Council of Europe Day

Time

Program

Technical details

10:00 am

Welcoming remarks

Mr Ferenc Kalmár, Special envoy of the Minister for Developing Neighbourhood Policy of Hungary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Mr Bálint Molnár, Director, European Youth Centre in Budapest

Mr Björn Berge, Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe

Opening ceremony

Mr Péter Sztáray, State Secretary for Security Policy and Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

Mr Zsolt Németh, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Hungarian National Assembly

Public to the press

10:30 am

Keynote presentations

Dr. Wolfram Bechtel, Secretary of the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI), Council of Europe

Dr. Adrienn Tóth-Ferenci, Hungarian delegate in the CDADI

First panel: opportunities for the political participation of Hungarian youth in the neighbouring countries

Participants:

Mr László Gubík, Association for Common Goals, Via Nova – Slovakia

Mr Dávid Simon, Youth section of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association – Ukraine

Ms Dóra Szilágyi, Vice-president, Youth section of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania

Mr Attila Edmár, Hungarian Youth Conference – Hungary  

Moderator:

Dr. Gergő Kocsis, Head of UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

12:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm

Keynote presentations:

Ms Pia Šlogar, co-chair of the Programming Committee on Youth, and External Representative of Youth of European Nationalities (YEN) and member of the Advisory Council on Youth

Mr Imre Ritter, Chairman of the Committee on National Minorities in Hungary, Hungarian National Assembly

Second panel: Political participation of national minority youth in Hungary

Participants:

Ms Blanka Jordán, President, German Youth Association in Hungary  

Mr Milán Kovács, Croatian National Self-Government in Hungary

Mr Bence Szeljak, President, Slovak Youth Association in Hungary

Mr Domokos Péter Kovács, presidential representative of the National Youth Council

Moderator:

Mr Richárd Tircsi, Head of Department, Department of Nationalities, State Secretariat for Church and Nationality Relations, Prime Minister's Office

3:30 pm

Closing remarks

Mr Ferenc Kalmár, Special envoy of the Minister for Developing Neighbourhood Policy of Hungary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade