Prior to the regular TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conferences, TEPSA has a tradition of formulating recommendations to present to the incoming Council Presidency. At the Hungarian Pre-Presidency Conference on 13-14 June 2024, TEPSA presented key recommendations to the incoming Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. These recommendations are formulated by experts from the TEPSA network, without necessarily representing the views of TEPSA or its Member Institutes.
In addition to the introduction penned by TEPSA Executive Director Mariam Khotenashvili and Board Members Nicoletta Pirozzi (Istituto Affari Internazionali) and Richard Youngs (Carnegie Europe), the Hungarian Presidency was presented with three detailed recommendations:
- “Budgetary Conditionality: be careful what you wish for”, by Saskia Hollander, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute and Louise van Schaik, Head of Unit EU & Global Affairs, Clingendael Institute;
- “The Future of Cohesion Policy: what needs to be taken into account?”, by Jakša Puljiz, Head of Department for European Integration, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO);
- “Europe Should Focus on Building Genuine Migration Partnerships”, by Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform (CER).
“Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) between July and December 2024 will be a challenging one. The Member State that has been most openly confrontational towards many EU policies, positions and new cooperation proposals, will take over the presidential baton just as the Union moves into a new legislative cycle. In the early stages of the Hungarian presidency there will be relatively few legislative proposals left on the agenda as the current term reaches its end. The European Council will have adopted the Strategic Agenda 2024-2029 in June, just prior to Hungary beginning its six-month presidency. Political negotiations will be starting in the wake of the June elections to the European Parliament. In this political interregnum, the focus will be on setting priorities for the incoming Commission and preparing the ground for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).”
Read the Recommendations from members of the TEPSA network to the Hungarian Presidency by clicking the link at the top right side of this page, and to read them in Hungarian, click here.
