Eszter Farkas and Anna Ujlaki's report has been published in the volume "Changing Migration Patterns: A Comparative Study on the Movement of People and the Impact for Countries in the Region", edited by Ninna Mörner. The title of our researchers' report is "Between Welcome and Rejection: Hungary’s Overpoliticized Immigration Narrative."

A new article authored by Ákos Holányi, Junior Research Fellow at our Institute, has been published in the Journal of European Integration (Q1) under the title "Unpolitics, domestic pressures, or else? The opposition of Visegrád Group countries to the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum."

The article titled "Variations in school social work. Results from a Hungarian qualitative study", authored by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow was published in the journal Socio.hu Social Science Review.

Csaba Molnár has been awarded the 2025 Aurél Kolnai Prize. This honour, given for the most outstanding political science publication of the year, was presented to our Institute's Research Fellow at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA) for his book "The Weight of Weightlessness" ("A súlytalanság súlya").

The study titled "Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis" authored by Áron Hajnal and Attila Bartha, our Institute's researchers, has been published in the journal "Political Studies Review" (Q1).

The 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association was held on May 29-30, 2025, hosted this year by the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science. The Annual Conference is the primary forum for the political science community of Hungary, offering an opportunity for reflection, the evaluation of past achievements and the presentation of the latest trends in the field.

On April 15, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science, in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity Hungary, organized a film screening and discussion on the intersection of energy poverty and gender inequality, as part of the WISE project.

As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) project, colleagues from our institute participated in two international online events in March 2025. The events explored energy poverty, the right to energy, and the situation of women in Europe.

The PLEDGE consortium, with members from the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science, focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their impact on democratic politics, with the aim of strengthening societal and political resilience.

On April 10, 2025, researchers from the University of Granada, Lilian Bermejo-Luque and Javier Rodríguez-Alcázar, participated in a joint online workshop with members of the Political normativity project at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science.