A Hungarian Perspective on the Future of Europe

2016 will be an important year in determining the future of Europe. Member countries of the European Union will have to respond to the UK's reform agenda. They will also have to make much needed decisions to increase competitiveness, stimulate growth and create jobs, while facing multiple challenges stemming from the recent economic and financial crisis, the rising level of insecurity in the EU's neighbourhood and the unprecedented magnitude of migration sweeping through Europe. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó will outline Hungary's perspective on the future of Europe.

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade since September 2014, Péter Szijjártó is an economist who earned his degree in International Relations from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration in 2002. He joined Fidesz in 1998. He was elected to member of the municipal government in the same year in the city of Gyor, and then he obtained a mandate between 2006 and 2010 again. He served as the Prime Minister’s spokesman from June 2010 to June 2012, and headed the Prime Minister’s staff in charge of press, international and organisational affairs. In June 2012 he was appointed to State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office. He served as Government Commissioner for Hungarian-Russian Relations and Hungarian Chinese Bilateral Relations from March 2013. In June 2014, he was appointed to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Since September, 2014, he has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Kevin Featherstone is Head of the European Institute, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory at LSE. 

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) was established in 1991 as a dedicated centre for the interdisciplinary study of processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.

Update, Friday 29 January: This event will now be taking place in the Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Buidling.

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