Launch event · Budapest, 26 November 2026
The Reconstruction Agenda: A Classical Liberal Blueprint for Post-Orbán Hungary
A reform map for the next eighteen months, presented by KEFIM and EPICENTER at Corvinus University of Budapest. Keynote by Tom G. Palmer.
- Date
- Thursday, 26 November 2026Public launch 18:00 to 21:00
- Venue
- Corvinus University of BudapestBuilding E
- Organised by
- KEFIM and EPICENTERCo-hosted by Széchenyi István Szakkollégium (SZISZ)
- Keynote
- Tom G. PalmerIn English
Open registration. Panels in Hungarian; keynote and presentation in English. Recorded for podcast and YouTube.
Why a Greek think tank is in Budapest
A change of government is only the beginning. The real question is whether the instruments of bad governance are dismantled or inherited.
KEFIM presented Agenda 2021, a reform programme for Greece after years of populist government. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, then leader of the opposition, delivered the keynote at its launch.
Within months he became Prime Minister, and Agenda 2021 became the reference point for the reform programme that followed.
Hungary now stands at the same point. Following the April 2026 elections and the Tisza supermajority, the country’s institutional architecture will be rewritten within the next twelve to eighteen months.
Together with EPICENTER, KEFIM has documented what sixteen years of Fidesz rule did to Hungary’s institutions, and now presents a classical liberal blueprint for the road ahead.
Two papers, one project
Published May 2026
The Autocracy Playbook
Orbán’s Hungary and the price of institutional capture
How sixteen years of Fidesz government captured and eroded Hungary’s core democratic institutions and economic freedoms, tracked from 2009 to 2023 and benchmarked against the EU average.
Launching 26 November 2026
The Reconstruction Agenda
A classical liberal blueprint for post-Orbán Hungary
A reform map and recovery scenarios for rebuilding political and economic freedom: courts, media, civil society and the cardinal laws; property rights, central bank independence, regulation, procurement and fiscal discipline.
The paper will be available here on launch day.
Both papers are published jointly by KEFIM and EPICENTER.
Programme
Thursday, 26 November 2026, Building E, Corvinus University of Budapest.
Speakers
Further panellists will be announced here as they are confirmed.
Join us in Budapest
When
Thursday, 26 November 2026Doors open 17:30, programme 18:00 to 21:00
Where
Corvinus University of BudapestBuilding E
Languages
Hungarian and EnglishPanels in Hungarian; keynote and presentation in English
Registration
Register for the launchFree, open to the public. Seats are limited.
Questions about the event: info@kefim.org
Organised by KEFIM, the Center for Liberal Studies, and EPICENTER, the European Policy Information Center. Co-hosted by Széchenyi István Szakkollégium, the Corvinus student college founded in 1987.
