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5/24/22, 11:37 AM
Lunch Talks

The Protection of Freedom of Expression from Social Media Platforms

Budapest
The fourth, and the last speaker of the special MCC Lunch Talks series of May was András Koltay, PhD, lawyer, head of the MCC Center for Free Speech.
5/23/22, 2:21 PM

High Courts Inside Out

Budapest
Michael Shenkman, Deputy Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States, and the Administrative Director of the Supreme Court Fellows Program and Attila Szabó, Chief of Cabinet of the President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court shared their experiences.
5/17/22, 11:23 AM
Lunch Talks

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office: A bull in a china shop?

Budapest
The third speaker of the special MCC Lunch Talks series of May was András Csúri, PhD, lawyer, head of the MCC Center for Criminal Law.
5/17/22, 8:14 AM
Ambassador Talks

The Ambassador of Slovenia to Hungary paid us visit

Budapest
The handling of the coronavirus pandemic and distrust in the old parties caused the political realignment following the elections in Slovenia, said the Ambassador analysing the results. At Monday's Ambassador Talk event, not only did Marjan Cencen present the political situation in our south-western neighbour, but he also spoke about his duties as an ambassador and the challenges of his job.
5/13/22, 12:08 PM

The MCC Teaching and Educational Strategy is now available online!

Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) has published a strategy document which aims to lay down the unique teaching and educational principles of the institution. These principles have been crystallized over 25 years of experience, and following a professional dialogue conducted in 2021 and 2022, the document has been completed and expanded.
5/13/22, 11:04 AM
School of Law

Inter Arma Enim Silent Lēgēs?

Budapest
Bruno Simma, former member of the International Court of Justice, currently professor of law at the University of Michigan, and Réka Varga, former legal counsel to the International Committee of the Red Cross, currently associate professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University sought answers to this question in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the event organized by the MCC International Law Center. The conversation was moderated by Lénárd Sándor, head of the MCC International Law Center.
5/11/22, 2:35 PM
Lunch Talks

The Multifaceted Nature of International Law

Budapest
The second speaker of the special MCC Lunch Talks series of May was Lénárd Sándor, PhD, lawyer, economist, head of the MCC Center for International Law.
5/9/22, 1:07 PM

What’s Next for Hungary?

London
Respect for traditions and culture is the basis of modern conservatism, said Balázs Orbán, MCC's Chairman of the Board of Trustees in London. MCC's lecturers and researchers also attended the conference where they analyzed the Hungarian parliamentary elections. The event "What's Next for Hungary - The Political Landscape After the Election" was organized by the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the Danube Institute and the Hungarian Conservative in cooperation with the Embassy of Hungary.
5/6/22, 11:25 AM
Ambassador Talks

The Ambassador of Hungary to Finland was in Budapest

Budapest
H.E. Klára Breuer, Ambassador of Hungary to Finland, was the latest guest of the MCC Ambassador Talks series.
5/5/22, 2:18 PM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

Discover Hungary: Pannonhalma

Pannonhalma
During our last spring trip, participants of the Budapest Fellowship Program and Visiting Fellows had the opportunity to explore one of Hungary's most precious historical town Pannonhalma.
5/3/22, 8:03 AM
Lunch Talks

This is how bitcoin will die

Budapest
The first speaker of the special MCC Lunch Talks series of May was Géza Sebestyén, PhD, economist, associate professor, head of the MCC Economic Policy Center.
4/14/22, 3:32 PM

„Islands of excellence should meet, this makes Europe better” – Spyridon Flogaitis, President of the European Public Law Organization visited the MCC

Budapest
Organised by MCC, and its Public Law Center, in cooperation with Constitutional Discourse, the President of the European Public Law Organization, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis, has visited Budapest between 11-12 April. During the two days, he has met several heads of the different centers from MCC and the colleagues of the Law School, but also participated in a roundtable discussing the current topics and trends in European constitutional discourse with Rodrigo Ballester, Lénárd Sándor, Kálmán Pócza and Márton Sulyok. During the roundtable, in a back-and-forth of questions between the panelists, Prof. Flogaitis has highlighted the diversity of the Member States of the EU through the example of his home country, Greece, and called attention to the fact of Member States’ viewpoints, with special focus on their different „constitutional pasts”. The EPLO President talked about his views on European integration, the current and future role of politics and the very different roles of politician and judges. In addition, he addressed the concurrent, different interpretations of the rule of law in this context. He emphasized the relationship of the Court of Justice of the EU and national constitutional courts.
4/14/22, 3:04 PM

“It’s great to have a lot of indexes measuring rule of law, but they should not be dominant in informing European policy decisions” – Webinar with Professor Nuno Garoupa

