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7/4/24, 9:46 PM

MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: A Republic in Crisis - The French Elections

The first round of the French elections delivered a powerful victory to Marine Le Pen and a humiliating defeat for French President Emmanual Macron.
7/2/24, 8:13 PM

What are universities for?

The continued existence of universities belies the fundamental changes that have occurred over the course of a millennia. The number of universities and students has increased exponentially and their purpose and cultural significance has been transformed.
7/5/22, 2:48 PM

MCC GeoPod: Afghanistan - One year after the withdrawal of Western troops

How can Afghanistan be seen a year after the Taliban took power?
6/28/22, 7:55 AM

MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: 2022 French legislative election

As the hugest surprise of the French legislative elections held on 12 and 19 June, Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party coalition Ensemble failed to ensure an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
6/14/22, 10:38 AM

MCC Podcast: EU Sanctions Packages against Russia

In this edition of the MCC Pod-Vid series, Mr. Rodrigo Ballester, Head of the Centre for European Studies at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, helps us assess the process of elaboration, negotiations, and adoption of the 6th EU sanctions package against Russia.
5/30/22, 10:13 AM

The Decline and Fall of the World Expo

March 31st marked the end of the World Expo in Dubai. Officially the Expo 2020, the celebration was postponed due to Covid and couldn’t debut until October of last year.
5/16/22, 9:52 AM

An IPhone or a Poket in My Hand

The other day a friend took me to a vending machine selling pocket books.
5/13/22, 8:01 AM

Can we trust public opinion polls?

Public opinion polls are an important part of social research. They are actively used in social science, politics, and business. But can we perceive the outcomes of these polls as an indicator of the real moods and desires of society?
5/10/22, 2:16 PM

Ukraine, cyberwarfare and Anonymous: who is a (legitimate) target and who is neutral?

While Anonymous has declared to be “in cyber war” against Russia, each individual acting as Anonymous can become a legitimate target under international humanitarian law, also triggering co-belligerency status of countries from which they operate.
5/6/22, 12:34 PM

MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: 2022 Slovenian legislative election

This time, the Votes & Seats podcast focuses on the 24 April 2022 parliamentary election in Slovenia.
5/3/22, 10:29 AM

Ireland’s journey to the 15% corporate tax

For many years Ireland has been famous for its corporate tax rate of 12.5%, which has attracted numerous companies to move their headquarters to the beautiful country.
4/25/22, 7:33 PM

The Role of Commitment in Business Decisions

Before the first prototype of A380 aircraft was unveiled, Airbus had already secured more than 100 orders of A380.
4/21/22, 10:47 AM

MCC Podcast: Polémia | How to communicate effectively in a debate (Kelli Buzzard)

This podcast will be with a special guest, Kelli Buzzard who joined the Budapest Fellowship program last year.
4/20/22, 2:56 PM

Artificial versus Human Agency

Since the Dartmouth Workshop of 1956, when the term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) was coined, the field has experienced exponential development. Dreams of building machines capable of imitating, replicating or even surpassing human intelligence have been present throughout history.
4/13/22, 10:22 AM

The Great Resignation at Amazon: Employees’ Burnout and Leadership Strategies

Work-life balance is among the most heated and contentious leadership debates.
4/13/22, 9:40 AM

MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: 2022 Serbian General Election

In the latest edition of the MCC Votes & Seats podcast series, we talked about the 2022 general election in Serbia that was held on 3 April 2022 to elect both the head of state and members of the National Assembly.
4/12/22, 9:14 AM

Human beings of the 21st century: objects or subjects?

Transhumanism, bioconservatism, eternal life and cyborgs. Are these sci-fi, conspiracy theories or the alarming present? Miklos Lukacs de Pereny, Visiting Fellow at MCC provided possible answers.
4/11/22, 9:24 AM

MCC LeaderShape Podcast: Energy follows information (Nigel Thurlow)

We live in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world.
4/11/22, 9:21 AM

MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: 2022 Hungarian legislative election

As of April 6, 2022, the Fidesz-KDNP leads the vote by a wide margin and will gain 135 parliamentary seats, two more than in 2014 or 2018.
4/11/22, 6:47 AM

MCC Podcast: British conservatism and the euro's future (Prof. Dr. Dominik Geppert)

The British conservatism, the program of the Tories from Benjamin Disraeli to Boris Johnson and the question of how liberal the British conservatism actually is, are all important in our today’s time.
4/6/22, 8:00 AM

An outlook of the housing market in Ireland

As most developed countries, Ireland was strongly affected by the global financial crisis and needed many years in order to recover from the economic downturn starting in 2007.
4/4/22, 8:00 AM

A Leader’s Sense of Timing

In an interview, Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first to climb Mount Everest, commented on one of the central qualities of a leader: “There are some people who are natural leaders, who have the ability to think quickly or choose the right decisions at the right moment. But I think there are an awful lot of us who have to learn how to be a leader, and in actual fact, I believe that most people, if they really want to, can become competent leaders.”

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