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The Visegrad Four countries’ energy challenges – Workshop

27 May. 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
At the Budapest workshop of the V4 Energy Think Tank Platform (V4ETTP) we welcome the government, industry and civil society representatives of the Visegrad Four countries to discuss the current energy market challenges in the V4 countries.
2025.05.27. 09:00 – 2025.05.27. 17:00
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem

This year’s Budapest Workshop addresses three of the four topics of our yearly program: recent gas market developments in the V4, the question how the Clean Industry Deal can benefit the industrial transformation in these countries, and the challenges of household energy poverty. 

Speakers: 

Opening and morning session 

  • Csaba Marosvári, Deputy State Secretary for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary 

  • Mónika Zsigri, Head of unit Energy Security and Safety, European Commission (online) 

  • Agata Loskot-Strachota, OSW (PL) 

  • Adrienn Selei, Senior research associate, REKK 

  • Péter Kotek, Senior research associate, REKK 

 

PANEL ON V4 GAS MARKET DEVELOPMENTS 

  • Agata Loskot-Strachota, Senior analyst, OSW (PL) 

  • Lenka Kovasovska, Energy consultant and lecturer at the University of Economics, Prague (CZ) 

  • Alina Arsani, Head of Energy Systems Program of EPG (RO) 

  • Szabolcs Ferencz, CEO of FGSZ (HU) 

  • Zsolt Borsányi, Origination director, MVM Partner (HU) 

  • Moderator: Andrej Nosko, SFPA (SK) 

 

CHALLENGES OF HIGH ENERGY PRICES 

  • Csilla Bartók, Head of Department, ACER (online) 

  • Éva Gerőházi, Senior researcher, Metropolitan Research Institute 

 

PANEL ON ENERGY POVERTY IN V4 AND THE SOCIAL CLIMATE PLAN 

  • Dušana Dokupilová, Researcher, Slovak Academy of Science (SK) 

  • Maggie Škabraha Dokupilová, Director of the Decarbonization Financing Department at the Ministry of the Environment (CZ) 

  • Kamil Lipiński, Head of the Climate and Energy Team, Polish Economic Institute (PL) 

  • Viktor Horváth, Deputy State Secretary for Energy Transition, Ministry for Energy of Hungary (HU) 

  • Moderator: Oldřich Sklenář, Research fellow, AMO (SK) 

 

PANEL ON INDUSTRIAL DECARBONIZATION IN V4 AND THE CLEAN INDUSTRIAL DEAL 

  • Antonín Šámal Clean Industry Platform expert AMO (CZ) 

  • Rafał Smentek, Clean Air and Climate Negotiations Department the Ministry of Climate (PL) (online) 

  • Gábor Molnár, Managing Partner, Arctic Green Engineering (HU) 

  • Representative of the Metal Cluster (HU) (tbc)  

  • Moderator: Nolan Theisen, Senior Fellow at the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, SFPA (SK) 

 

Participation is free, for on-site participation, please register here.  

The detailed programme description can be found here. 

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