Európai Föderalisták Uniója - Magyarország Egyesület
UEF Hungary was established in 2013. As a part of a pan-European federalist civil movement and as a cross-parties association, UEF Hungary brings together those Hungarian and European citizens who are ready to strive for building up a federal Europe. UEF Hungary provides a common platform for those Hungarian and European citizens who can and will engage themselves for democracy, and who are ready to create and contribute to contructive discussions on the topics of federalism.
President and/or Secretary General
President, Eszter Nagy
The main goal of UEF Hungary is to stimulate the debate on major issues and challenges related to an ever-closer European integration through conferences, seminars, training programs. More specifically, this imply:
- Representing the basic European values in Hungary and representing the Hungarian perspective in discussions on European level within the network of the Union of European Federalists,
- Organizing forums, participating at debates and representing the Hungarian federalists in political events, meetings of civil groups and reaching out to the media, in order to raise awareness on the importance of European integration and inform about federalist goals;
- Giving lectures in schools and universities on the role of the EU in the world, on European citizenship, on European governance, and on new global challenges such as the environment, energy security, common security policy, etc.;
- Strengthening the section organizationally and engaging political actors overarching political divisions at local level;
- Meeting the aspirations of citizens and civil society in order to encourage their active contribution to the "European project";
- Following closely EU related news and taking a stance on current issues by producing position papers, press releases, articles and analysis in the traditional and social media alike, informing the public via the website, via Twitter UEF Hungary and Facebook (Európai Föderalisták Uniója Magyarország);
- Reaching out and creating synergies with other civil society organizations and all kind of political parties working towards a more integrated Europe.
