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2026-07-30

Great powers and the Western Balkans

Study
2026-07-20

Why State-Sponsored Disinformation Can Fail?

Lessons from the collapse of Orbán’s informational autocracy
2026-06-18

Losing an illiberal ally: Hungary’s new foreign policy towards the Western Balkans

Study
2026-04-08

Fidesz's political myths have lost their appeal; many believe that Fidesz could rig the election

A brief insight into Political Capital's recent polling results
2025-12-01

From Dayton to Deadlock? Internal Challenges and International Actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research paper
2025-09-16

Surviving small-state existence in the Western Balkans

Agency, approaches, and strategies of navigating across third actors’ influence towards EU integration
2025-09-16

Instability in a Stabilitocracy – the Significance of the Protests in Serbia

Research paper
2025-09-10

Position paper: Resilient Neighbors - Addressing the Common Challenges to Democracy in WB and EaP Countries from a Civil Society Perspective

Analysis
2025-03-05

Discussion Paper: First Approach to Identifying the Common Challenges to Democracy in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership Countries

Analysis
2025-02-18

Cracks in the façade of Europe’s right-wing unity

Voting patterns, tactics and divisions among non-mainstream parties in the 10th European Parliament
2025-02-14

TRACE platform - Tracking and responding to antisemitism and antigypsyism in Central Europe

The TRACE project's page
2025-01-22

Hungary's EU presidency in review: remembered more for its unorthodoxy than its policy achievements

Hungarian EU Presidency Watch - final report
2025-01-14

Achievements overshadowed by diplomatic tensions – Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

Issue 8: A review of the period between 9 – 31 December

2024-12-11

The final act: new peace offensive, budget passed, Schengen to be extended – Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

A review of the period between 25 November – 8 December
2024-11-27

Proceedings against Hungary continue as Schengen deal nears for Bulgaria and Romania – Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

A review of the period between 11 – 24 November
2024-11-13

A Volatile Unity: Hungary’s Leadership Amid Geopolitical Shifts and EU Challenges – Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

A review of the period between 28 October – 10 November
2024-10-30

Gearing up for the big show amid a "peace mission" 2.0 and new levels of anti-EU rhetoric – Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

Issue 4 - A review of the period between 14-27 October
2024-10-16

In the shadow of the “Strasbourg Battle” - Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

Issue 3 A review of the period between 30 September – 13 October
2024-10-02

Prioritizing politics over policy? - Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

Issue 1-2: A review of the first three months, July – September 2024
2024-10-02

Hungarian EU Presidency Watch

Hungarian EU Presidency Watch
2024-09-26

Political Polarization in Modern Democracies – Origins, Dynamics, and Consequences

Keynote speech and Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Illiberal Challengers of Liberal Democracy in Europe

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

What Would Happen to the World if China Invaded Taiwan?

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Poland's Re-Democratization Experiment – a Blueprint for Hungary?

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Why Is Autocracy Thriving? – Interview with Anne Applebaum

Interview
2024-09-26

Political Leadership in the 21st Century: Populism, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship

Keynote speech and Panel discussion
2024-09-26

A New Global Gender Divide is Emerging? – Lecture by Alice Evans

Lecture
2024-09-26

What does it Take to Win? – Insights and Lessons from Russia's War in Ukraine

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Empowering Europe: Strengthening Democracy, Protecting Citizens from Authoritarian Influence, and Addressing External Economic and Political Challenges

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

The Relevance of Filter Bubbles in Polarized Countries

Lecture
2024-09-26

Keynote Speech by Ambassador David Pressman

Keynote Speech
2024-09-26

Navigating Central European Journalism: Unraveling the Current Landscape and Financial Dynamics

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

The Future of Europe in Light of the EU Enlargement: Challenges, Opportunities and Reforms

Keynote speech and panel discussion
2024-09-26

Democratic Russia – A utopia?

Lecture
2024-09-26

Foreign Policy Outlook Before the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy and Authoritarian Superpowers, Impact of Disinformation, Polarization and Tribalism

Presentation

2024-09-26

State of Liberalism in the Central Eastern European Context – After the European Parliament Elections

Panel discussion
2024-09-19

Conspiracy beliefs, receptivity to disinformation and factual relativism in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia

A preliminary survey report
2024-09-17

Growing influence of Russia and China in the new European Parliament?

An analysis of the votes of radical right, far-right and far-left parties on Russia and China in the European Parliament
2024-07-10

Trolling to weaken the EU while winking at Trump: the first week of Hungary's rotating EU presidency

Analysis
2024-06-17

Mapping Hungarian Influence in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Study
2024-05-23

MEPs from Central Europe: A bulwark against authoritarianism

Study
2023-12-30

The 'Eurosceptic Internationale' at the gates of Brussels? Populist alliance-building across the EU and Hungary's role in it

Study
2023-12-20

Media hegemony and exporting disinformation across the border

The Orbán regime’s influence on Hungarian minorities’ public discourses in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine
2023-12-18

