Past events at the Institute for World Economics, Hungaria, May-June 2015

4 May 2015, Budapest

Ágnes Szunomár, senior researcher at IWE, contributed to the conference entitled “CEEC-China Cooperation and One Belt, One Road Construction”, organised by the Embassy of China to Hungary and the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

5-6 May 2015, University of Rwanda

Zsuzsánna Biedermann, senior researcher at IWE, contributed to the conference onRecent Trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa”. Her presentation had the title: “Rwanda: elements of a success story”.

7 May 2015, Budapest

Thursday workshops – regular monthly workshop at IWE

At the May workshop the topic of crisis management in France was treated by senior researcher at IWE, Miklós Somai (in Hungarian).

12 May 2015, Club Europe, Budapest

Impact of regional policies of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe

The speaker was prof. Gyula Horváth, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in Hungarian).

18 May 2015, Budapest

Tamás Novák and Tamás Szigetvári, senior researchers at IWE, contributed to the conference organised by the Central European University on the topic: “Serbia and Montenegro: A Step Closer to Reaching EU Accession?”

4 June 2015, Budapest

Thursday workshops – regular monthly workshop at IWE

At the June workshop senior researcher Péter Farkas held a presentation about the current situation of the world economy (in Hungarian).

5 June 2015, Glasgow

Senior researcher at IWE, Csaba Weiner held a presentation on “Assessing Post-Soviet Gas Import and Export Diversification” at the Seventh CRCEES Annual Research Forum. The organiser of this conference was the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies of the University of Glasgow.

5 June 2015, Luxembourg

TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conference, Panel on Juncker Plan with a contribution from András Inotai, research professor at IWE, member of the TEPSA Board.

7 June 2015, London

Senior researcher at IWE, Csaba Weiner held a presentation on “Breaking out from Dependency: The Booming of Post-Soviet Gas Import and Export Diversification?” at the Platform Ukraine Conference. This international event was organised by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University College London.

9-10 June 2015, Schloss Neuhardenberg bei Berlin

Seminar for “Young Leaders of Europe” organised by the Bertelsmann Foundation; the discussion on the “Eastern Partnership policy” of the EU was moderated by András Inotai, research professor at IWE.

15-16 June 2015, Graz

“Is Democracy in Europe still withstanding crises? The case of Hungary and Greece” – Presentation by András Inotai, research professor at IWE, on Hungary’s economic and political situation (in German).

18 June 2015, Club Europe, Budapest

Europe facing the challenge of migration (legal and humanitarian aspects by András Back, political aspects by Péter Balázs, economic aspects by András Inotai).

19 June 2015, Győr

Gábor Túry, researcher at IWE contributed to the IXth Conference of Young Regionalists in Győr, Hungary. His topic was “Structural impact of global presence of corporations – changing spatial production structures by the example of Volkswagen”.

30 June 2015, Budapest

Regular meeting with Ambassadors from Latin America to Hungary on selected issues, including the evaluation of EU-Latin America summit, EU migration challenges and Hungary’s “opening to the South”.

Key note speaker: András Inotai, research professor at IWE.

2 July 2015, Budapest

Thursday workshops – regular monthly workshop at IWE

The event has been dedicated to the topic “Recent developments of the EU’s external trade relations”, presented by senior researcher Sándor Meisel.