The Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and OKO.press cordially invite you to the online discussion „Progress or deception? Hungary, Poland, and the rule of law” inaugurating a series of debates on the rule of law with Polish and foreign experts and defenders of democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

 

How does the European Union respond to the rule of law crises in Hungary and Poland? Is it using all available means? How and why are the governments in Budapest and Warsaw reacting to this? Who holds the stronger cards, Orbán or Kaczyński? Are they playing by the same rules and for similar stakes? How does the geopolitical situation affect all this? What can we, as citizens, do to ensure that democracy based on the rule of law in which our rights are protected ultimately prevails in this game?

 

Speakers:
Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka
Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
Daniel Hegedüs
Christophe Hillion

The conversation will be moderated by Anna Wójcik.

 

Join us on Wednesday 14 December between 11:00 and 12:00 on Zoom.

 

We will be speaking in English.

 

Register right away!

 

The series of talks is produced with the support of the Active Citizens Fund – National program, which is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the so-called Norwegian and EEA Funds.

Speakers:

Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka

is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and a lecturer at the Jean Monnet Chair of the University of Wrocław. Currently, she is a fellow at Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique in Paris. She headed the EU Programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2016-2018).

Barbara Grabowska-Moroz

is a research fellow at CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary) and Re:Constitution program fellow. In 2018-2021 she was a postdoc researcher in the RECONNECT project (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). In 2010-2018 she worked as a lawyer and project coordinator in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland), and as a legal expert in FRANET (multidisciplinary research network of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency).

Daniel Hegedüs

is a senior fellow and a senior program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin. He writes and speaks extensively on populism and democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe, and the European and foreign affairs of the Visegrad countries. He is frequently quoted in outlets such as AFP, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Euractiv, EU Observer and Der Spiegel.

Christophe Hillion

is Professor of European Law at the University of Oslo, research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI, senior adviser at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) in Stockholm and Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. He has published on constitutional law and on the external action of the European Union.
Prof. Hillion will be visiting professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw soon.

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