The Center in Madrid
Besides countless meetings at our office in Madrid with allies from all geographic horizons, our cooperation
with them has implied hosting a number of them as part of Iberoamerican delegations to Budapest, convened to
finesse their understanding of Hungary’s model of conservative governance. These include cohorts of ISSEP
Madrid students awarded end-of-year prizes by the institution for their capstone projects, one Argentinian
delegation in the wake of Javier Milei’s presidential victory, and one of Mexican leaders through our friends
at Patria Unida, as well as the participants of Fundación Disenso’s Young Leaders of the Iberosphere Program.
In terms of media exposure, we are present in Hungarian and Spanish speaking media in Europe and the Americas.
In March 2024, “the Center” hit a milestone in its mission of forging international alliances by
opening its first office beyond Hungary’s borders, in downtown Madrid. Ever since, the Center’s new outpost in
Spain has been hard at work strengthening our network across the so-called “Iberosphere”: the cultural space
encompassing the Iberian Peninsula and the nations across the Atlantic molded by the legacies of Spain and
Portugal. Spain, and our newfound physical presence there, is not merely a key part of that strategy in itself,
but also an invaluable bridge and a gateway towards Latin America. The mission for which the Center is globally
known of helping build an alliance of right-wing, patriotic forces across the Western world, pursued over more
than a decade since our founding in 2013, will now be deployed across the Iberosphere through a dedicated base.
We hope to become a key actor in fully bringing the nations of Latin America, a vital component of our shared
Western civilization, into the struggle against our neo-Marxist common enemies. Beyond endeavoring to gather
new allies in this strategic region of the West, our Madrid office seeks to shape and display a realist image
of Hungary, of its place in Europe, and of its role in the defense of our common values.
Activities
Since our official launch event on March 20th, 2024, in Madrid, attended by more than a hundred guests, the
Office has convened and partaken in countless activities in the Spanish capital and across the Iberosphere.
We frequently gather journalists, thinkers and action-oriented leaders at widely attended roundtables and
panels to address issues such as the EU parliamentary race of June 2024, the US elections, the mega-fraud in
Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela or the forming of Patriots for Europe (PfE). Other key activities include private
gatherings around speakers from our ecosystem, such as breakfast-colloquia on Poland’s democratic backsliding
under PM Donald Tusk or the challenge of boosting the EU’s competitiveness, through the prism of Hungary’s
Presidency of the EU Council.
Along with our local allies, we hosted a debate on Hungary’s model of
border management and migration policy at the lower house of Spain’s Parliament (Congreso de los Diputados),
and a welcome reception at Madrid’s Royal Theatre prior to the Political Network for Values’ IV Transatlantic
Summit in the Spanish Senate. We helped to bring about, furthermore, two editions of the “Iberoamerican Summit
of Think-Tanks”, at El Escorial in 2024 and in Peru in 2025, conceived by our allies at CEU-CEFAS. This is not
to mention, naturally, that CPAC Hungary expanded its Iberospheric component relative to prior editions of our
annual flagship event, including speeches by Speaker of the Paraguayan House Raúl Latorre, Vox leader and now
President of Patriots for Europe (PfE) Santiago Abascal, Chile’s former presidential runner-up José Antonio
Kast, Argentinian MP Agustín Romo, Brazilian MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, Mexican presidential aspirant Eduardo
Verástegui, and many others, with even a special panel dedicated to the region.
As European partners of
CPAC, and hosts of the conference’s only edition on European soil, our Center has been present at all its
Iberoamerican editions (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico). Also across the Atlantic, we participate at the
Heritage Foundation’s Carvalho Dialogue, in Miami. And our Office was represented, furthermore, at academic
seminars in various higher education institutions, including Argentina’s Catholic University, CEU San Pablo
(Madrid), ISSEP Madrid, and the University of Navarra.