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2010. February 10.
The Accession Process: Adaption to the Requirements of the Acquis and of the Society
"EU membership provides a set of advantages in political, economic, cultural and even security terms."

2010. January 19.
The Trio Programme and the Water Shortage in Europe
Given its strategic location, Hungary is uniquely placed to put this issue on the European agenda.

2010. January 15.
MEPs scrutinise the new Commissioner nominees
Four MEPs Leader of the British Labour MEPs, Glenis Willmott, Geoffrey van Orden from the British Conservatives, German Liberal MEP, Alexander Lambsdorff, Hungarian centre right MEP, György Schöpflin, join Shirin Wheeler to discuss the hearings of the Commissioners designate.

2009. December 18.
Budget debate
Many of the participants in this debate have spoken about specific issues affecting the budget and these are of great importance. For my part, I would like to look at the big picture.

2009. December 16.
Georgia: Test Case of EU
The EU's relationship with Georgia raises far-reaching questions about what the EU is and what it aspires to. In many respects, this relationship is likely to be a test case of Europe's commitment to its proclaimed values of solidarity, human rights and democracy.

2009. October 22.
Promoting European Coherence
The European External Action service is, without any doubt, a potentially major element in the promotion of coherence in the EU’s relations with the rest of the world, says György Schöpflin

2009. October 21.
Budget 2010
It has become quite evident in the last few years that the institutions of the European Union are much less familiar to the citizens of Europe than should be the case, says György Schöpflin

2009. September 17.
Do we really need the North Stream?
Written statement on the Baltic Sea Strategy by György Schöpflin

2009. June 23.
"1989 with 20/20 hindsight"
The collapse came unexpectedly and neither the West nor the communist elites were prepared for the transformation. There was no intellectual input, just bureaucratic regulation, with some support from Western political parties, but the Social Democrats were more complicit with communism than was evident at the time.

2009. April 02.
"For Russia the EU is the problem"
"For Russia the EU is the problem, its success is a puzzle and, above all, it is an obstacle to the maximisation of Russia's power" - Prof. Schöpflin sad at the plenary debate on 1st of April.

2009. March 26.
"Azerbaijan is the potential energy supplier, in the simplest terms"
It should not just be the EU that Azerbaijan should be lobbing, but should also provide information to the world media - which is not happening. I don’t know for example whether Western knowledge might help Azerbaijan to overcome this situation. For the time being Azerbaijani case is presented rather weakly - Prof. Schöpflin sad in an interwiev with Saadat Kadyrova

2009. March 24.
One minute speech - Heiligenkreuz incinerator
In his one minute speech on 23rd March Prof. György Schöpflin MEP spoke against the incinerator planed on the Hungarian Austrian border, in Heiligenkreuz.

2009. January 14.
The Slovak-Hungarian 'cold war'
It seldom makes the headlines, but to anyone who follows these things, it's obvious - relations between Slovakia and Hungary could hardly be worse. It's no exaggeration to call it a kind of cold war.

2008. December 18.
The dangerous politics of market radicalism
The crisis of 2008 is a consequence of the pervasive impact of market-driven ideology and policy on political, economic and social life across the globe. The profound consequences - being felt severely in countries such as Hungary - demand a wholesale rethinking of the role of the state in modern societies.

2008. December 15.
CFSP and its global context
You can read here the Free Europe Discussions'programme about the CFSP and its global context, György Schöpflins' opening speech and the concept of Fidesz about the CFSP entitled "Fidesz’s Vision for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: “A Strong Europe, A Thriving Nation".

2008. October 15.
Minorities, citizenship and Europe
At the heart of the problem of minorities is the failure of democratic theory and forms of citizenship to develop an adequate response to collectivities which have a different ethnic identity to that of the ethnic majority.

2008. October 09.
One minute speech about the symbols of the European Union
György Schöpflin's one minute speech at the plenary sitting on 9. October on the Carnero-report concerning the use of the symbols in the European Union

2008. October 09.
The Town of Kőszeg and its Micro-region
Mr György Schöpflin cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of the Exhibition "The Town of Kőszeg and its Micro-region" on 14th October 2008 at 6 P.M. European Parliament ASP "Espace Rdch Couloir" level 0.

2008. September 04.
Former Soviet states also have inalienable rights

2008. September 02.
Russia and the West Are a World Apart
The events of the last few weeks have made it clearer than ever that Russia has no place in Europe.

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