Budapest
The Public Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Politics have had the pleasure to host Prof. Nuno Garoupa from George Mason University (Fairfax, USA) for a webinar talk regarding the 2021 book edited by Garoupa and two co-editors titled “High Courts in Global Perspective”.
4/11/22, 1:23 PM
Election Nights

French Election Night at MCC

Budapest
A week after the Hungarian parliamentary elections, the Election Night series of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) once again focus on events abroad. This time, the first round of the French presidential election was on the agenda at the MCC headquarters in Tas vezér Street.
4/5/22, 8:07 AM
Leadership Academy

Scenario-based exercise

Budapest
In the spring semester of 2022, a scenario-based warfare exercise for students of the MCC Leadership Training Programme was again organised. The training was taught this year by Hungarian Army Lieutenant Colonel Csaba Bakos anew, the only Hungarian professional soldier to have taught at the most famous military academy in the United States - and certainly in the world - West Point.
4/1/22, 4:18 PM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

Discover Hungary - Szentendre

Szentendre
At the end of March, as the spring weather arrived, some participants of the Budapest Fellowship Programme and the Visiting Fellowship Programme had the opportunity to explore one of Hungary's most beloved jewel boxes: Szentendre
3/28/22, 2:42 PM

MCC’s unique talent management program in an English documentary?

Budapest
MCC’s internationally unique program is also featured in a documentary produced by the New Culture Forum with Peter Whittle.
3/21/22, 2:22 PM
Lunch Talks

How to Find a Path for Political Realism in the 21st Century?

Budapest
Our guest speaker at this week's MCC Lunch Talks was Thibaud Gibelin.
3/11/22, 11:43 AM
Election Nights

Elections in South Korea

Budapest
The latest event of the MCC Election Night series focused on the South Korean election. Renowned experts analyzed the possible outcomes of the elections, the country's political, economic and social system, as well as the past, present and future of Hungarian-South Korean relations.
3/10/22, 9:00 AM

MCC for families in Transcarpathia

In recent times, just like the whole country, Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) has also moved to help families in Transcarpathia whom the war has put into extremely difficult situation.
3/8/22, 8:34 AM
Lunch Talks

Playful Attitude in Everyday Life

Budapest
Our last guest of MCC’s Lunch Talks series was Dr. Gábor Csepregi, past president of Université de Saint-Boniface (Winnipeg) and of Dominican University College (Ottawa) MCC's visiting fellow.
3/2/22, 8:49 AM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

Discover Hungary - Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár
MCC visiting fellows and Budapest Fellows visited Székesfehérvár as part of the Discover Hungary series in February.
2/25/22, 3:48 PM
Conferences, Budapest Summit

The values we teach our children – MCC Budapest Summit 2022 a huge success

Budapest
The MCC Budapest Summit 2022, a major international conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) ended with great success. The conference was seeking to shed light on the values we teach our children. On the second day of the event - 17 February 2022 - exciting discussions and book presentations involved more than 30 speakers from Hungary and abroad and an audience of nearly 750 people. MCC, as a talent development institution aims to become the largest and most dynamic think tank in Hungary - and even in Central Europe.
2/25/22, 3:45 PM
Conferences, Budapest Summit

The first day of the Budapest Summit 2022 was a massive success

Budapest
The first day of the MCC Budapest Summit 2022, the largest international conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), was a huge success. More than 30 speakers and over 500 visitors attended the large-scale event on 16 February 2022. As a talent development institution, MCC aims to become the major and most dynamic think tank in Hungary - and even in Central Europe.
2/18/22, 10:00 AM
Budapest Lectures, Conferences, Publishing

MCC Budapest Summit 2022 - A Huge Hit

Budapest
The MCC Budapest Summit 2022, the largest international professional event organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), was a massive success. The two-day conference focused on the topic “On the Values We Teach Our Children.” This year MCC hosted more than 30 guest speakers who shared their insights in roundtable discussions. More than 750 people attended the conference to listen to the internationally renowned experts from around the world.
2/9/22, 9:44 AM
Lunch Talks

How to Have Impossible Conversations?

