On 28 February 2013, the Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS), with the kind support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest, hosted the forth public lecture in the series called “The Seven Neighbors of Hungary- Questions of Historical Reconciliation and Cooperation in the 21st Century”. The aim of the project is to bring together diplomats and established experts with students and young researchers, as well as to launch a dialogue between the experts and representatives on one side, and local perceptions on the other. This lecture was delivered by H.E. Mr Gordan Radman Grlić, Croatian Ambassador to Hungary, to a distinguished group of diplomats, ambassadors, students and university professors.

During the lecture Ambassador Radman Grlić mainly focused on the positive examples of collaboration between Croatia and Hungary, discussing the questions of economic cooperation, transport, energy, tourism, as well as good political relations between the two countries. He also highlighted the fact that Croatia is in favor of the further EU enlargement, and that his country will support the rest of the Western Balkan states to join the Union in the future.

The event was chaired by Péter Balázs, Director of CENS and former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it was followed by a lively question and answer session touching upon a variety of issues.

The lecture was conducted under the Chatham House rules.