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IEO: Hungarian Individual and Team Gold
Bendegúz Pál Ruskal, a graduating student at ELTE Radnóti Miklós High School in Budapest, won a gold medal after finishing in 9th place at the international final of the Economics Olympiad in Olympia, Greece, on Thursday. In addition, the five-member Hungarian team...
See You in Eger in One Month!
Exactly one month from now, on September 10, 2026, the 64th Itinerant Congress of Economists will kick off in Eger with keynote addresses by Mihály Varga, Governor of the central bank, and András Kármán, Minister of Finance. The Hungarian Economic Association (HEA),...
New HEA President in Vas County
The Vas County Organisation of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) has elected a new President: Imre Varga, Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). The voting members of the county...
Occupational Safety and Health in the EU
The Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association organized an online professional event entitled "Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union" on 11 June 2026. The speakers at the event were Péter Nesztinger, Head of the Department of Occupational...
In Memoriam Béla Kádár
At the age of 92, on 8 July 2026, Béla Kádár, a Széchenyi Prize-winning economist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Lifetime President of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), passed away. Béla Kádár was born in Pécs in 1934. He began his...
HEA: a programme-rich first half year
The Hungarian Economics Association wrapped up a programme-rich first half of the year: in the first six months alone, we organised no fewer than 64 professional events, conferences, lectures and roundtable discussions. HEA elected a new president and...
András Balatoni receives the Béla Krekó Award
András Balatoni, a board member of the Economic Policy and Economic Theory Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and Director responsible for economic forecasts and analyses at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the central bank of Hungary, was awarded the Béla...
Deputy State Secretary from HEA Trade Section
Tamás Kozák, President of the Trade Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Economics and Business, and former Secretary General of the National Trade Association, will assume the position of Deputy State...
HEA Blog has been launched
As a result of the cooperation between the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) and Portfolio.hu, a leading financial and economic news portal, the HEA Blog has been launched on the Portfolio website! The subpage available directly at https://www.portfolio.hu/mkt, now...
Labour Market in the Border Region – Summary
The Hungarian-Slovak border region’s labour market situation was the title of an online conference organised by the Labour Affairs Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) on 4 June 2026. At the event, Bence Varga, a PhD student at the Department of...