Budapest
Dr. Peter Boghossian, participant of the MCC Visiting Fellowship Program was the guest of this year’s third MCC Lunch Talks event. He gave a presentation on methods of conversation and debate between people of different views.
1/25/22, 8:31 AM
Budapest Fellowship Program, Visiting Fellowship Program

To Discover Esztergom

Esztergom
Budapest Fellows and MCC visiting fellows spent a meaningful day at the formal coronation city Esztergom this week to get acquainted with one of the most important historical cities in Hungary.
1/20/22, 12:03 PM
Ambassador Talks

Getting to know each other and engaging in discussion on sensitive issues is crucial

Budapest
Our Ambassador Talks series continues in 2022, with H. E. Pascal Andréani, Ambassador of the French Republic to Hungary, as our guest at the season opening event.
12/15/21, 8:33 AM
Ambassador Talks

Opening to our neighbors

Budapest
12/10/21, 1:03 PM
MCC Feszt

Next summer, MCC will "give a voice to talent" again

This year's three-day MCC Feszt was a huge success, so Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will organize its one-of-a-kind talent festival again next year, in the historic but also vibrant Esztergom between 28-30 July 2022.
12/9/21, 8:31 AM
Ambassador Talks

Miklós Halmai, Ambassador of Hungary to Portugal paid a visit to MCC

Budapest
The guest of our Ambassador Talks event was Miklós Halmai, Ambassador of Hungary to Portugal.
11/22/21, 3:10 PM
Publishing

Environmentalism is the new religion - The Hungarian translation of Michael Shellenberger's bestseller presented at the MCC

The recently published Hungarian translation of Michael Shellenberger's bestseller Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All was presented in the framework of an exclusive discussion organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Climate Policy Institute. Michael Shellenberger is an environmental activist, one of the most influential, multiple award-winning environmental writers in the United States who is also an expert for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Shellenberger's book has been translated into sixteen languages so far. The Hungarian edition was now published in collaboration with Gingko Kiadó and MCC Press and launched on 15 November.
11/18/21, 8:26 AM
German-Hungarian Institute for European Cooperation

The German edition of the book "A Thousand Years in the Middle of Europe—The Character of the Hungarian State" was presented for the first time in Germany

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium jointly organized the first presentation of the German edition of the book "A Thousand Years in the Middle of Europe—The Character of the Hungarian State" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences on 16 November 2021 in Berlin. In addition to the editors of the volume, the presentation and the subsequent panel discussion was also attended by Parliamentary State Secretary Steffen Bilger MP.
11/15/21, 2:53 PM
Conferences

MCC media conference a huge success - record attendance and exciting debates even at an international scale

Budapest
The one-of-a-kind international media conference of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) was a huge success. On the second day of the conference, nearly 20 experts gave presentations or took part in professional discussions in front of an audience of hundreds of interested people.
11/15/21, 9:01 AM
Conferences

Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age - MCC media conference aroused great interest

With the emergence of parliamentary democracies, the role of the press has fundamentally changed and the public sphere has become democratized. The advent of the internet has triggered another revolutionary change, according to the speakers on the first day of the two-day international media conference organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium. At the event, which attracted hundreds of participants and a great deal of media interest, well-known Hungarian and international journalists, editors and publishing executives shared their thoughts on the role of social media, the challenges facing the journalism profession and the different effects of digitalization.
10/29/21, 5:20 PM
Budapest Lectures

Tradition and innovation

We have to save our traditions and harmonise the traditional and modern approach in architecture - was said on the latest stage of the series of events Budapest Lectures organised by MCC where Justin Shubow American architecture critic and Stephen Sholl the visiting fellow of MCC had a conversation.
10/29/21, 1:57 PM
Leadership Academy

Calum T. M. Nicolson – We are the products, not the customers

10/27/21, 9:52 AM
School of Law, Center for Public Law

One Court, One Judge, One State, One Agent - A Look Behind the Scenes at the ECtHR

A unique roundtable discussion was organized on 25 October 2021 but the Public Law Center operating next ot the MCC Law School. Hungary's judge at the Strasbourg-seated European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Prof. Dr. Péter Paczolay, and Hungary's state agent (representing the Government), dr. Zoltán Tallódi, a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Justice talked with Dr. Márton Sulyok, the head of the Public Law Center regarding questions on the operation and processes of the ECtHR, and in terms of the day-to-day management tasks regarding concrete cases.
10/26/21, 9:44 AM
School of Economics

Searching for Secrets of the Startup Ecosystems – Study Tour of Students of the MCC School of Economics in Warsaw (October 20-23, 2021)

Why does Warsaw have the most dynamic startup ecosystem of the Visegrád Four capitals today? As is so often the case, the success is due to several factors, which is why the students of the MCC School of Economics had a rather dense program in the Polish capital.
10/22/21, 2:42 PM
Collegium Content

Scruton’s Legacy – MCC Students in Oxford

Students from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will attend a series of lectures organized in Oxford in memory of Roger Scruton, who died last January. The event includes reflections from renowned experts such as the writer and historian Tom Holland or the former British supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption.