Századvég was established in 1993 as an intellectual workshop of the young generation that played an active role in the political changes of 1989-1990 in Hungary. The founders’ aim was to create an intellectual and professional base to provide reliable support for Hungarian opinion leaders in a period of social and economic transition.
In the 30 years since then, the world around us has not become less controversial, but it has accelerated considerably, flooding us with an almost unimaginable amount of possibilities and impulses. As complication has increased, so has problem complexity, while we have to form opinions on more and more abstract and relatively distant issues.
Századvég’s mission is to help you see clearly so that you can make better decisions. And good decisions require two things: clear objectives and substantial information.
We work to learn and understand Hungarian and international economic and social processes, and thus provide useful and understandable knowledge to decision-makers, whether they are corporate, governmental or private.
Kinga Kenyeres
Chief Executive Officer
Brussels’ misguided sanctions and high carbon taxes have pushed up energy prices on the market, which have been passed on to residential consumers in most Member States. Higher utility costs are causing serious livelihood challenges for a lot of households: right now, one-fifth of Europeans are having trouble paying their heating bills, and more than a quarter are having trouble paying their bills in general. Thanks to the overhead cost reduction policy, Hungarians are the least affected by both indicators.
Brussels imposes the world's highest carbon taxes on EU energy producers, which, combined with its misguided sanctions policy, doubles European prices compared to industrial electricity prices in the US and China. In 2024, an EU power plant had to pay three times as much per ton of carbon dioxide emitted as an American power plant and five times as much as a Chinese energy company. By early 2026, carbon dioxide quotas had broken multi-year records, widening the gap even further.
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In a unique way, Project 28 conducted the widest possible survey of 1,000, that is a total of 28,000 randomly selected adults in each country. Gaining an understanding of society’s sense of prosperity and mapping the population’s attitudes towards the performance of the European Union, the migration crisis and the increasing terrorism were among the most important goals of the analysis. Following the surveys in 2017, 2018 and 2019, on behalf of the government, the Századvég Foundation has been conducting the research under the name of Project Europe since 2020, which continued to reflect on the topics that most dominated the European political and social discourse.
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