The Budapest Forum organized a two-day, English-language international conference entitled "Building Sustainable Democracies" by the Budapest City Council, Political Capital, which is closely linked to the left, and the CEU Democracy Institute.
The purpose of the forum, held by speakers representing the idea of an open society marked by the name of György Soros, was to "bring Budapest back onto the progressive intellectual map of the region".
This year's Budapest Forum event focused on cities, local initiatives and building sustainable democracies. Among the invitees was journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, who has been painting the Orbán government, elected three times by two-thirds, as a putschist one-party dictatorship in the domestic and international left-liberal media .
They also invited Vera Jourová, who attacks Hungary in matters of the rule of law, and is the vice-president responsible for values and transparency of the European Commission.
Among the speakers was Timothy Garton Ash from Oxford, who said that the threat to the EU is not their exit, but the Hungarians staying in, and Charles Gati, a confidant of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who already proposed a five-point plan to the left in 2012. to overthrow Viktor Orbán's government.
According to the invitation, left-wing mayors and deputy mayors also participated in the conference in person or virtually, representing Amsterdam, Bratislava, Warsaw, Prague, Ankara, Milan, Barcelona, Paris, London, Vienna and Los Angeles, among others.
The opening lecture of the international conference held in the Budapest building of the Central European University was given by Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest, who, by his own admission, has a hyper-passive knowledge of English.
Among the supporters of the event, the Open Society Foundations linked to György Soros were prominent.
Source: Hungarian Nation
