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June 24, 2015
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Founding School of Public Policy (SPP) Dean Wolfgang Reinicke opened the School’s Annual Conference by highlighting the key questions that the speakers and panelists would be addressing over the next two days: Is democracy discredited and increasingly neglected around the world? If so, how and why – and what can be done about it?

June 23, 2015
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Twenty-two students from 11 universities traveled to Budapest, Hungary last week to participate in the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance (OSIRG) – an experience that Rumbidzai Masango (MPA ’15), one of last year’s students, described as “mind-blowing.”

June 10, 2015
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Attending the Global Policy Academy’s course on European migration policy, Aleppo Project fellow AlHakam Shaar led a discussion with his classmates and asylum seekers at the Bicske Reception Center, located about 40 kilometers outside of Budapest, Hungary.

June 9, 2015
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During a panel discussion at the School of Public Policy at CEU on June 5, a distinguished group of experts discussed two current court cases in Germany and Hungary: the ongoing NSU (National Socialist Underground) trial in Munich, and the 2011-13 trial in Budapest that led to the conviction in August 2013 of Zsolt Petö and Arpad and Istvan Kiss for the murder of six Roma between March 2008 and August 2009. The panel was moderated by Karoly Bard, professor and chair of the Human Rights Program at CEU’s Legal Studies Department.