CDI Hungary was honoured to host our first Christian Democratic Leaders’ Roundtable Luncheon in Vienna discussing the future of Christian Democracy in Europe.
The highly successful book The Curse of Popularity published jointly by CDI Hungary and CFR, has been the subject of several book launches.
The book was edited by Dr. Bernadett Petri and Dr. Kristóf Heil, with essays from Hungarian, Slovenian, Venezuelan, Italian, and German contributors. The various chapters in the book explore the nature and history of the phenomenon that has come to be known as populism.
The two editors have presented the book in the name of CDI Hungary with outstanding success in Hungary and abroad. Dr. Bernadett Petri participated in a conference organised by the Institute of Justice in Warsaw, where she had the opportunity to present the book.
Dr. Kristóf Heil had the opportunity to present the book, which was published last April, at several panel discussions and events organised by RETÖRKI, Eötvös Lóránd University – Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, the Kossuth Klub, the GRUND Association, among others, which were received with great interest.
In the spirit of the Christmas, seeking peace – Advent Dialogue
CDI Hungary was honoured to organise jointly with the Dialogue Foundation, the Advent Dialogue in Leányfalu.
The welcome speech by Gergely Gaál, founder of the Dialogue Foundation, was followed by a lively panel discussion between Dr. László Kiss-Rigó, Jonatán Megyeri, and Dr. András Korányi moderated by Katalin Kondor.
The CDI Hungary had the opportunity to organise jointly with the Foundation for a Civic Hungary the Conservative Ladies’ Breakfast for the second time, in which we were honored to host Judit Varga, former Minister of Justice of Hungary as our special guest.
Former Minister Varga genuinly shared her insights and thoughts on current political matters and some of the most important challenges of the year ahead and the upcoming EP elections were discussed.
The breakfast was attended by more than 30 ladies, among which were Her Excellencies, the Ambassadors of Norway, the Kingdom of Morocco and Brasil.
Together with the Christian Democratic Institute the Center for Fundamental Rights hosted a book launch on November 29th for the book “The Sao Paulo Forum’s Cultural Warfare” published by the Christian Democratic Institute.
The Curse of Popularity (A népszerűség átka) has been reviewed in Hungarian and in English on the website Kultúra és Közösség by Almadi Sejla.
“From the approximately eleven crisply written but factual chapters, we can learn about the conceptual difficulties of (political) populism, its history from the 19th century to the present day, and its current characteristics broken down into individual countries, parties, movements and leaders. As a final conclusion, populism can be the highest expression of democracy, but it is at least the path leading to it, and by no means its opposite.”
The full text of the review is available at the link below:
“Defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor.“
In a common initiative of the Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Christian Democratic Institute in Hungary an official visit has been organized to the Elderly Home of the Order of Malta in Páty.
The visit was attended by Her Excellency Trine Skymoen, Ambassador of Norway, who took the elderly with her presentation on an excursion to Norway, bringing to live many wonderful images of her beloved country.
The Curse of Popularity (A népszerűség átka) has been reviewed in Hungarian on the highly read Újkor.hu history education portal.
“The author of these lines does not wish to contribute to the extensive political science debates and to the intensification of the cavalcade of terminology; however, he wishes to praise the authors of The Curse of Popularity for having taken the concept of populism out of the mainstream canon of interpretation – if you like, out of the politically correct use of language and terms – and, in addition to the analysis of its historical antecedents, also focusing on contemporary phenomena.”
– Alex Pongrácz, the author
The full text of the review is available at the link below:
https://ujkor.hu/content/vox-populi-vox-dei-a-nepszeruseg-atka-es-a-populistak