Modeste Schwartz

Former student at the École Normale Supérieure - rue d'Ulm, linguist, he is also translator and author. After more than fifteen years spent in Romania and Hungary, Modestes Schwartz specialized in the follow-up of Danubian politics.

Politics

Romania, Hungary: Ideological Confusion, National Realities

Modeste Schwartz February 24, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - My recent articles on the political situation in Romania, published on this site, have triggered a rather large counter-offensive of misinformation, aimed at both my person and the broader ideological movement which is presently opposing the attempted…

Society

“Romania: from a “Two-Tiered Europe” to a Europe of the Double Bind”

Modeste Schwartz February 16, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Not only does Brussels act as a colonial despot toward all second-tier EU countries (or, even worse, considering that France, to take but one example, at least endowed its African colonies with infrastructure, whereas in Romania passenger trains currently…

Politics

Romania: Revolt, indeed. But whose revolt and against who?

Modeste Schwartz February 2, 2017

Romania - A series of relatively important demonstrations took place in the Romanian capital and some other provincial cities. About 50,000 people (according to the authorities) protested on February 1, 2017, against the new government appointed following the December elections. It is the…

Politics

“Romania’s Gauleiter Texts the New PM into Office”

Modeste Schwartz January 16, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz, French author living in Transylvania, Romania. If you follow the mainstream narrative, right wing parties have ruled Romania most of the time since 2004. As to what “right wing parties” might possibly refer to in the neo-colonial situation of post-1990…