Budapest Forum - 18-19 September 2024 - Summaries of Panels
The Budapest Forum, a major international conference organized by the Political Capital, the CEU Democracy Institute, and the Municipality of Budapest, returned for a fourth consecutive year in September 2024. Under the overarching theme of "The Year of Elections," the two-day conference, which brought together mayors, commissioners, MEPs, decision-makers, policy experts, academics, and grassroots activists and discussed the most pressing issues currently facing citizens of democratic and nominally democratic countries. The Forum is a markedly pro-democratic, anti-populist Central Eastern European platform, and seeks to examine policy proposals under the banner of ‘Building Sustainable Democracies’.
Our partners were: European Policiy Center, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Green European Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, National Endowment for Democracy, Taipei Representative Office in Budapest.
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Our pieces about the panels:
- Opening speeches and Welcome Speech by Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest
- Green Transition of the Capitals in Southeastern Europe
- Green Transition and 15-Minute Cities: A Path to Sustainable Urban Living – Lecture by Carlos Moreno
- Navigating Central European Journalism: Unraveling the Current Landscape and Financial Dynamics
- Keynote Speech by Ambassador David Pressman
- Foreign Policy Outlook Before the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
- The Relevance of Filter Bubbles in Polarized Countries – Lecture by Eli Pariser, Author of "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is
- Empowering Europe: Strengthening Democracy, Protecting Citizens from Authoritarian Influence, and Addressing External Economic and Political Challenges
- Democratic Russia – A utopia? – Lecture by Vladimir Milov
- What does it take to win? – Insights and Lessons from Russia's War in Ukraine
- Art in the Shadow of Power (In Hungarian)
- A New Global Gender Divide is Emerging? – Lecture by Alice Evans
- Political Leadership in the 21st Century: Populism, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship
- Why Is Autocracy Thriving? – Interview with Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian, Journalist
- Poland’s Re-Democratization Experiment – a Blueprint for Hungary?
- State of Liberalism in the Central Eastern European Context – After the European Parliament Elections
- Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy and Authoritarian Superpowers, Impact of Disinformation, Polarization and Tribalism – Presentation by Political Capital
- What would happen to the World if China Invaded Taiwan?
- The Future of Europe in Light of the EU Enlargement: Challenges, Opportunities and Reforms
- Illiberal Challengers of Liberal Democracy in Europe
- Political Polarization in Modern Democracies – Origins, Dynamics, and Consequences
