Date and time of the event: 24 November 2016 (Thursday), 10:00-12:00
Venue: Mercure Budapest Korona Hotel (Budapest, 1053, Kecskeméti u. 14.)
Programme:
10.00 – 10.15: Opening remarks
Jan Niklas Engels, Head of Office, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Budapest
10.15 – 10.45: Presentation: “The State of Populism in 2016” yearbook
Tamás Boros, Co-director, political analyst, Policy Solutions
10:45 – 12:00: Roundtable discussion. Populism in Hungary: trendsetter of trend follower?
Attila Juhász
Senior analyst, Political Capital
Júlia Lakatos
Head of international affairs, Centre for Fair Political Analysis
Gellért Rajcsányi
Editor-in-chief at Mandiner
12.00 – 12.30: Reception
The guests of the event will receive a free copy of our yearbook (in Hungarian).
The official languages of the conference are Hungarian and English. Translation will be provided.
Please register before 21 November 2016 at info@policysolutions.hu
We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.
Policy Solutions is a progressive political research institute based in Budapest. It was founded in 2008 and it is committed to the values of liberal democracy, solidarity, equal opportunity, sustainability and European integration. The focus of Policy Solutions’ work is on understanding political processes in Hungary and the European Union. Among the pre-eminent areas of our research are the investigation of how the quality of democracy evolves, the analysis of factors driving euroscepticism, populism and the far-right, and election research.
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