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Today, lived experience is often the trump card in debate. A reference to identity allows an often privileged minority to present themselves as victims and silence opposition. In the media, universities and the workplace hurt feelings routinely justify censorship. Those who offend risk losing their livelihood or even, if accused of hate speech, a police record. On campus, in the art world, publishing and journalism, those who cry loudest about their suffering can wield considerable power. How has this situation come about? And how do we challenge it to reassert the importance of free speech? Is it fair to brand a younger generation 'snowflakes'? Is being offended really all that empowering? Joanna Williams and Viv Regan are both lifelong advocates of free speech. Over the past decade, they have experienced the emergence of a more censorious climate in universities and in the media first-hand. In this in-conversation event, they discuss the changing nature of threats to free speech and how best to challenge the cry bullies. Speakers: - Joanna Williams, Director of Cieo, author of several books, including How Woke Won and Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity, columnist for Spiked and a regular contributor to The Spectator, The Telegraph and The Times. - Viv Regan, Managing editor of Spiked (www.spiked-online.com), director of the Young Journalists' Academy - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

How has the concept of the rule of law evolved over the last decades and what is behind the politicization of the concept of the rule of law? To what extent can the developments in the debates between Hungary and the EU be seen as unique, or part of a wider international process? At what stage are currently the various rule of law procedures concerning Hungary? Eminent Hungarian and foreign representatives from the academic and political world will share their insights at the conference of the Danube Institute on 6th June 2023. The rule of law is a safeguard against arbitrary exercises of government power. It means the highest officials in the land, from King or President down, are subject to the same laws and regulations as ordinary citizens. In order to do this effectively the law must provide clarity, equality and predictability. It is not to be confused with the rule of judges or courts because they too, must act in conformity with laws passed by democratic legislations and with longstanding legal traditions. On June 6th, distinguished legal minds from several countries will review the ways in which the concept of the Rule of Law is being used and misused in modern politics and internationally. Speakers: - Ákos Bence Gát (PhD), Head of foreign affairs at the Danube Institute and researcher at the University of Public Service, author of “European policy on the Rule of law” – The rule of law debate in the EU: a glimpse behind the scenes - Panel discussion with the speakers and audience Q&A. - Gadi Taub (PhD), Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of public policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – A Coup in the Name of ‘The Rule of Law’: How the Plan to Reform Israel’s Judiciary Was Halted - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute - Prof. Csaba Varga, Professor Emeritus, Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Research Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Centre Institute for Legal Studies, author of “Rule of law – Contesting and Contested” – On the Rule of Law: Contesting and Contested - Prof. James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law, University of Queensland – The political seduction of law - Dialogue with János Bóka, State Secretary for European Union Affairs of Hungary Moderator: Ákos Bence Gát, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

How has the concept of the rule of law evolved over the last decades and what is behind the politicization of the concept of the rule of law? To what extent can the developments in the debates between Hungary and the EU be seen as unique, or part of a wider international process? At what stage are currently the various rule of law procedures concerning Hungary? Eminent Hungarian and foreign representatives from the academic and political world will share their insights at the conference of the Danube Institute on 6th June 2023. The rule of law is a safeguard against arbitrary exercises of government power. It means the highest officials in the land, from King or President down, are subject to the same laws and regulations as ordinary citizens. In order to do this effectively the law must provide clarity, equality and predictability. It is not to be confused with the rule of judges or courts because they too, must act in conformity with laws passed by democratic legislations and with longstanding legal traditions. On June 6th, distinguished legal minds from several countries will review the ways in which the concept of the Rule of Law is being used and misused in modern politics and internationally. Speakers: -Opening remarks by John O’Sullivan, President of the Danube Institute -Prof. Csaba Varga, Professor Emeritus, Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Research Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Centre Institute for Legal Studies, author of “Rule of law – Contesting and Contested” – On the Rule of Law: Contesting and Contested -Gadi Taub (PhD), Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of public policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – A Coup in the Name of ‘The Rule of Law’: How the Plan to Reform Israel’s Judiciary Was Halted -Prof. István Stumpf, University professor, former Justice of the Constitutional Court and minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office – The increasing importance