About Us

Main goal: to increase the number of Hungarian EU-professionals at the EU-institutions and at the Hungarian public administration as well, who

• are equally committed to the future of Europe and Hungary,
• possess good EU policy knowledge,
• are  fluent in foreign languages.

• Whose applications do we accept?
  • Hungarian citizens
  • Civil servants with BA/MA degree (who have been working in public administration for at least 1 year) or
  • who are working outside the public administration with BA-/MA-degree under the age of 35 and
  • graduate university students.
  • high-level of English (knowledge of an one other official EU-language is an advantage)
  • successful fulfilment of the selection process (written part and orientation interview).
• Admission requirement:
  • A high level of English, knowledge of an additional EU official language is an advantage
  • Successful fulfilment of the selection process (written part and orientation interview)

• EU law,
• History of the EU and its institutions,
• Administration and functioning of EU institutions,
• EU-policies and decision-making,
• Differentiated integration in theory and in practice,
• EU communication,
• Current economic challenges of the EU,
• EU Diplomacy,
• EU-policy of Hungary – efficient lobbying,
• Focusing on Climate Change – Green policy of the EU,
• Functioning of the European Parliament in practice – lobbying in the EU,
• Representation of national positions,
• EU-policies of the Member States,
• EU professional language.

In the frame of the conversation series called “Club Europe” we regularly provide the opportunity for current and graduated participants (Alumni) of the Europe of Nations Career Program to exchange ideas on current EU-affairs with high-level domestic and foreign guests experienced in EU politics.
Guests of the Club Europe so far were:

• Íñigo Mendez de Vigo former Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union;
• Jean-Louis Bourlanges, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly;
• György Fóris, Hungarian EU expert, founder of Bruxinfo;
• Ursula Plassnik former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, former Austrian ambassador to Paris and to Bern;
• Rocco Buttiglione, former Minister for EU-policies, nominated for a post as European Commissioner;
• Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation;
• Christian Schmidt, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Pascal Boniface, founding Director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), Paris;
• Noëlle Lenoir, Former Minister for European Affairs of France, Former memberof the French Constitutional Council;
• Gertrud Ingestad, Director-General for Human Resources and Security, European Commission.