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Ukraine’s Bandera commemorations going down badly with Poland

Ferenc Almássy January 10, 2023

Poland/Ukraine – The beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure. Such commemorations go down badly with neighbouring Poland, where people still remember the horrendous ethnic cleansing…

Miscellaneous

Merry Christmas 2022!

Ferenc Almássy December 23, 2022

Dear readers, The Visegrád Post team wishes you a merry, holy and peaceful Christmas. On this day of celebration of hope and love, let us remember that light will triumph over darkness and that Our Lord Jesus Christ was born…

Society

Photo report of the 2022 Polish Independence Day March

Ferenc Almássy November 12, 2022

Poland - For more than a decade, each year on the 11th of November, the major event happening in the Polish capital city is the Independence March (Marsz Niepodległości). For most people, 11 November 1918 means the end of the war, but…

Interviews

Janez Janša: “The political processes in Europe turned away from democracy”

Ferenc Almássy October 6, 2022

Interview with Janez Janša, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS): "The political processes in Europe over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy." Janez Janša has been one of…

Interviews

“Central and Eastern Europe must cooperate to counterbalance the old democracies of Western Europe”

Ferenc Almássy May 20, 2022

Budapest – The following is an interview with Jerzy Kwaśniewski, the head of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, Poland’s most powerful conservative NGO, who was attending the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that was being held for the first…

Politics

Ukraine: what exactly is Hungary being reproached for?

Ferenc Almássy March 31, 2022

Hungary – “There can be no Russian networks in Europe that split the EU from within, those that are trying to help Russia make as much money as possible even now. Everyone knows very well who in the European Union opposes humanity…

Interviews

Father L’ubomír Urbančok: “Here too a powerful influence pushes us towards secularization and liberalization”

Ferenc Almássy December 21, 2021

Interview with Father L'ubomír Urbančok, Slovak traditionalist Catholic priest: “Like everywhere else, here too we are subject to a powerful influence which pushes us towards secularization and liberalization. " Ferenc Almássy met with Father L'ubomír Urbančok in the city of Trnava, Slovakia,…

Politics

Marine Le Pen’s helping hand to Hungary and Poland

Ferenc Almássy October 31, 2021

Hungary – From Monday to Wednesday, the candidate of the National Rally (RN) in France’s upcoming presidential election was in Budapest to meet with Viktor Orbán and to talk about, among other things, forming a joint parliamentary group in the European Parliament.…

Interviews

George Simion: “Germany now controls a big part of our internal and external affairs”

Ferenc Almássy September 19, 2021

George Simion, President of the Romanian patriotic party AUR: "Regarding the Visegrád Group, we have the same history, we have the same interests, and we will have the same future. We cannot rely on Germany, which now controls a big part of…

Interviews

Ábel Bódi: “Those who lead and ruin western countries are the ones calling us far-right”

Ferenc Almássy August 19, 2021

Interview with Ábel Bódi, leader of Identitás Generáció (Generation Identity), the Hungarian branch of the French youth movement Génération Identitaire (GI): "the voices that call us far-right - here in Hungary too - are those of people leading and ruining states such…

Interviews

Izabella Caussanel: “We have to remember what a magnificent culture we have”

Ferenc Almássy April 15, 2021

Interview with Izabella Caussanel, lead-singer of the Hungarian music group Ötödik Évszak (Fifth Season): “We have to remember what a magnificent culture we have. Rediscover magnificent texts which really do tell us something.” At the end of 2020, the group released “Ne…

Culture

Good Friday

Ferenc Almássy April 2, 2021

Dear readers, Today, we celebrate Good Friday, the day the Christ suffered his Passion, was condemned and crucified. It is a most important day for Christians, as well as a day of mourning and self-reflection. Christians fast and seek silence and calm…