of constitutional identity -Prof. James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law, University of Queensland – The political seduction of law Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 22 May 2023 The global rise of populism has contributed to the evolution of conservatism as a durable post-liberal political ideology. Most American conservatives are sympathetic to this new conservatism but a small but well-placed minority – especially in the establishment Republican Party and legacy media – reject it in favor of a de facto rapprochement with the Left. Some notable figures in this camp focus on the post-liberal Right’s interest in Hungary as a case of departing from traditional conservatism. Paul du Quenoy call these conservatives ‘Vichy Cons’, following the defeatism of France’s wartime Vichy regime, and in his lecture explains why he thinks that ‘Vichy Cons’ are so exercised by affinities between Hungary and the new American right, and how their antipathy is rooted in their own threatened position in American politics. Speakers: - Paul du Quenoy, President and Publisher of Academica Press and President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute - David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute - John O’Sullivan, President, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 10 May 2023 Dr Luttwak is an extraordinary military and political strategist with an international reputation. Go to Amazon, and there are more than twenty Luttwak books available. One of his more interesting books, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, was made into a movie. Luttwak is one of the few military strategists who has the rare distinction of being played by the British Actor Peter O’Toole. Fluent in five languages, Luttwak was born in Romania and has been a Senior Associate at CSIS and Chairman of AP Fleet (aircraft leasing) in Dublin, Ireland. He attended the London School of Economics (B.Sc.Econ), Johns Hopkins University (PhD), and the University of Bath (LLD Honoris Causa). He has served as a consultant to U. S. Government organizations, including the following as well as Treaty Allies of the U. S.: The Office of the Secretary of Defense, The National Security Council, The U.S. Department of State, The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force He founded and directs a conservation cattle ranch in the Bolivian Amazon. Before ever writing of strategy and war, he was combat-trained (Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and fought as a volunteer or a contractor in several countries on two continents. The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy (Harvard University Press) is his latest book, and his books have been published worldwide in twenty-two languages. Speakers: - Dr Edward Luttwak, an American author known for his works on grand strategy, military strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations - Balázs Mártonffy, PhD, Director, Institute for American Studies, University of Public Service - Hungary - John O’Sullivan, President, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 12 May 2023 Mr Henderson will speak about ‘Luxury Beliefs’, a phrase he coined a few years ago that has enjoyed widespread use among opinion formers throughout the English-speaking world. The idea derives from Thorsten Veblen’s observation that the affluent consumed and displayed luxury products as costly status symbols to demonstrate their economic capital and social rank. However, economic capital is often converted into cultural capital, in which the struggle for distinction is expressed by opinions, knowledge, vocabulary, tastes, and habits. He will share empirical research and theory from sociology, economics, and psychology, to suggest a novel approach to understanding social status: luxury beliefs, defined as ideas and opinions that confer status on the affluent, while often inflicting costs on the less fortunate. Speakers: - Rob Henderson, writer, psychologist, and faculty fellow, University of Austin - Rod Dreher, Visiting Fellow, Director of Network Project at the Danube Institute - Wael Taji Miller, Visiting Fellow, Danube Institute, PhD Candidate in Behavioral Neuroscience, Semmelweis University - Eric Hendriks, Visiting Fellow, Danube Institute - Melissa O’Sullivan, Deputy Director of the Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 09 May 2023 Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 21 April 2023 The family is simultaneously under attack and yet considered important by almost all political leaders today. The family is both politically pivotal and politically vulnerable. Why is this? How have political thinkers understood the relationship between politics and the household? What constructive role does the family play in the shaping of political life? Rather than focusing on the sociological, psychological, or economic evidence about the importance of the family, this lecture explores the ways that political thinkers across Western history have understood the relationship between the family and political society. In this way, it aims to provide fresh answers to the question of why the family matters for politics today. Speakers: - Dr. Simon P. Kennedy, Visiting Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium and a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland - Professor Daniel J. Mahoney, Danube Institute Visiting Fellow, author of the winner of the Conservative Book of the Year for 2023 - John O’Sullivan, The President of President, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

The Senate and the Congress of the State of Tennessee honored and commended the work of the Danube Institute in a joint resolution. At this occasion, István Kiss, executive director of the Danube Institute was invited to speak at the Senate on 3rd April 2023.

