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 colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate and give a lecture at a conference on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Transcarpathian Local History Museum named after Tivadar Lehoczky in Uzhhorod on 19 June 2025 organised by the Museum, the Transcarpathian regional Council, the Transcarpathian Regional Military Administration and the Uzhhorod National University. Details can be found here.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec and Liliána Grexa, the National Assembly's spokesperson for Ukrainian nationality, discussed Hungarian-Ukrainian relations and the role of science at the 96th Celebration of Book Week in front of the Gondolat Publishing House book tent. The video can be watched here.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be signing her latest book on 15 June 2025 during the 96th Book Week in Budapest.

Csilla Fedinec: Ethnopolitics and Parliamentary Representation from Gorbachev's Last Years to the Second Trump Era. Gondolat Publishing House, 2025. 466 pages. (in Hungarian), ISBN 978 963 556 632 7, http://doi.org/10.24362/ukrajna.fedinec.2025

The intellectual and political history of Ukraine cannot be reduced to the fixed nationalist aspect in the public consciousness. Furthermore, nationalism is not an exclusively negative concept. Minorities in Ukraine are not merely an incidental group, but also a factor in political life. This book seeks to answer the question of how the relationship between the state and minorities has evolved over the past three decades, the role of the prevailing political context in this evolution, and the extent to which Ukraine has been subject to the influence of the great powers. It also explores intriguing topics such as the Azov Brigade, Eurasianism, banderism, post-colonialism, solidarity, the 'good Russians' dilemma, and many other familiar and lesser-known issues

Edited by Eszter Neumann and Iván Bajomi, the thematic issue of journal Educatio entitled Education policy in authoritarian context will be published in September. The online conference launching the issue will take place on the afternoon of 19 June 2025. Details can be found here.

The study titled "Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis" authored by Áron Hajnal and Attila Bartha, our Institute's researchers, has been published in the journal "Political Studies Review" (Q1).