Effects of elections in CEE countries on EU governance

Partner: Center for EU Enlargement Studies
Event date: Nov 30, 2015
Deadline for registering: Nov 30, 2015
Venue: Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u.9, Popper Room, 10.00 a.m.- 14.00 p.m., Hungary
Category: Conference

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest (FES) and the Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) at Central European University (CEU) are pleased to invite you to

The Effects of Elections in CEE Countries on EU Governance

November 30, 2015, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., CEU, Nador utca 9, Popper Room

Free and fair elections are a necessary condition of democracy. In EU member states, national elections can have effects beyond the realm of domestic politics, as the recent elections in Poland, or last year’s presidential elections in Romania suggest. More specifically, aspects of the functioning, identity and future of the EU represent points of debate in national elections, along with EU-wide issues such as migration, the refugee crisis or the rise of populism and extremism.

Program:

9.30 Registration

10.00 Introductory remarks, Professor Péter Balázs, Director of CENS

10.15 Panel I: Elections in East Central Europe: debating the main political participation act; country case studies

Speakers:

Claudiu Tufis, University of Bucharest, Romania

Daniel Smilov, Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria

Róbert László, Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Chair: Antónia Mészáros, journalist, ATV (TBC)

 11.30 Coffee break

 11.45 Panel II: The broader context of elections; effects on national, transnational and European current issues; comparative results

Speakers:

Pavol Babos, Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Mitja Žagar, Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Agnieszka Cianciara, European Studies Department, Institute of Political Studies Polish Academy of Sciences Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

Bogdan Radu, Zselyke Tofalvi, CENS, Central European University

Chair: Antónia Mészáros, journalist, ATV (TBC)

 13.15 Concluding remarks, Bogdan Radu, CENS, Central European University

 13.15 Lunch

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Keywords: EU, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Europe, Migration