Political Capital in 2023

Annual summary
2023-12-13

Ideas on Democracy in the Western Balkans

Policy brief
2023-07-11

NATO Public Forum 2023

NATO Public Forum 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023-06-30

Seizing an Unparalleled Opportunity to Meet EU Strategic Objectives - The Case for Cities' Increased Direct Access to EU Funding

Study
2023-04-21

Disinformation wonderland in the Hungarian government-controlled online media: Origo's articles on Putin and Zelensky

Media analysis
2023-04-13

Subtle messaging that could be followed up with a tougher one - 5 points on US sanction designations

Analysis
2023-03-01

BOND - Building tolerance, understanding and dialogue across communities

The BOND project's page
2023-02-24

Europe: no signs of fatigue in the support for Ukraine

Flash Report
2022-12-19

Punching above its weight? - The building of Hungarian political influence

Aims, instruments, actors, results
2022-12-05

Half of Fidesz voters believe government did not vote for sanctions

Summary of research regarding attitudes about Russia-Ukraine war
2022-10-13

5 points about Viktor Orbán's visit to Germany

Analysis
2022-10-10

Europe’s slow awakening – The societal and political results of the recent crises

Summary of Political Capital's study
2022-07-22

Anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary: evolution, actors, networks

In our research, we investigated the mobilisation's driving forces, evolution, domestic actors and their international connections
2022-07-13

Tell me who you vote for, I’ll tell you what you think of America

Political Capital's study
2022-06-30

The anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary and Poland

Similar tendencies and significant differences can be observed in Hungary and Poland at the same time.
2022-03-10

The voice of the Kremlin dominated Hungarian social media until the outbreak of the war against Ukraine

Political Capital's study
2022-02-02

Five points on the 11th (or, taking 2009 into account, the 12th) Orbán-Putin meeting

Analysis
2021-10-14

The European Parliament’s left-wing cannot let the Cuban regime go

Flash Report
2021-10-08

Slower decisions but more diverse politics in Germany after the elections

Interview with András Hettyey
2021-09-24

Budapest Forum (16-17/09/2021)

On September 16-17, 2021, Budapest Municipality, Political Capital, and CEU Democracy Institute held the inaugural Budapest Forum for Building Sustainable Democracies, intending to establish a new annual event.
2021-09-20

Disinformation Resilience Index 2021

Analysis

2021-08-03

Globsec Trends 2021

Research report
2021-07-14

The Specter of Authoritarian Regimes is Haunting Europe

Summary

2021-07-06

"The first step should be the termination of the Paks contract."

Interview
2021-06-29

"The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy had common Foreign-, Defense- and Finance Ministries. It is frustrating that European integration is not there yet 150 years later."

Interview
2021-06-24

"The precondition of a common EU foreign policy is that each European citizen could identify themselves with it."

Interview
2021-06-18

Foreign policy ideas of the opposition prime ministerial candidates

Interview
2021-06-09

"Today, not a single EU member state can represent its interests alone”

Interview
2021-06-04

“Huawei is such a large national security threat that is simply not offset by the low price of its 5G network”

Interview
2021-06-02

“I would make the EU and Hungary stronger on the global scene”

Interview
2021-02-26

The European Parliament would strike against Putin, but some member states remain reluctant

Political Capital's Flash Report
2021-01-27

The EU-China trade agreement is ‘unacceptable’ in its current form

Interview with Attila Ara-Kovács
2020-12-14

Main narratives about COVID-19 in the V4 countries during the first wave of the pandemic

Political Capital's research
2020-09-29

Foreign Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans

Research on the nature and the degree of authoritarian influence in the Western Balkan region
2020-09-03

Authoritarian shadows in the European Union

Influence of authoritarian third countries on EU institutions
2020-04-08

Quarantine podcasts, Bologna Edition – a discussion with Erik Jones on Italian and EU politics

A podcast about the political and economic situation in Italy, policy responses to the corona crisis, the future of the European integration. Guest: Erik Jones
2020-02-11

Eastern Europe Goes South?

Central Eastern Europe and the integration of the Western Balkans - Public conference in Budapest - summary
2020-01-17

63% of MEPs sitting in the EPP voted against Orbán and Kaczyński

The EP decided on 16 January to advocate for further consultations and measures concerning breaches to the rule of law and stated that in the past period the situation only deteriorated in Hungary and Poland.
2019-12-04

Doors Wide Shut

Russian, Chinese and Turkish authoritarian influence in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
2019-11-08

Erdogan’s visit to Budapest: another symbolic meeting

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Budapest on 7 November.
2019-10-30

Orbán-Putin meeting: lots of symbolism, no major development

Flash Report

2019-10-15

Decisions on electoral interference EP: bad and good news for Russia

On 10 October, the European Parliament approved a resolution condemning foreign electoral interference and disinformation in democratic processes with a vast majority. The result of the vote on text, similarly to previous cases, shows that the Kremlin has nowhere near enough friends in the EP to inf
2019-07-18

Why were Georgians protesting in Tbilisi?

Interview with Tamar Kintsurashvili
2019-05-27

Fidesz’s EP election dreams did not come true

Flash report on the EP elections
2019-04-10

Collusion or Homegrown Collaboration?

