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Lecture III. – Małgorzata Bonikowska

One of our special guest is Małgorzata Bonikowska. Dr. Bonikowska will speak on Saturday (1st September) at 9:30.

Centre for International Relations /THINKTANK centre for dialogue and analysis

Political scientist and EU expert, President of Centre for International Relations (www.csm.org.pl) – a leading Polish independent think tank in foreign affairs – as well as a co-founder of the THINKTANK centre for dialogue and analysis (www.mttp.pl). She specializes in European studies and international affairs.

Graduated from University of Warsaw (Italian studies), University of Paris Sorbonne (history and political studies) and Polish Academy of Performing Arts (history of culture), she finished two Ph.D. programmes in Poland and abroad as well as attended specialisation studies at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at the Columbia University in New York, within the Fulbright Program.

Between the years 1995-1998, she was editor in the Polish Public Television,than moved the Polish Ministry of European Integration (UKIE) as director of the European Information Centre. In 2001-2007, she was working for the European Commission, chairing the EC’s Information and Communication Program, first in Poland and then in Bulgaria. In 2007, she was responsible for launching a government’s Human Resources Development Centre (CRZL)under the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies.

In the same time, Dr Bonikowska has been continuing academic career as a lecturer and researcher, tutor of MA and BA thesis, as well as a government advisor. She is an author of over a hundred publications.

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Lecture II. by Kai-Olaf Lang

There will be another interesting lecture at our summer seminar held by Kai-Olaf Lang on Friday (31st August 2018; 11.00-12.00).

Kai-Olaf Lang is a researcher (Senior Fellow) at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) [Foundation for Science and Politics], Berlin. He is an expert on the foreign and security policies of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

We are looking forward to Professor Lang’s analysis about the CEE region!

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TCPA Summer Seminar – Keynote speaker

Our keynote speaker will be Géza Jeszenszky this year.

He will start his lecture on Friday (31st August) at 9:30, but as we hope he is joining us on Thursday evening. It will be very interesting for all of us!

Mr Jeszenszky (Budapest, 1941), is D. Phil.,historian, graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 1976 to 2011, he taught at what is today Corvinus University of Budapest. Was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at U.C. Santa Barbara in 1984-86. Taught the history of international relations and of Central Europe at numerous other universities in the U.S. and Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Hungary in thefirst non Communist government (1990–94), Ambassador to the United States of America in 1998–2002, and in 2011-2014 to Norway and Iceland. He is the author of numerous publicationson history and foreign policy, his latest book in English is Post-Communist Europe and Its National/Ethnic Problems (Budapest, 2009).

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INVITATION (Summer Seminar, Tihany-Balatonfüred)

We would like to inform you that the Tihany Center and its team are going to organise its annual seminar in Balatonfüred (Tihany) again. This year’s topic is the following: Political parties, tendencies and challenges in Europe in the 21st century
Here are the most important information:
Proposed date: 30 August – 2 September, 2018

Location: Balatonfüred, Hungary

Number of participants: 35-40

Invited speakers: Géza Jeszenszky, former minister of foreign affairs (Hungary); Gábor Szentiványi, former ambassador of the Republic of Hungary; Małgorzata Bonikowska, political scientist, director of the Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych and the THINKTANK (Poland); Kai-Olaf Lang, SWP (Germany), senior fellow (TBC); Mikolaj Pisarski, KoLiber (Poland), president (TBC); Stephan Ozsváth, journalist (Austria) (TBC)

Detailed program: coming soon
Link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScceiaz2ToEnRLOjUt2UUGTWmr4IOQF- ZZhGhxq14qXG2fk_A/viewform?fbzx=3342757448288229000
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/432205687241118/

Link: http://www.tihanypolitics.eu/en/

Requirements of participation: Registration, creating an essay in connection with the main topic, active participation during the seminar

Fees: All expenses (accommodation, food,) during your stay at the Lake Balaton are covered by the TCPA, if you fulfilled the requirements. That means you only have to pay for your travel costs.

Best regards,
György Odze

TCPA director

Registration

If you are interested in our programme, feel free to pre-register in the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScceiaz2ToEnRLOjUt2UUGTWmr4IOQF-ZZhGhxq14qXG2fk_A/viewform

We hope we will see you soon at the Lake Balaton! 😉

Migration crisis in Europe

On 24 August we had an exciting seminar with a group of ISHA visitors in Balatonfüred. Although I intended to provide opportunity for a discussion rather than a long lecture the participation was much above my anticipation. Of course we could not solve the problem and the days after our meeting show that the crisis can be even deeper and deeper. The question is what happens now?