CEU Democracy Institute

⏰ Deadline is coming! ⏰ Don’t miss your chance to apply to our unique leadership program. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 3 Details: 👉 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/DILA2025fall

✍️ “Can we make democracy survive when excessive capital and right-wing hegemony go hand-in-hand?,” @ceu PhD student Meera Bisht asks in a reflection on our Annual Conference. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/MrPo4FrK

🗣️📺 Citizenship is about “controlling a certain part of the global population,” @ProfKochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup argued in an @AJEnglish talk show. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/ZrPc81lk

💬🗞️ Chilean left should be viewed within a broader context, as it reflects the complex moment progressivism is facing across Latin America, our Post-doctoral Researcher @LisaZanottiPhD told @Estadao. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/7rPo97sv

✍️ "It seems that Hungary is host to two (or more) parallel realities when it comes to the war raging in Ukraine," our Research Assistant Peter Bori writes in an analysis for @demokraticky. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/OrPo2P5M

💬🗞️“The economic momentum that kept Orban in power (...) has come to an end,” and young Hungarians are tired of the "toxic system that thrives on generating conflict,” @ZSzelenyi, Program Director of our Leadership Academy told @LaVanguardia. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/mrPo0Gut

🗣️🎙️ “When they can no longer control developments through economic and communication tools, they resort to tightening, moving in a more autocratic direction,” our Research Affiliate @peterkreko said in a @444hu podcast about the Orban regime. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/TrPoMmPE

Are you a mid-career public leader from the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Croatia 🇭🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Poland 🇵🇱, Slovakia 🇸🇰, or Slovenia 🇸🇮? 💡 Apply now to our unique leadership program! Details: 👉 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/DILA2025fall

📣 Applications are open to the Context Program, our free, interdisciplinary initiative, open to university students in Hungary from any field of study. ⚠️ The program’s language is Hungarian! 🇭🇺 🗓️ Deadline: July 27 Details: 👉 cutt.ly/crIUMwjQ

📣 Applications are still open to our unique leadership training program 📣 The program is designed for mid-career public leaders from the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Croatia 🇭🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Poland 🇵🇱, Slovakia 🇸🇰, and Slovenia 🇸🇮. Details: 👉 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/DILA2025fall

💬🗞️ “In a system sustained by fear and loyalty, hope is the most dangerous factor of all," our Junior Visiting Researcher Balint Madlovics told @SeznamZpravy in an in-depth interview. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/frIULfHh

🔙👥✍️ @ceu PhD student @OrhanOlgen reflects on our Annual Conference, which analyzed excessive wealth concentration and democracy. Read it: 👉 cutt.ly/1rIUJQDL

🔙👥 Last month, our Democracy and History Workgroup hosted a workshop about the convergence of far-right and far-left. ✍️ Read a summary by Bence Bari: 👉 cutt.ly/irIUAgbI

💬🗞️ "We have been researching concentration of wealth and financial power and the links between private and public power, since the very start in the 90s," our Director Laszlo Bruszt told @BrusselsTimes in an article on our Annual Conference. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/OrIUT0ob

"The regime is in crisis. And in a crisis, no one controls events, not even an autocrat." 💬🗞️ In an interview with @hvg_hu, our Senior Visiting Researcher Janos Kis analyzed the current political situation in Hungary. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/1rIURKHJ

🗣️📺 Our Judit Szakacs talked about the @risj_oxford Digital News Report (where she wrote the Hungarian chapter) on RTL Hungary’s prime time news program. 🗞️ The report has received wide coverage in the Hungarian media. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/GrU1VJFP

✍️ "Russia’s war against Ukraine has served as a mutual legitimation platform for Orban and Putin and has fed ammunition to Orban’s illiberal machine," our Research Assistant Julia Szabo writes in @demokraticky. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/DrY9ROut

Are you committed to promoting democratic change? 🤔 💡 Our unique leadership program focuses on democratic governance and equips selected fellows with a wide range of strategic and leadership skills. Details: 👉 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/DILA2025fall

🔙🎙️ In our special podcast series, leading experts offered insights into 2024 as a seminal year for global democracy and its significance for the years ahead. 🎧 Check all the episodes here: 👉 tinyurl.com/yw483aaw

✍️📄 Democratic erosion leads opposition parties to run together in ideologically diverse coalitions and to incorporate social movement-like characteristics, our Post-doctoral Researcher Balint Mikola and @feligsantos argue in @democ_journal. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/drY9W54A