What is Ukraine really like that we only talk about in terms of war?
Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec on Szeged TV from 12 July 2025
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Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec on Szeged TV from 12 July 2025
The full issue is available on the journal's website.
From the contents
Femininity in the prose of Mária Berde, Irén P. Gulácsy, György Dragomán, and Sándor Zsigmond Papp
Parliamentary representation of minorities in Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, and Germany
County officials in Transylvania, 1918–1925
The article by Zuzsanna Sütő: Who Prefers to Stay? Individual and Institutional Factors Supporting Immobility among Minority Hungarian Higher Education Students was published in the journal Treatises and Documents: Journal of Ethnic Studies. You can read the open access article here.
An article by Béni L. Balogh was published in the RUBICON Online column “Central Europe at Versailles”. The article entitled "From soldier to politician. Alexandru Averescu's activities as Prime Minister" can be read here.
Eszter Farkas and Anna Ujlaki's report has been published in the volume "Changing Migration Patterns: A Comparative Study on the Movement of People and the Impact for Countries in the Region", edited by Ninna Mörner. The title of our researchers' report is "Between Welcome and Rejection: Hungary’s Overpoliticized Immigration Narrative."
On the occasion of the Constitution Day of Ukraine and the Day of Hungarian Freedom, the Embassy of Ukraine in Budapest hosted the presentation of our colleague Csilla Fedinec's latest book. The private event was attended by prominent Hungarian experts, representatives of the Ukrainian national minority in Hungary and the Transcarpathian Dragons Foundation.
Our director, Attila Papp Z. and our colleague András Morauszki presented on 27 June 2025 in Budapest, at the conference ‘The social situation of young Hungarians in Slovakia in the light of recent research’ organised by the Impulzus Association. Their presentations were entitled:
Attila Papp Z.: Minority Hungarian Students in the PISA Assessments with Special Attention to Hungarian Youth in Slovakia.
András Morauszki: Civic engagement and public interest of young Hungarians in Slovakia
Bálint Hilbert, Lea Kőszeghy, Zsolt Szabolcsi, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present). European Planning Studies, 1–20. 1.115 (D1) IF. 3.2
A new article authored by Ákos Holányi, Junior Research Fellow at our Institute, has been published in the Journal of European Integration (Q1) under the title "Unpolitics, domestic pressures, or else? The opposition of Visegrád Group countries to the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum."
An article by our colleague Béni L. Balogh was published in the June 17, 2025 issue of the daily newspaper Szabadság in Cluj. It is entitled: “»Budapest and Bucharest are both the stars of Transylvania« - Petru Groza and the Hungarians”. The article can be read here (in Hungarian).
Our results
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
4 November, 2024
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Manna, A., Koltai, J. & Karsai, M. Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communication 15, 4137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y