Date: 05 April 2023 Climate change is increasingly depicted as a human rights issue. A dozen cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights suggest that a state's obligation to protect human rights implies an obligation to limit and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. A widespread discourse suggests that hundreds of millions of "climate refugees" will roam the Earth in the coming decades. Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 27 March 2023 Chris Rufo, Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute, and senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute will headline an in-depth look at critical race theory (CRT) and how this ideology is infecting Western institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. What is CRT? How widespread is the problem? How has it managed to sink its roots into our civic, cultural, and governmental institutions? What is to be done? Speakers: - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute - Pierre Valentin, commentator and writer, France - Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs, The Heritage Foundation, U. S. - Rod Dreher, author of Live Not by Lies, commentator & blogger, Danube Institute Fellow & Director of Network Project, U. S. & HU - Chris Rufo, a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute from the U. S., who has written extensively on Critical Race Theory in the U. S., headlines a program on Critical Race Theory & More. - John O’Sullivan, President of the Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 07 March 2023 Eurasianism as a Response to Global Crisis: Dugin's political ideology in historical and contemporary context Dr. Noble and Anton Bendarzsevszkij discussed the Neo-Eurasian political thoughts of Alexander Dugin in relation to the long century of Russian Eurasianism. Seeking to explain Russia's unique social, political and cultural essence, Eurasianism relies on a combination of historical, geographical and esoteric arguments. While Dugin's extreme "counter-Western" philosophy has been a fringe mainstay for decades, the recent rapid transformation of geopolitical dynamics has potentially created a new place for Neo-Eurasianism in Russian political and cultural discourse. The event aimed to help better understanding of ideologies influential in nowadays Russia. The speakers gave a critical analysis not only of Dugin’s ideas, but also other ideological currents which can have impact on Russian public opinion and political leaders. Speakers: - Dr. Brittany Pheiffer Noble, an expert on 20th-century Russian intellectual history and religion - Anton Bendarzsevszkij, Director of research, Oeconomus Economic Research Foundation - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 28 February 2023 The two-volume Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality, published by Helena Historical Press in the United States, provides an insight into the problem of anti-Semitism in Hungary on both a historical and contemporary basis as seen through the eyes of Hungarian Jewish leaders, international NGO's, academics from Israel and the United States, and the Hungarian government. Volume One reflects the speeches given at the Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality conference which was held in 2021 as well as a selection of original academic articles. Volume 2 is composed of in-depth interviews with Jewish leaders from across the spectrum of Hungarian Jewish life. To celebrate the release of the books the Danube institute is proud to host a follow-up conference that again features leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community, Hungarian and foreign academics, and representatives of Hungarian NGOs. Speakers: - Prof. Motti Inbari, University of North Carolina - Ádám Schönberger, Marom (Zsidó ifjúsági kulturális szervezet) - Tibor Pécsi, March of the Living - Virág Lőrincz, Danube Institute - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute - Péter Morvay, Translator Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 28 February 2023 The two-volume Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality, published by Helena Historical Press in the United States, provides an insight into the problem of anti-Semitism in Hungary on both a historical and contemporary basis as seen through the eyes of Hungarian Jewish leaders, international NGO's, academics from Israel and the United States, and the Hungarian government. Volume One reflects the speeches given at the Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality conference which was held in 2021 as well as a selection of original academic articles. Volume 2 is composed of in-depth interviews with Jewish leaders from across the spectrum of Hungarian Jewish life. To celebrate the release of the books the Danube institute is proud to host a follow-up conference that again features leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community, Hungarian and foreign academics, and representatives of Hungarian NGOs. Speakers: - Prof. Jehuda Hartman, Israel - Prof. Menachem Karen-Kratz, Israel - György Szabó, MAZSÖK - Virág Lőrincz, Danube Institute - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute - Péter