The leaders of the Robert Schuman Foundation in Budapest

The President of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, visited our Foundation on 10 May. The head of the renowned French think tank focusing on European issues, who is also in close contact with the EU policy makers of President Emmanuel Macron, was invited by the Otto von Habsburg Foundation to participate in several meetings and conferences during his short stay in Budapest.

The limits of disagreement – substantive discussion at our V4 conference

On 22 April 2022, the Otto von Habsburg Foundation and the Institute for Strategic Studies of the National University of Public Service organised a conference entitled “Common Interests, Common Values? – Germany and the Visegrad Four in a time of new challenges” at the Széchenyi Hall of Ludovika. The main objective of the conference, organised on the occasion of the Hungarian V4 Presidency, was to present the history and the broader context of Central Europe

Visit by Ursula Plassnik, former Foreign Minister of Austria

Ursula Plassnik visited our Foundation on 6 May 2022. She served as Austrian Foreign Minister for four years from 2004, and before that for many years as head of the Vice-Chancellor’s and then Chancellor’s Cabinet of Wolfgang Schüssel. In 2010-11, she was of great help to the Hungarian foreign affairs leadership preparing for its first EU Presidency.

Invitation: Essential Europe

The Otto von Habsburg Foundation and the Institute for Strategic Studies of the National University of Public Service are organizing a roundtable discussion entitled Essential Europe on 10 May 2022 at Ludovika, with the participation of Jean-Dominique Giuliani, President of the Robert Schuman Foundation in Paris, and Tibor Navracsics, Member of Parliament, former Minister and EU Commissioner.