At the annual meeting of the Hungarian Europe Society István Hegedűs was re-elected as chairman of the organisation on 3 November 2011. Jerzy Celichowski and Györgyi Kocsis have become the two vice-chairpersons.
The article of István Hegedűs entitled "Európa-görcsök" ("Inflexibility towards Europe") was published in Népszava on 24 December 2002 about the completion of the accession negotiations between Hungary and the European Union
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "Party Politics on European Matters and the Divide between Political Elites and Citizens in Hungary" at the conferen
István Hegedűs gave a presentation entitled "European Elections and European Party Politics: Lessons Learned from the Hungarian European Campaign" at the conference "European Elections between Domestic and European Politics – Sharing Best Practices" organised by the Centrul Român de Studii Global
The article by István Hegedűs "Görcsoldó. Provincializmus vagy európaizálódás" about the Hungarian strategy of foreign affairs was published by Figyelő on 13 December 2007.