Analyzes
VOF: The issue of land should stay under member states' competency!
According to the communication of the National Forum of Rural Development, CAP reform should ensure member state sovereignty over their land market rules.
Euro is possible by 2014 in Hungary?
According to GKI Economc Research company along with Erste Bank forecast, Hungary can adopt the euro in 2014.
Expert: Reforms are needed to make regions work
György Csomós, assistant professor at the University of Debrecen urges to reform the system of the Hungarian public administration. Tension between regions, counties and cities is the main barrier for new structures, csomós believes, and the solution lies in building regional governments, he suggests.
Glattfelder: Land prohibition against Brussels
Gergely Varga: Obama let Europe back, Europe let Obama back
NIF: We want a railway that provides real service!
Brussels neglects the infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe?
According to the report of the Commission, Central and Eastern Europe doesn’t get the one third of the budget of the TEN-T projects. Romania and Bulgaria are lag behind from the others in the area.
Hungarian military forces have reached their margins
As President Obama and the NATO decided to extend the number of troops in Afghanistan, Hungary had also pledged to send 200 more soldiers to the Territory of Baghlan. "Today it seems that this commitment will not be tenable" - says Péter Wágner, analyst of the Hungarian Foreign Policy Institute.
Dr. Alicja Curanovićot: Smart Presidency is the key to Central-Eastern Europe’s succes
Double citizenship - We can see the value-oriented turn predicted by experts
"It has been defined that we need "value-oriented" and not "materially oriented foreign policy, which has to be given a face of human rights." - Andárs Türke, director of the European Varietas Institution writes in his recent analysis about the new Hungarian foreign policy. The expert says, it is of basic importance, how the new government presents it´s initiatives on the international level.
Iván Tosics: EU funds will have to paid back soon
SME-ambassador: Go, explore, undertake!
ICDT: Even without the Court ruling, Kosovo already made a precedent!
Innovation of the Hungarian enterprises
„Neither the best research results could see as innovation, until someone adopts it.” – said Némethné Pál Katalin, the research fellow of the GKI Economic Research Co. According to her, instead of the inputs the business adaptability should be the gage of the successful innovation policy.
Agrar study: Biofuel is cheaper than mineral oil
While the price of both bio fuel and fuel from mineral oils are increasing, the gap between the two is becoming shorter and shorter, the Research Center for Agrar Sciences states in a recent study. Therefore in some European countries it is already cheaper to by a bio car than a traditional one.
The French energy diplomacy signals the renaissance of nuclear energy
According to Gabriella Steingart, the analyst of the National Security Review (Biztonságpolitikai Szemle) of the Corvinus Foreign Affairs and Cultural Association (Corvinus Külügyi és Kulturális Egyesület), the European anti-nuclear club founded after the catastrophe in Chernobyl is about to fall apart since after Asia and the US European countries decide to build reactors or increase the efficiency and life span of the already existing ones.
This is not just a fault of the Greeks
Not just Greece is responsible for the crisis of the Eurozone, says the economist Zoltán Pogátsa. He points out that also the problems of the internal market will have to come to the surface.
Too early to say that Nabucco has failed!
It would be too early to say that the Nabucco project has failed, says the analyst of the Brussels based think tank, Center for European Reform (CER). Big member states should support the construction of the pipeline more intensively as the EU could also use it for strengthening it’s ties via the neighboring countries, he states.
Social Alliance: It is impossible to create one million jobs on the short term
Credible Green Investment Scheme!
According to a working paper of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy of CEU the credible Green Investment Scheme have future. As since two years several Central and Eastern-European countries are in the process of implementing GIS schemes, and Hungary was the first who sold Assigned Amount Units in September 2008 to Belgium.
Mlinarics József: We are on the eve of a "digital revolution"
Annamária Inzelt: Need to change financial behaviour as well
Kincses: Telemedicine is an appreciating territory
UEAPME Vice President: SMEs can be happy for Fidesz!
Nikola Đukić: We expect the visa-free regime in autumn at the latest
Baramidze: We expect Russia to behave like a 21st century European country!
Kozhara: Ukraine will remain the major transit country of Russian gas!
Hungarian FM: We have showed Brussels how the Slovak language rules relate to EU law
Pál Schmitt: Croatia is going to be a member state by 2012
Hegyi Gyula: New Government has to face with the case of Danube´s barriages
WIFO: Neighbours don´t know each other
Smahó Melinda the college of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Regional Studies West-Hungarian Research Institute wrote about the subject that how much the economic theories take the knowledge into account if they are dealing with regional development. The writer put the knowledge into the center and analyzed the weak points of the Austrian–Hungarian cross-boarder cooperation.
Energy specialist: Nobody builds on empty pipelines!
Tamás Szűcs: Bigger openness, more programs!
"We are gypsies and that is why they don’t listen to us"
According to the recent publication of Amnesty International in Romania 75 per cent of the Roma living in poverty. Moreover the minority (10 per cent of the whole population of Romania) is the victim of the regular government segregation.
EU regions chief: 2020 strategy must go local
Who does decide about health care policy? – interests enforcing in the EU
Health Care policy is the field, where Member States have relatively huge autonomy in the EU. Within the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999) the Community received a measure of influences, although it did not become a part of Community Policy. How the interests of Member State’s and the Union can meet, how can they complete each other? Nadia Carboni’s essay provides answers for that.
Secretary of State: Hungary will have to fight for energy policy
The Eastern Partnership in the context of the ENP and V4 agenda
Czech, Polish and Hungarian professionals argue that 2011 will be a crucial year for the Eastern Partnership. Their views are summarized in a joint paper that was published with the cooperation of three think tanks, the Central European University and it´s Center for EU Enlargement Studies among them.
