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January 11, 2016
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Professor of Public Policy Nick Sitter spoke with NRK TV on January 7 about the state of Hungarian right-wing parties. Read excerpts from his interview below. You can also watch it here starting at 15:40 (in Norwegian).

What are the common aspects of PiS and Fidesz?

January 5, 2016
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During a Global Policy Academy course on legal empowerment, Yasmin Sooka, George Soros Visiting Chair and executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights, made a presentation about community-based dispute resolution in South Africa with her colleagues Bricks Mkholo and Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo.

January 4, 2016
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"Taxation of profits should take place where the economic activities generating those profits are carried out, and where value is created," said Vienna University of Economics and Business Assistant Professor Rita Szudoczky. She explained that this is the language used to explain the primary purpose of the G20/OECD project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).

December 11, 2015
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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes the pictures you don't see are worth even more. That was one of the messages that SPP Assistant Professor Dan Large shared during his presentation as part of the CEU Africa Research Group Seminar on December 9. Large contrasted the images surrounding the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) in Delhi in October 2015, and the 6th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Johannesburg just two months later.