The European Union Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) is organizing a professional roundtable discussion on the challenges of economic policy, with a particular focus on the perspectives arising from Hungary’s membership in the European Union. The event is inspired by the recent publication of Systems Come. Do They Go? by Péter Ákos Bod. The discussion will take place on Monday, 20 July 2026, at 4:00 p.m. at Europe Point in Budapest (1024 Budapest, Lövőház u. 35.).
The event will also be streamed live on the HEA’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teNZrcA8z2k.
The participants in the roundtable discussion will be Péter Ákos Bod, Professor Emeritus at Corvinus University of Budapest and Vice President of the HEA; Péter Halmai, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Ludovika University of Public Service and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and President of the HEA’s Section for Economic Policy and Economic Theory; Radován Jelasity, President of the Hungarian Banking Association and Chairman and CEO of Erste Bank Hungary; and Magdolna Sass, Director of the Institute of World Economics at the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies. The discussion will be moderated by Gábor Iván, Director at the Council of the European Union and President of the HEA’s European Union Section.
Due to the limited seating capacity of the venue, in-person attendance is subject to prior registration. Registration is available via the online form at https://forms.gle/PKbG1PNHQpFanNR18 until midnight on 16 July.