Sorbonne Doctor: Th newest EU fears about the Slovak language law
"The reactions of Mr. High Commissioner Knut Vollebaek can be decisive on the protection of European minorities." - Doctor of Sorbonne and director of the European Varietas Institute, András Türke wrote in his recent analysis about the European responses to the Slovak language-law.
Rod Christie: Innovation of strategy is badly needed!
Brigitta Bozsó: There is no chance to reach an legally binding agreement
Áder: We have to secure our spared money
Barta E. Gyula: There is no success without luck!
Gábor Iván: Hungary will help Lisbon implementation
Hungarian diplomatic games - without struggles
Hungary´s interest representation and national politics concerning Hungarian minorities were the main subjects of Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Balázs´s opening speech in a conference concerning Hungarian national interest in the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs on Friday (27th November). The Foreign Minister said that Hungarian diplomacy is used to games rather than open struggles and that Hungary´s national politics needs to be improved.
Topolánek: Even Sarkozy minds V4!
Analyst: 20 years are gone, but inner problems still exist
Analyst: Fidesz EU-budget, active socialists
"László Surján, rapporteur of the EU-budget received the most spotlight among Hungarian MEPs in October. In between fast-track professional work has started among socialist MEPs, while Jobbik representative, Krisztina Morvai mostly does political show in Strasbourg" - the political analyst center, Policy Solutions writes in his October research.
Feheri Gyoergy: When a black and white film gets colour
Constellation Energy: Hungary is defenceless
"Hungary makes no substantive steps related to energy policy," claims Constellation Energy Institute (CEI). Director, Anita Orbán says, Hungary is in a defenseless situation, as the country "depends very much from foreign resources, it has no economic latitude and its green energy potential is significantly smaller then of other countries of the region".
International lawyer: Klaus is a hazardeur of international law!
László Surján: We need targeted EU resources
Former FM: Hungary and Slovakia has numerous common interests
NFFT: Barroso can still change his mind
Expert: No changes in German-Russian relations due to elections
"Irrespective of the German election result, the “special relationship” between Germany and Russia will continue to thrive. The global economic crisis has served to forge even closer business ties between Germany and Russia. […] Germany is likely to concentrate on economic relations with Russia, which have proved lucrative, and to confine criticism of Russian domestic affairs to rhetoric", according to Researcher of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Minna-Mari Salminen.
Ambassador: Iceland ready to complete EU talks by 2011
Cecilia Björner: Presidency is fun!
Péter Balázs: If elephants fight we don´t need to run between them
Herczog: Nabucco is just the first step
Szonda Ipsos: Two thirds of the SMEs don´t do any marketing
Recent analysis of Szonda Ipsos, Hungarian pollster says that only one third of the SMEs do conscious marketing for their products. Although this rate seems to be quite low, analysts say the numbers have increased in the last years. SMEs support internet-based solutions the more often.
Iceland: questions of joining the EU
"Iceland´s politicians need to conduct an open and transparent debate with the public and with the interest groups concerned, so that the final decision [on whether to join the European Union] is taken on the basis of the best possible information about the EU and what membership means," wrote Graham Avery, a senior advisor at the European Policy Centre, in a September analysis.
EU-Russia: the time of reconciliation and approach is here
"Any assumptions that having less daily cash flow as a result of the oil price plunge will change Russia into a more compliant and accommodating neighbour are simply unrealistic. For all that, now is the time for the EU to widen its interaction with Russia because for both sides patience will pay off in the end." - writes Christopher Weafer, Chief Strategist of Uralsib Capital in Russia.
The West Balkans: Between the EU, the USA and Russia
"The realization of the South Stream project would help consolidate EU-Russian co-operation in the West Balkans," writes Dušan Reljić, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, in an August paper.
Iceland’s path to EU membership may be a rocky one
The Icelandic parliament´s recent vote "to apply for membership [of the European Union] was a close run thing – 33 in favour, 28 against – and it would certainly be wrong to underestimate the negotiating difficulties which lie ahead," writes Michael Berendt, a former European Commission official and current public affairs adviser, in a July post on Blogactiv.
GKI prosperity index prgressing for the third month in a row
After the fall since last October, and the stagnation since April, July is the third month in line when conjuncture index of the GKI Economic Research Institute. The report -co-financed by the EU- shows already similar rates to the ones in last November.
"While the French Presidency and Nicolas Sarkozy was said to personalize the EU, and gave an answer to the Kissinger-question "what should I call if I want to speak to Europe?";, we only can hope that people do not knock on the door of Mr Václáv Klaus, if they want to get Europe know better. The eurosceptic attitude of the Czech president has weight down the achievements of the Czech Presidency." - says Korinna Vas, member of the Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture.
World Bank: Reforms helping EU businesses, jobs
Decreasing pessimism in the economy
GKI Economic Research Co. and Erste Bank predict the worst to be over in the crisis. The Hungarian economic performance seems to have touched the bottom this summer. External balance ameliorates gradually and inner balance also fits international requirements.
Lessons learnt from the Czech Presidency
The performance of the Czech EU-Presidency has not been an ultimate triumph. While some of what went wrong in the course of the first half of 2009 might be attributed to extenuating circumstances, it is still useful to examine the mistakes. It could be especially useful to extract the lessons to learn for Hungary, as in the first half of 2011 we have to cope with the task of the President of the EU. A new Commentary by CEPS Research Fellow Piotr Maciej Kaczyński identifies five major mistakes committed during those difficult six months.
