The Institute for Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Centre for Minority Issues agree on a Memorandum of Understanding.
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1 September 2026
A chapter by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt, Eszter Neumann, Ildikó Zakariás, and Csilla Zsigmond, entitled Modalities of Municipalism in Refugee Solidarity in Hungary: Assisting the Displaced from Ukraine, Post-February 2022, has been published in the volume Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015 (Springer, 2026). The full volume is available open access.
31 August 2026
Pál Nagy’s work, produced as part of the institute’s research programme, has been published: The Roma Population of Hungary and Transylvania in the 18th and 19th Centuries. National Institute for Minority Studies – Kriterion Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2026, 304 pp. The table of contents can be found here.
14 August 2026
A minority rights case law database compiled by Zsolt Körtvélyesi is now also available in our Institute’s Digital Reading Room. The database features selected minority rights cases from Slovakia and Hungary concerning the Hungarian and Roma minorities. It processes judgments from official court databases, providing summaries, English translations, and related cases. The database was developed as part of the research project 'MINOTEE: Minority Rights – Towards Effective European Enforcement' supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Programme.
10 August 2026
The electoral database elaborated within the project titled “Parliamentary Representation of Minorities in International Comparison: Descriptive or Substantive Representation?” (NKFIH K143523, 2022–2027) contains data on the number of voters registered as members of national minorities in Hungarian parliamentary elections, as well as the number of voters who cast valid ballots for the lists of national minority self-governments, broken down by national minority, county, and municipality for the period 2014–2026 (available HERE). Due to changes in certain electoral district boundaries over time, the same database is also available separately by electoral district for the 2014–2022 period (HERE) and for the recent 2026 elections (HERE).
10 August 2026
A review published in the Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen praises the work of Ágnes Tóth, Deutsche in Ungarn 1950–1970. Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2025).