Tuesday 5th November. Crawford who was British Ambassador to Poland from 2003-2007 argued that technical advances in surveillance methods enabled governments to establish patterns of human behavior which were a vital tool in combatting international terrorism. It was clear that those governments and politicians which had criticized the US government for spying on the political leaders of friendly states were themselves using such methods. Moreover while counter measures might be devised to frustrate surveillance, it was unlikely that these would be wholly successful, or that governments would cease to use methods that were necessary to protect public safety. /img/1/l1.jpg
Full House for Film on Soviet Nightmare
Full House for Film on Soviet Nightmare
Personal tragedies demonstrate the consequences of the doomed attempt to reshape human nature.
2013-10-25 13:44:00
2013-10-25 13:44:00
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More than 100 guests attended the Puskin Mozi on 24th October for first public showing of Age of Delirium, a documentary film by David Satter which tells the story of the fall of the Soviet Union as lived and experienced by ordinary Soviet people. After the screening the film-maker discussed the film and his experiences as a Moscow news correspondent during the final days of the Soviet Union. The film which won the Van Gogh Grand Jury Prize at the was based on Satter’s book, Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union. /img/1/l1.jpg
No Joking Matter
No Joking Matter
The once popular political jokes simply can’t survive the transition from communism to capitalism.
2013-11-08 13:43:00
2013-11-08 13:43:00
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Did the political joke die with the collapse of communism? According to the British sociologist Christie Davies, an international authority on the roots of humour of all kinds, that is precisely what happened. In a stimulating lecture at which was full of insights into some overlooked aspects of the transition from communism to capitalism jokes are simply not as at home in conditions of freedom and competing ideologies as in authoritarian societies. Professor Davies lecture’s was delivered at ELTE University, Budapest on 7th November. /img/1/l1.jpg 1 4 |
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