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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.

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.

During her diplomatic career, Plassnik has represented her country in Bern and Paris and currently teaches at several French higher education institutions – she is one of the leading experts on European and French politics. In our collection, we showed her the correspondence between Otto von Habsburg and Wolfgang Schüssel, which provides interesting insights into the period of the enlargement of the European Union and Hungary’s membership. Ursula Plassnik then had a discussion with our curator György Károlyi – who was Hungarian Ambassador to Paris until the summer of 2021 – on the situation in France and the European Union, and the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The discussion at the National University of Public Service was moderated by foreign policy journalist Bálint Ablonczy.

 Photos by Dénes Szilágyi (University of Public Service)