István Pócza

István Pócza

ISTVÁN PÓCZA is an expert on international affairs. He is the Director of Research for Danube Institute. He earned his BSc. and MSc. degrees in European Studies from the Institute of Political and International Studies at ELTE University. In 2015–2016 he worked at the Migration Research Institute. Parallel, he worked at Századvég Foundation first as a Research Fellow, then as a Senior Research Fellow until 2018. In 2018–2020 he has worked as Senior Research Analyst at the Budapest-based Center for Fundamental Rights as an expert on foreign relations focusing primarily on European politics, especially Austria and Germany.

ONLY NATION STATES CAN BEAT THE PANDEMIC

“The outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe has brought numerous political lessons. The first and most important of these is clearly that the European Union’s institutions were visibly at a loss as how to handle this unprecedented challenge. The situation bears many similarities to the migration crisis of 2015. The EU