A study on the connections between German Far Right and Russia
2019-03-13

Five points on Manfred Weber’s visit to Budapest

Political Capital's flash analysis on the visit of the European People’s Party lead candidate to Budapest on 12 March
2019-03-13

The Russian International Investment Bank is moving to Budapest

The Hungarian National Assembly approved the law on the International Investment Bank’s move to Budapest on 5 March 2019.
2019-02-12

Five points on Mike Pompeo's visit to Budapest

Political Capital's flash analysis
2019-01-16

Five points on the failed Brexit deal

Political Capital's flash analysis
2018-09-19

Orbán showcased himself as a mediator between the East and the West in his meeting with Putin in Moscow

Political Capital's Flash Report
2018-09-13

The approval of the Sargentini report: the beginning of the end for Orbán in the European People’s Party? - Flash Report

Political Capital's Flash Report
2018-06-05

Illiberalism in the V4: Pressure points and bright spots

A comparative study on the democratic backsliding in the Visegrád countries
2018-05-08

The V4 and the future of the EU

In the frames of the project EurActiv Slovakia, EurActiv Czech Republic, EurActiv Poland and Political Capital produce analyses on the most important issues affecting the Visegrád Group.
2018-03-22

The Belt and Road Initiative: Visegrad Four’s Chinese dilemma

China has used the international economic crisis to elbow its way towards a dominant position on the global market.
2017-11-20

Political Capital launched a project under the Europe for Citizens Programme

A project for debating euroscepticism in Hungary
2017-11-20

Exit, Voice or Loyalty?

Young people on Europe and democracy. Case studies from AT, CZ, DE, HU, PL and SK
2017-11-08

The future of Visegrád in the shadow of illiberalism and the EU’s macropolitical environment

A study by Political Capital.
2017-07-05

The Future of Europe - Comparing public and elite attitudes

Chatham House’s research paper The Future of Europe: Comparing Public and Elite Attitudes examines the crucial divergence in attitudes towards European integration between the general public and an 'elite' group of leaders from business, civil society, journalists and elected officials.
2017-04-11

Vulnerability Index

How vulnerable are the Visegrad four societies to subversive foreign influence?
2016-09-19

Public and governmental approaches towards TTIP in the V4 countries

The purpose of this study is to analyse the stance of civic and political actors in the Visegrád countries on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
2016-02-19

What the V4 is not unified in: the relationship with Russia

The Prague summit of the leaders of the Visegrad countries on 15 February and the meeting of the European Council on the 18-19 put the coordinated stance of the V4-group into the spotlight again.
2016-02-08

Focus on Hungary: Refugees, Asylum and Migration

Study on the Orbán Government’s rhetoric and policy measures with regard to refugee, asylum and migration issues
2015-12-22

The Kremlin connections of the European far-right

Political Capital Institute has decided to launch a series of publications in order to analyze the pro-Russian standpoint and behavior of far-right actors in various member states more deeply. The first four elements of the series deal with Hungary, Slovakia, France and Greece.
2015-04-14

"I am Eurasian" - The Kremlin connections of the Hungarian far-right

Political Capital's study on Kremlin's connections to the Hungarian far-right.
2015-02-04

Chancellor Merkel’s visit in Budapest: The Great PR Hoax

From a diplomatic aspect, the joint press conference by the German chancellor and the Hungarian prime minister revealed some disagreements.
2014-05-27

The EU will survive

An analysis on the outcomes of the European Parliamentary elections.
2014-03-14

The Russian Connection

An analysis on the spread of pro-Russian policies on the European far right
2011-11-22

MOL in Croatia – Lull before the storm

The Croatian government failed to put legal controls on the Hungarian Company’s business share, which means that it will leave the resolution of the problem to the incoming administration.
2011-01-25

Hard times for EU Presidency = hard times for EU

Hungary has prepared for the EU Presidency diligently and succeeded in putting its own topics on the agenda, such as the European Roma Strategy. No one had expected it to be a light run.
2010-12-13

Wine and Whine: The budding fruits of Hungary’s EU Presidency

As Hungary packs up its Bermuda shorts for a six-month stay at the Brussels beach, it might be fair to ask: What exactly do we expect to get out of this?
2010-07-20

Hungarian-Slovak Network to Reset Political Dialogue

Political analysts, researchers and members of civil organisations in Slovakia and Hungary have created an open network to stimulate dialogue on issues that affect the entire Visegrad region.
2010-03-03

The impact of the Greek crisis on Hungary

Hungary, which was close to bankruptcy at the end of 2008, made brutal spending cuts. The Greek government meanwhile responded to the crisis with lavishly spending money that it did not have.
2009-10-26

The Suez affair in Hungary: Fidesz and the foreign investors

The decision of the Fidesz-led municipal government to unilaterally terminate a contract with French Suez Environnement, minority owner of the municipal water works in Pécs raise political risks.
2009-06-16

Unstability Follows EP Elections in Hungary

Major conflicts are ahead, and the government's fate hinges on the tax bill vote in Parliament.

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