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English: Live on the 16th of May, 2014. Budapest, Academy of Sciences, Reading Room. Mathias Corvinus Collegium. The financial crisis has generated fundamental questions about the EU governance, as well as the the future shape and direction of the European Union. With the upcoming European elections likely to become a battle for the future of the EU itself, the conference aimed to critically examine the key issues the EU ha to face at this crucial time providing views from London to Budapest. Csák János (former Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom), Ferenc Kumin (Deputy State Secretary for International Communication), John O'Sullivan (Director of the Danube Institute, Director of the 21st Century Initiatives, Senior Fellow at the National Review Institute in Washington), John Stevans (Former Member of the European Parliament and Vice Chairman of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee), Brendan Donnelly (Director of the Federal Trust, former Member of the European Parliament), Nick Thorpe (Central European correspondent for the BBC).,Tombor András, Founder of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

Nick Thorpe began reporting from Budapest in February 1986, the first western journalist to be based in Central Europe. For the BBC, the Independent, and the Observer, he covered the dying years of central european occupied countries. He witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, the transformation of nonviolent to violent resistance in Kosovo. As the BBC’s Central Europe correspondent he authored the book ‘The Unfinished Revolution’ presenting his personal view, from ground level, of a revolution which never quite finished. Of how it re-emerges, in demonstrations and uprisings, on a regular basis. How the demons of the past – of collaboration, of unsatisfied national identity, above all of poverty – continue to haunt the present. With the victory of democracy in Central Europe in 1989, the his work was only just beginning. Thorpe guided readers through the dramas and traumas of the 1990s, the years of ‘jungle capitalism’, through a taxi blockade in Hungary, and the miners’ invasion of Bucharest. The book concludes in 2009, with the impact of the crisis of capitalism, 20 years after the crisis of communism. ©© Derzsi Elekes Andor, Budapest, 2014, You are authorised to use these photos and vids under Creative Commons – even for commercial, for profit purposes. Photos must be attributed to Derzsi Elekes Andor. All of the photos and vids in the Metapolisz DVD line are under Creative Commons and can be used even for commercial – for profit – purposes. Recommended Citation Derzsi Elekes Andor: Metapolisz DVD line http://nektar.oszk.hu/en/manifestation/2623913 Sources: conference flyer, ’89: The Unfinished Revolution, by Nick Thorpe

Paperback, 320 pages, 16 colour plates, Reportage Press (9 November 2009), ISBN-10: 1906702179, ISBN-13: 978-1906702175