THE CLUB

DIPLOMACY&TRADE THE CLUB BREAKS HIATUS WITH FOCUS ON US MIDTERM ELECTIONS

Diplomacy&Trade’s The Club welcomed guests on November 7 at the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus in Budapest after a nearly two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The event marked the 12th anniversary of The Club, an evening of discussion and networking for diplomats and business people. Diplomacy&Trade publisher Peter Freed greeted guests and introduced the key speaker of the evening, Ambassador Tamás Magyarics, university lecturer and one of Hungary’s foremost experts on US history, foreign policy and politics. The main focus of The Club couldn't have been more topical: it was the night before the US midterm elections, an event closely followed by millions in and outside America. Peter Freed emphasized the importance of the outcome of vote for Americans and for many beyond the US borders, remarking that the ballot would shape US domestic and foreign policy for years to come. Following welcoming remarks from Area General Manager of the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest, Stephan Interthal, freshly back from New York where elections were the talk of the town, Tamás Magyarics took the stage and shared his thoughts on the outlook for the elections and the issues that hanged in the balance. Hungary’s former ambassador to Ireland, Magyarics is a widely acknowledged expert in the fields of the history of US-Central European relations in the 20th century; the history of the U.S., with an emphasis on foreign affairs; transatlantic relations; and the theory of international relations. Ambassador Magyarics stressed that the complexity of domestic and international issues preoccupying US voters (inflation, abortion rights, immigration, the war in Ukraine) made it very hard to predict which way voters will cast their ballots. He noted that the election campaigns were digging trenches even deeper in the highly polarized American society and remarked that US foreign policy and transatlantic relations were unlikely to undergo a sharp change even in the event of a decisive win of the Republican Party. Following the discussion and Q&A session, the hotel hosted a reception with a gastronomy selection and wines from the Kovács Nimród Winery.

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