Morvay, Translator Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 28 February 2023 The two-volume Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality, published by Helena Historical Press in the United States, provides an insight into the problem of anti-Semitism in Hungary on both a historical and contemporary basis as seen through the eyes of Hungarian Jewish leaders, international NGO's, academics from Israel and the United States, and the Hungarian government. Volume One reflects the speeches given at the Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality conference which was held in 2021 as well as a selection of original academic articles. Volume 2 is composed of in-depth interviews with Jewish leaders from across the spectrum of Hungarian Jewish life. To celebrate the release of the books the Danube institute is proud to host a follow-up conference that again features leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community, Hungarian and foreign academics, and representatives of Hungarian NGOs. Speakers: - Prof. András Kovács, CEU - Rabbi Báruch Oberlander, Chief Rabbi EMIH, Chabad Hungary - Virág Lőrincz, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 28 February 2023 The two-volume Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality, published by Helena Historical Press in the United States, provides an insight into the problem of anti-Semitism in Hungary on both a historical and contemporary basis as seen through the eyes of Hungarian Jewish leaders, international NGO's, academics from Israel and the United States, and the Hungarian government. Volume One reflects the speeches given at the Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality conference which was held in 2021 as well as a selection of original academic articles. Volume 2 is composed of in-depth interviews with Jewish leaders from across the spectrum of Hungarian Jewish life. To celebrate the release of the books the Danube institute is proud to host a follow-up conference that again features leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community, Hungarian and foreign academics, and representatives of Hungarian NGOs. Speakers: - Jeffrey Kaplan, Danube Institute - Amb. Yacov Hadas-Handelsman, Israeli Ambassador to Hungary - Virág Lőrincz, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 22 February 2023 During the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period there were several distinct movements pushing for a return to the Orthodox Church. In her lecture, Dr. Noble considers these religious currents and how they relate to the institutional church. She also analyses how demographic trends and religious practices illuminate popular Orthodoxy piety in 21st century Russia. Finally, she examines how these at times come into conflict with the institutional church's relationship to the Russian state. Brittany Pheiffer Noble holds a PhD in from the Slavic Department of Columbia University in New York City. Her field of expertise is 20th century Russian intellectual history and religion with a particular focus on Russian emigré thought and culture. She is co-translator of Arab Orthodox under the Ottomans:1518-1831 and resides in Leuven, Belgium. Speakers: -Dr. Brittany Pheiffer Noble, expert on 20th century Russian intellectual history and religion -Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 13 February 2023 Dr. Anna Loutfi is a legal academic and practicing barrister in the UK. Her practice and her academic writing concentrate on issues relating to the equality act and freedom of speech constraints in the European and UK common law regimes. The focus of her talk was the category of philosophical belief in UK equality law and its implications for general freedom of expression under common law and ECHR regimes. The presentation explored how the understanding of belief and particularly notions like blasphemy expanded their legal remit in both European and UK law. In recent decades this has led to legal decisions that have, over time, restricted debate in areas from religious practice to views on gender, the environment, human rights, and illegal migration. Dr. Loutfi’s discussion explored how this case law evolution of what constitutes belief gradually eroded the space for questioning and debating what used to be essentially deeply held opinions. It is this evolution, rather than any abstract commitment to free speech, that is undermining what were once open societies. Speakers: -Dr. Anna Loutfi, Legal Academic and Practicing Barrister -John O’Sullivan, President, Danube Institute -Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 07 February 2023 Why was Jesus, who said ‘I judge no one’, put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is a historical question—but it is not only historical. Jesus’ life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era, when ‘pagan’ and Christian philosophers clashed over the meaning of his sayings and the significance of his death. Modern philosophers, too, such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, have tried to retrace the arc of Jesus’s life and death. I Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs, or ‘gospels’, that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. David Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First, that human judgments are pervasive and deceptive; and second, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death, what Jesus’s sayings revealed - and still reveal - is that our highest desires lie beyond the political. Speakers: -Dr. David L. Dusenbury, Senior Fellow, Danube Institute -Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute -Prof. György László Geréby, CEU Philosophy, History, & Medieval Studies Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 1-2 December 2022 The Danube Institute is proud to present its second annual summit on Geopolitics in Budapest. Panel Discussions focused on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its after-effects on the region as well as transnational issues, including the status of NATO capabilities, global energy, trade, and logistics affairs, and the competing ideals and agendas that impact them. Speakers: - David Oldroyd-Bolt, British Historian and political consultant - Dr. Gladden Pappin, Associate Professor University of Dallas/Visiting MCC Senior Visiting Fellow, founder and co-editor of American Affairs - Karlyn Bowman, Distinguished Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D. C. - H.E. Dr. János Hóvári, Ambassador to the Turkic Nations, Professor of Turkic Studies - Dr. Ofir Haivry, Visiting Fellow Danube Institute, V. P. Herzl Institute - Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History - István Kiss, Executive Director, Danube Institute, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Hungarian Conservative - Wael Taji Miller, Visiting Fellow, Danube Institute Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 1-2 December 2022 The Danube Institute is proud to present its second annual summit on Geopolitics in Budapest. Panel Discussions focused on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its after-effects on the region as well as transnational issues, including the status of NATO capabilities, global energy, trade, and logistics affairs, and the competing ideals and agendas that impact them. Speakers: - Prof. David Martin Jones, Director of Research at the Danube Institute Topic: Competing Visions: The Clash of Civilizations and Ideas - Dr. George Bogden, Olin Fellow, Columbia University/Senior Visiting Researcher at Bard College/2022 Helmut Schmidt Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, Berlin Topic: Rules-based orders: Nationalism vs Globalism - John O’Sullivan, CBE, President of the Danube Institute Topic: Democracy vs. Authoritarianism, The Biden Foreign Policy - Prof. Maria Engström, Professor of Russian at Uppsala University, Sweden Topic: Russia’s Worldview: Katechon and Atomic Orthodoxy - Prof. Jeffrey Kaplan, Distinguished Fellow, Danube Institute Topic: Rifts in the Muslim World: Global Jihad - Prof. Mark Sedgwick, Aarhaus University, Denmark Topic: The Radical Right and Clashes of Civilizations and Ideas - Erzsébet Rózsa Nagyné Dr., Professor, National University of Public Service Topic: Iran in a Post-American Middle Eastern Order Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 1-2 December 2022 The Danube Institute is proud to present its second annual summit on Geopolitics in Budapest. Panel Discussions focused on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its after-effects on the region as well as transnational issues, including the status of NATO capabilities, global energy, trade, and logistics affairs, and the competing ideals and agendas that impact them. Speakers: - John O’Sullivan, CBE, President of the Danube Institute - Wael Taji Miller, Visiting Fellow, Danube Institute - The Honorable Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia Topic: Geopolitics: Diplomacy, Alliances & Military Power Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 1-2 December 2022 The Danube Institute is proud to present its second annual summit on Geopolitics in Budapest. Panel Discussions focused on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its after-effects on the region as well as transnational issues, including the status of NATO capabilities, global energy, trade, and logistics affairs, and the competing ideals and agendas that impact them. Speakers: - Logan West, Budapest Fellow - John O’Sullivan, President of Danube Institute - Prof. Dr Tamás Dezső, President, Board of Trustees of the Batthyány Lajos Foundation - Krisztina Varju, Deputy State Secretary for European Affairs Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba

Date: 1-2 December 2022 The Danube Institute is proud to present its second annual summit on Geopolitics in Budapest. Panel Discussions focused on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its after-effects on the region as well as transnational issues, including the status of NATO capabilities, global energy, trade, and logistics affairs, and the competing ideals and agendas that impact them. Speakers: - Prof. Frank Füredi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, U. K. Topic: The Geopolitical Illiteracy of the West Music Info: Flying and Uplifting - No Copyright Background Music by LesFreeMusic. Music Link: • Flying and Uplift... Outro Music by Coma-Media from Pixaba