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Final results of the project “V4 - Backing the Advocacy Strategy for the European Integration of the Western Balkans”

January 9, 2017

CENS researcher Hana Semanić has participated in the project “V4 - Backing the Advocacy Strategy for the European Integration of the Western Balkans” whose goal is to develop the advocacy strategy for the Western Balkan countries, which would facilitate the EU enlargement towards this region and make it faster and more efficient.

'Flexible solidarity': The way out of the current impasse? - CENS researcher Zsuzsanna Végh for Visegrad Insight

December 21, 2016

The article titled "'Flexible solidarity' - Intergovernmentalism or differentiated integration: The way out of the current impasse" by CENS researcher Zsuzsanna Végh has been published by Visegrad Insight. The article discusses whether the concept of flexible or effective solidarity, put forth by the Slovak EU Presidency, can contribute to finding a way out of the stalemate around the issue of quotas as a potential solution to the refugee and migration crisis.

Read the article here.

 

Event report - "The Political Landscape in France on the Eve of the 2017 Presidential Election"

December 2, 2016

The CEU Center for European Neighbourhood Studies, in the framework of its Ambassadorial Lecture Series, hosted a public lecture on 29 November 2016 entitled “The Political Landscape in France on the Eve of the 2017 Presidential Election” delivered by H.E. Mr. Eric Fournier, French Ambassador to Hungary. The lecture was attended by a distinguished group of students, diplomats and academics.

Péter Balázs among 89 scholars asked about the future

December 1, 2016

The Strategic Foresight Group published its volume ‘Big Questions of Our Time – The World Speaks’, in which 89 scholars offered their views on how the world should be governed in the 21st century.

Please see Professor Péter Balázs, CENS Director's contribution by accessing this link:

http://strategicforesight.com/inner-articles.php?id=372#.WD-xDNJ961s

Cooperation between Germany and the V4

December 1, 2016

CENS researcher Zsuzsanna Végh participated in the conference titled "Germany and the Visegrad States: Potentials and Challenges of Cooperation" organized by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for its Eastern Europe Network of Fellows and Former Scholarship Holders on November 25-27, 2016, in Warsaw. The discussions centered on potential future areas of cooperation among the five countries, economic and social questions, as well as the future of security and defense cooperation in the European Union.

Please, find the program attached.