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🌍 How should Central and Eastern Europe adapt to the changing world economy? 📽 Watch our discussion w/ #ReThinkCEE fellow Jan Boguslawski, László Bruszt CEU Democracy Institute & Visnja Vukov Universität Wien, chaired by Zsuzsanna Vegh German Marshall Fund youtube.com/watch?v=2TNNvh…

🔹 How do we protect democracy from those who seek to dismantle it? 🔹 What happens when liberal tolerance is exploited? 📽 Watch how AUTHLIB researchers tackled these and many more questions at our workshop on safeguarding democracy at CEU Democracy Institute authlib.eu/normative-boun…

🔙👥 The Rooftop Seminar of our De- and De-Democratization Workgroup celebrated its 50th session with a presentation by Andres Moles on the legitimacy of private discrimination. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/yntz4fuv

✍️ "Viktor Orban’s industrial policy derisked foreign investment in lithium batteries. Instead of cementing his rule, it’s now tearing it apart," our Post-doctoral Researcher David Karas writes in his new newsletter, The Dirigiste. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/t7zcbnaf

Don’t forget to register NOW if you would like to attend this workshop! ⏰ Deadline: 12pm CET TODAY Details: 👉 cutt.ly/wrx5LfEy Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/Drx5LT5O

How does excessive wealth harm democracy? 💰 💡 This panel at our Annual Conference will explore the role of informal and illegal oligarchs. 🗣️Zarai Toledo 🗣️Marcelo Bergman 🗣️Erdem Yoruk 🗣️Carlos Meléndez (@eljorobado.bsky.social) Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/vn7ttypu

✍️🇭🇺 The restrictions "roll back protections of fundamental rights and impair the functioning of constitutional democracy," our Senior Research Fellow Renata Uitz writes about the new Hungarian “transparency bill” on Verfassungsblog. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/mt3772f5

Mark your calendar for the next seminar of our Inequalities and Democracy Workgroup! 🗣️ Magdalena Kocejko 🗣️ Lidia Balogh 🗓️ June 2, 1:30pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13 Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/35e7vtyu Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/bddzea5a

👨‍🏫👥 Our Senior Research Fellow Zsolt Enyedi discussed illiberal strategy and higher education, and the weakening of guarantees for academic freedom at a conference, covered by atlatszo.hu. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2dbjrmz2

Can hyper-wealth produce public goods?💰 💡This panel at our Annual Conference will discuss whether the hyper-rich can save the climate. 🗣️Benjamin Sovacool 🗣️Catriona McKinnon 🗣️Janos Pasztor 🗣️Stephen Stec Details: 👉tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv Registration: 👉tinyurl.com/vn7ttypu

Mark your calendar for this lecture, with online Hungarian and onsite sign language translation. 🗣️ Magdalena Kocejko 🗓️ June 4, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / online Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/ys2hajx5 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/2ehh6mm9

✍️ In the first part of his article, Daniel Hegedus recounts the background of the termination of US Government Assistance and its immediate financial consequences for the CSO sector in Central and Eastern Europe. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zfkzvfj

The School welcomed research fellows and faculty members for an eight-month residential fellowship programme. To conclude this programme, the School hosted a conference titled "Building Democratic Resilience and Economic Transformation in Africa." 🔖bit.ly/4mAQwcV

✍️ The “liberal world order” that promised freedom and equality has paradoxically become a source of suffering and marginalization for Muslims across the globe, our Global Forum Fellow Shafi Md Mostofa writes in E-International Relations. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2t72wb2d

✍️ In a commentary for UniversityWorldNews, Rebecka Lettevall, Annika Olsson and our Research Affiliate Peto Andrea 🇦🇹🇭🇺🇪🇺 argue for standing up for the "ordinary scholar," not only for the "extraordinary." Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/3cp9t449

✍️ In the second part of his article, Daniel Hegedus analyzes the impact of the termination of US Government Assistance on the implementer landscape and the indirect political implications in the CEE region. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/e3uzaye7

💡 This panel at our Annual Conference will explore how excessive wealth harms democracy. 💰 🗣️ Kati Cseres 🗣️ Peter Hagel 🗣️ Shakuntala Banaji 🗣️ Andrea Krizsan 🗣️ Andreas Schedler Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/vn7ttypu

🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for our next Rooftop Seminar! 🗓️ June 2, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13 🗣️ Yuko Sato 🗣️ Daniel Oross 🗣️ Carlos Meléndez (@eljorobado.bsky.social) Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/78yb83ph Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/jpknx875

🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with Magdalena Kocejko and Lidia Balogh! ⏰ June 2, 1:30pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13 Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/35e7vtyu Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/bddzea5a

✍️ Mexico is preparing for an unprecedented judicial election. Ana Micaela Alterio explores how a process framed as democratization could entrench power, undermine judicial independence, and usher in a new phase of autocratic legalism. 🇲🇽🧑‍⚖️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ytvtxm6d