INVITATION TO THE THIRD EES CONFERENCE
THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY: OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITS FOR THE NEW MEMBER STATES
Date: 20th OCTOBER 2005. 9.30-16.00
Place:
Hotel Novotel, Budapest (1088. Budapest, Rákóczi út 43-45)
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INVITATION TO THE SECOND EES CONFERENCE
The European Employment Strategy - the Reform of the Coordination Process of the Employment Policy in Hungary
Within the frame of the project 'European Employment Strategy - Ways of Adaptability in New Member States. The case of Hungary' supported by the European Commission DG Employment and Social Affairs the second conference organized, similarly to the first one, in partnership with the Hungarian Ministry of Employment and Labour will be held under the title 'The European Employment Strategy - the Reform of the Coordination Process of the Employment Policy in Hungary' More...
INVITATION TO THE FIRST EES CONFERENCE:
The European Employment Strategy and the Employment Policy in Hungary
Within the frame of the project 'European Employment Strategy - Ways of Adaptability in New Member States. The case of Hungary'supported by the European Commission DG Employment and Social Affairs the first conference organized in partnership with the Hungarian Ministry of Employment and Labour will be held under the title 'The European Employment Strategy and the Employment Policy in Hungary'. More...
Changes in the Board of Directors
We inform the visitors of our website that there are two new members in the Board of Directors of the Foundation from 2004. As Dr. András Köves Member of the Board resigned last year, his position was taken over by dr. Éva Palócz. The new Board of Directors...
In 2001 as well as in 2002 the KOPINT-DATORG Foundation for Economic Research participates in several economic research projects sponsored by the National Research Development Program. One of them is the project titled:
International environment and internal pre-conditions of Hungary's catching up with Europe
Since 1997, after a period of depression following the first years of transition, rapid economic growth has taken place in Hungary. Catching up with (Western-) Europe, closing up within a reasonable frame of time to the level of productivity, as well as of living standards has been regarded as a national objective. The availability of this is closely linked to Hungary's membership within the European Union. To put it differently, our traditional backwardness can be worked down in the best way by becoming a member of the EU. This is a task to be mastered within a couple of decades, the outside and inside preconditions of which show a continuous change, and related uncertainties have rather deepened by the milleneum. Thus in the period of catching up, both the international economic environment, as well as the economic policy approaches might show fundamental changes in several respects. The research to be done aprroaches several respects of these possible changes in the course of six, separate thematic studies:
- Internationalisation and globalisation
- The European Union before and after enlargement
- Central and East-european countires after transition
- Hungary's foreign trade relations with the Central- and East-European countries
- FDI and competitiveness
- Dual economy or catching up and integratuion in Europe?
Although the issue of catching up with western-Europe had arisen on several occasions in the course of Hungary's history, it seems that, by 2000 its prepaparation has become an urgent an indispensable task.
The above project tries to give a comprehensive analysis on the trends of changes, needs of adjustments limiting possibilities of social and economic development of Hungary. In the course of the three-year research work we wish to publish six papers, each of which is the result of independent research work. One of the topics is globalisation becoming of increasing importance in the course of the last decades, interpreted as a key-term comprising internationational economic relations and international policy issues. Adjustments to the challenge of globalisation is considered as a measure of the capability of individual states (governments). Another field of research is the issue of the European Union and enlargement, where regional disparities, chances to cope with the peripheriality within an enlarged European Union will be analysed, as well as the capability of maintaining operability within an EU of 25 or 27. Two of the studies focus on the world outside the EU, therein in the first line with Central and East-european countries, their chances of combatting their economic backwardness, as well as with the future of Hungray's relationship to this part of the world. Two further studies are concerned with problems of the Hungarian economy: one of them tires to analyse consequences of FDI on Hungary's international competitiveness, whilst the other focuses on the analysis of regional differences within the country and their consequences on chances of catching up. |
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