Migration Conference 2019
MCC Budapest Summit on Migration
Without a doubt one of the most crucial questions influencing the destiny of 21st century Europe is how to address migration.
MCC’s Budapest Summit on Migration is a ground-breaking initiative, aiming to bring together an elite circle of former and current decision makers, diplomats, academics as well as influencers, media and public figures from all around the globe.
22 March 2019
13:00
– 14:00
registration
14:00
– 16:15
Section 1
Migration as the decisive challenge of the 21st century
Migration as the decisive challenge of the 21st century
16:40
– 19:55
Section 2
Social, Economic and Climate Reasons Behind Migration
Social, Economic and Climate Reasons Behind Migration
20:15
– 21:45
Debate: THW introduce zero tolerance immigration policy.
23 March 2019
9:30
– 12:25
Section 1
Active and former politicians
Active and former politicians
12:25
– 17:00
Section 2
Long Term Social, Economic and General Effects of Migration
Long Term Social, Economic and General Effects of Migration
17:20
– 19:05
Section 3
A Challenge of Our Civilisation and the Future of the EU
A Challenge of Our Civilisation and the Future of the EU
24 March 2019
9:30
– 9:50
Keynote speech
9:50
– 12:55
Section 1
Security Challenges of Migration and the Importance of Borders
Security Challenges of Migration and the Importance of Borders
13:55
– 17:05
Section 2
Possible Solutions to Manage Migration
Possible Solutions to Manage Migration
18:00
– 20:00
Debate: THBT Sharia law is irreconcilable with democracy.
March 22 (Friday)
Mr Kenneth S. Abramowitz – President and Founder of SaveTheWest.com, a Co-founder and Managing General Partner of NGN CapitalMs Ayaan Hirsi Ali – founding president of AHA foundation, scholar at Harvard and Stanford University
Prof. James Allan – Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia
Fr. John Bogna Bakeni – Secretary General of the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri, Nigeria
Rev. Fr. Christopher Bologo – Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria
P. Prof. Waldemar Cisło – Polish Catholic priest, professor at Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Prof. Dr. Tamás Dezső – Professor of History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at Eötvös Loránd University and scientific counsellor, Migration Research Institute
Dr Rachel Ehrenfeld – Founder and President of the American Center for Democracy
H.E. Mr Gergely Gulyás – Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office of Hungary
Mr Kishore Jayabalan – Director of Rome-based Instituto Acton
Dr Roman Joch – Executive Director of Czech Občanský Institut
Dr. Saul Kelly – Reader at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London
Dr. Zoltán Kovács – State Secretary for International Communication and Relations, Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary
Dr András Lánczi – President of the Board of Trustees, Mathias Corvinus Collegium
Mr Douglas Murray – founder of Centre for Social Cohesion think tank, Associate Editor of The Spectator
Dr Kanta Kumari Rigaud – Lead Environmental Specialist, World Bank Group
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Tilo Schabert – member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Institut François Mitterrand based in Paris, professor emeritus of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen
H.E. Mr Mor Nicodemos Daoud Matti Sharaf – Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Mosul, Kirkuk and Syrian Orthodox Church
Ms Nina Shea – Director of Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute
Mr Éric Zemmour – publicist of Le Figaro
March 23 (Saturday)
Dr Gunnar Beck – EU lawyer and legal theorist, SOAS University of LondonProf. George J. Borjas – Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
Prof. David Coleman – Emeritus Professor of Demography, University of Oxford
Prof. Francisco J. Contreras P. – Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universidad de Sevilla
Mr Theodore Dalrymple, alias Anthony M. Daniels – British author and psychologist
Ms Chantal Delsol – French journalist
H. E. Mr Alexander Downer – former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Mr Pierre-Henri Dumont – member of the Republican Party at the French National Assembly, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Dr John Fonte – Director of Center for American Common Culture at Hudson Institute, expert of the Congress on migration and foreign affair
Ms Constance Le Grip – member of the French National Assembly in the Republican Party, Vice-President of the Cultural Affairs and Education Committee, Member of the European Parliament
Mr José Herrera – Director of International Relations at Spanish think tank FAES Foundation
H.E. Ms Beata Kempa – Minister for Humanitarian Aid Programmes of the Republic of Poland
H.E. Mr Václav Klaus – former President of the Czech Republic
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yosef Kuperwasser – Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and former head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence
Prof. Benny Morris – Professor of History at Ben-Gurion University, Middle East expert
Ms Anne-Elisabeth Moutet – columnist for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Gatestone Institute
Ms Katalin Novák – Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary
Mr Balázs Orbán – Deputy Minister and Parliamentary State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office of Hungary
H.E. Mr Jaime Mayor Oreja – former Minister of Interior of Spain, former Vice-president of the European People’s Party group in the European Parliament
Prof. Werner J. Patzelt – campaign manager of the CDU in Saxony, political science professor at Technische Universitat Dresden
Mr Daniel Pipes – President of the Middle East Forum, US
The Honourable Michelle Rempel, P.C., M.P. – Canadian MP and Senior Shadow Minister of Immigration, Refugees & Citizenship
H.E. Mr Nicolas Sarkozy – former President of the French Republic
Mr Miklós Szánthó – Director of Center for Fundamental Rights a.k.a. ‘Alapjogokért Központ’
Dr. Judit Varga – Minister of State for EU Relations at the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary
March 24 (Sunday)
Gen. Pablo Martin Alonso – retired Gendarmerie General, former border protection operations leaderMr Todd Bensman – National Security Expert of the Center for Immigration Studies
Mr Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy – Executive Director of Design Terminal, founder of Brain Bar
Mr Aimen Dean – former undercover agent at MI6 within Al-Qaeda
Mr Paulo Eneas – political advisor of President Jair Bolsonaro, journalist and public opinion influencer in Brazil
Prof. Frank Füredi – Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
H.E. Mr Mark W. C. Higgie – former Australian PM Tony Abbott’s senior international, immigration and border protection advisor, former Ambassador to Hungary and Brussels
Mr Radko Hokovsky – Executive board Chairman and Head of the Internal Security Program at the European Values Think Tank
Mr David Inserra – Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation
Mr Mosab Hassan Yousef – a former undercover agent of Shin Bet, Israel Security Agency in Hamas
Dr Marina Khramova – Deputy Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor of MGIMO
Mr Mark Krikorian – Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
Mr Pete Marocco – Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State
Mr Clifford D. May – Founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Prof. David Newman – Professor of Geopolitics in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University
Ms Galina Ochirova – Junior Research Associate of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mr Daniele Scalea – Director of the Rome-based Centro di Studi Politici e Strategici
Dr Mária Schmidt – Director-General of House of Terror Museum
Mr Szabolcs Takács – State Secretary for European Union Affairs at the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary
Mr Azbej Tristan – Minister of State for helping persecuted Christians and implementing the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office of Hungary
Mr Andrew Veprek – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, US Department of State