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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Environmental Economics: New President and Secretary
Mihály Dombi, Senior Research Fellow at the Budapest University of Economics and Business, has been elected as the new Chair of the HEA Environmental Economics Section. During the online election of officers, voting members also elected a new Section Secretary: this...
Wage Transparency in the European Union – summary
Wage Transparency in the European Union — under this title, the Labour Affairs Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA), together with the journal Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review), organised an online professional conference on 27 May 2026. The event...
Trends and Megatrends Transforming the Future of SMEs
The newly established Business Development Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) held its first professional event on Wednesday, 17 June 2026, entitled “The Impact of Trends and Megatrends on Business Development in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.”...

