On 15 December 2022 Antal Örkény, sociologist gave a presentation entitled "Identities and Identity Politics" at the seat of the Hungarian Europe Society. Further on at the annual meeting, István Hegedűs was elected to chairman, Emma Gothár, Erik Uszkiewicz and Zselyke Tófalvi to vice-chairpersons, Anita Bakos, Kata Nagy and Zsófia Stahl to members of the supervisory committee of HES.
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "The Future of Authoritarian Populism in Hungary and Beyond after the Hungarian Elections and the Russian Attack against Ukraine" at the conference of the Central European Political Association entitled “Democracy after coronavirus: facing new political reality” at the Congress Centre in Bled on 2 June 2022.
István Hegedűs analysed the political situation after the Hungarian parliamentary elections in Ida Politika podcast on 8 April 2022.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to the Latvian public TV about Vikor Orbán's campaign rhetoric before the Hungarian parliamentary elections on 2 and 3 April 2022.
The evaluation by István Hegedűs before the Hungarian parliamentary elections was posted by Das Progressive Zentrum on 2 April 2022.
Donald Macintyre cited the opinion of István Hegedűs on the wire-dance of Viktor Orbán's foreign policy before the Hungarian parliamentary elections in the New European on 31 March 2022.
István Hegedűs participated at the online discussion about the Hungarian parliamentary elections together with Ádám Kerpel-Fronius, a leader of Momentum Germany and Daniel Freund, Member of the European Parliament to the invitation of the international working groups of the Greens in Brandenburg on 29 March 2022.
István Hegedűs gave a presentation at a working breakfast to the invitation of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in restaurant Habel am Reichstag in Berlin on 24 March 2022 about the forthcoming Hungarian parliamentary elections.
On 20 March 2022 the Bulgarian Dnevnik published an article on the forthcoming Hungarian parliamentary elections citing the assessment by István Hegedűs.
On 28 September 2021 Carsten Q. Schneider (Professor, Department of Political Science and Research Affiliate, Democracy Institute, CEU) gave an online presentation entitled “Germany - After the Elections and Before Government Formation” to HES members.
The opinion of István Hegedűs on the local elections in Hungary was quoted in Hospodářské noviny on 15 October 2019.
The Hungarian Europe Society held an international conference supported by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit entitled "European Elections 2019 - Renewing the Political Agenda for a United Europe" on 12-13 April 2019 at the Ibis Styles Budapest Center (Rákóczi út 58, H-1074 Budapest).
The Hungarian Europe Society held an international conference supported by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit entitled "European Elections 2019 - Renewing the Political Agenda for a United Europe" on 12-13 April 2019 at the Ibis Styles Budapest Center (Rákóczi út 58, H-1074 Budapest).
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "Facing the European Parliamentary Elections: Hungary and the European Union" at the Faculty of Social Sciences at ELTE University on 10 April 2019.
István Hegedűs' opinion about the Hungarian parliamentary elections was asked by Pravda from Bratislava on 31 March 2018 and was also published in a longer blog post by Andrej Matisak in English two days before.
