Events

Event Report: Visegrad’s Role in EU Foreign Policy and Global Strategy

April 22, 2016

The Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) of the Central European University organized the conference “Visegrad’s Role in EU Foreign Policy and Global Strategy” in cooperation with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on March 30, 2016. The conference served as the official launch of ECFR’s latest edition of the European Foreign Policy Scorecard, an annual assessment of the European Union’s external action published every year since 2011.

Embedding Democratic Values: The Role of Civic Education and Media in Democratization

April 1, 2016

The Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) held its workshop entitled “Embedding Democratic Values: The Role of Civic Education and Media in Democratization” on March 21, 2016, in Chisinau, Moldova.

Event report - "The War, the State and the Society in Current Ukraine: A View from Lithuania"

March 30, 2016

CEU’s Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Hungary hosted a public lecture “The War, the State and the Society in Current Ukraine: A View from Lithuania” on March 25, 2016. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Petras Vaitiekūnas, adviser to Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Border Anxiety: Is this the Europe we want?

March 1, 2016

The discussion entitled “Border Anxiety” was organized by the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS), Res Publica and Eurozine on February 19, 2016. Panelists from Poland and Hungary discussed different sources of anxiety concering the rise of physical and ideological borders across Europe and their relevance for the Visegrad Group (V4). The debate, chaired by Wojciech Przybyłski, editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight, centered on some of the key topics of the latest issue of the magazine that is published by Res Publica.

Effects of Elections in CEE Countries on EU Governance - Papers of a conference

January 7, 2016

On November 30, 2015, the Center for EU Enlargement Studies of the Central European University, with the support of the Budapest Büro of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, has organized an international conference dedicated to the role of elections in young democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. With this international conference, CENS aimed to create an opportunity for critical debate concerning elections in post-communist EU member states by discussing the significance of election results and their far-reaching consequences on EU governance.