On 30 October 2009 the President of the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) G. Mesežnikov presented his paper on national populism and nature of state at the conference “National Populism and Inter-ethnical Relations in Slovakia 2006-2008”. The conference was organized in Šamorín by the Forum Minority Research Institute. The conference panel “’Light’ National Populism? Politics and nature of state” was attended by a theologian Miroslav Kocúr and political scientists Samuel Abrahám and Zsolt Gál. The discussion was chaired by Kálmán Petőcz, the program director of the Forum Minority Research Institute.