The leading expert of CDI Hungary, Alejandro Pena Esclusa gave a lecture on the importance of Classical Arts to MCC students in Szeged, using the findings of his newest book “Classical Art and cultural Warfare”.

The CDI Hungary was honoured to co-host the Lady Ambassadors’ Charity Initiative  Introductory Evening with the Hungarian Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

The event included a presentation by the Hospitaller of the Order of Malta Dr. Lóránd G. Erőss and a presentation by László Moravcsik, project leader on behalf of Miklós Vecsei, Ministerial Commissioner for the Emerging Settlements Program and Vice-President of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service.

The evening ended with a reception, in which the participants had the opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss possible ways of involvement in the work of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service.

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.

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 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:

17_Almadi_2023_03.pdf (kulturaeskozosseg.hu)