Events

Event report - “Slovenia: 25 years, achievements and new challenges”

November 25, 2015

On 23 November CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and CEU Rectorate hosted its third Ambassadorial Lecture in this academic year. It was given by H.E. Ms. Ksenija Škrilec, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to Hungary, on “Slovenia: 25 years, achievements and new challenges”. The address was chaired by Péter Balázs, Director of CENS and former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

After ten years “CENS still makes sense,” says Director Péter Balázs

November 8, 2015

Founded by Professor Péter Balázs in 2005, the Center for EU Enlargement Studies at the Central European University celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015. On October 26, 2015, colleagues and partners joined together to celebrate the first decade and to hear about CENS’s plans for the upcoming years.

Event report - “Serbia and Montenegro: A Step Closer to Reaching EU Accession?”

May 27, 2015

CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Institute of World Economics, Centre of Economic and Regional Studies (IWE CERS) hosted an international conference on 18 May 2015 entitled “Serbia and Montenegro: A Step Closer to Reaching EU Accession?”.

Challenges of V4 Democracy Assistance - Event report

May 24, 2015

Visegrad countries should support Ukraine’s civil society financially and with their transition expertise, according to speakers at a roundtable discussion organized by CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) on May 14 as part of the Frontiers of Democracy series. The Visegrad countries, known as the V4, include the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, have not shown a united front toward the situation in Ukraine in recent months.

"Only Developed Civil Society Can Drive Change" - Report on Belarus by Ales Bialiatski

May 24, 2015

“The fate of a civil activist is to be imprisoned in Belarus,” said Ales Bialiatski, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights, in his talk at CEU on May 11. Hosted by CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS), the event was part of the Frontiers of Democracy series.