Thibaud Gibelin | Visegrád Post

Hungary — Interview with Rodrigo Ballester, director of the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Hungary: “Open-mindedness, critical thinking and freedom of tone are important to us, contrary to the Cancel Culture that wreaks havoc in the West.”…

Politics

Does Central Europe have adversaries in the East? – I. The Belarusian lessons

Thibaud Gibelin January 28, 2022

This article was published online by Corvinák on 24 January, 2022. A bilateral meeting between Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin is to take place this February. The agenda will be quite busy: from the extension of the Paks nuclear plant by Rosatom,…

Society

France and nuclear power, an opportunity for Europe?

Thibaud Gibelin December 29, 2021

In our industrial societies, energy policies are steeped in paradox. Ideology versus pragmatism, ecology versus economic appetites, idealistic sobriety versus materialist hedonism. Nothing should be further from energy policies than announcement effects or emotional reactions. But in our troubled times nothing escapes…

Society

Central Europe: The last bastion of Europe?

Thibaud Gibelin March 11, 2021

This article was originally published on Tysol.fr on March 5, 2021. For the thirty-year anniversary of the Visegrád Group, and split this week between the PPE and Fidesz, Thibaud Gibelin takes a look and contextualises Central Europe’s uncomfortable, yet decisive, situation. What was…

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Viktor Orbán visited Macron in Paris

Thibaud Gibelin October 12, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Hungary - While it was a highly awaited meeting... it has been paradoxically surrounded by a strange silence. On Friday, October 11, The Hungarian Prime minister was the guest of Emmanuel Macron for a lunch at the Elysee palace…

Society

The Political Vocation Of Romania

Thibaud Gibelin February 22, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Part 1/3 here! - Part 2/3 here! - 3/3 - Part 3: Romania on the wire - The Celebration of the centenary of modern Romania on December 1, 2019. The "evil wind" coming from the East, denounced by the…

Society

Romania: The Flaws And Shadows Of National Unity

Thibaud Gibelin February 5, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Part 1/3 here! - 2/3 - 2nd part of Thibaud Cassel's exclusive report in Romania From Bucharest to Alba Iulia, on December 1st, the union of the "Greater Romania" is celebrated, a union that enables many political hijackings. What…

Society

When Romania Celebrated the Centenary of 1918

Thibaud Gibelin February 4, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. 1/3 - Part one: a Romanian mystery Romania celebrates every 1st of December "the union of all the Romanian provinces". The event was particularly important on December 1, 2018, as they celebrated the 100th anniversary of the declaration of…

Politics

General elections in Slovenia: has the time come for illiberalism in Ljubljana?

Thibaud Gibelin June 2, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Slovenia - Following the resignation of the Prime Minister Miro Cerar on March 14, general elections will take place in Slovenia this Sunday, June 3. This is the occasion to inquire into the possible evolutions of this country bordering…

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Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe: does France risk a divorce on the Rhine ?

Thibaud Gibelin April 24, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union - Emmanuel Macron is he man of the ”great leap forward” in terms of European integration. The explicit reluctance of the Visegrád Group is being brushed aside: the reform concerns first the euro zone, and the ones…

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Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe – 1/2

Thibaud Gibelin April 18, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union – On Sunday April 15th the French President Emmanuel Macron gave a TV interview of around three hours. Halfway between his comfortable election in last May and the European elections of 2019, the event had the form…

Society

Central Europe and the European economy

Thibaud Gibelin March 13, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Central Europe - Economic competition confronts Europe with the rest of the world, but first of all European countries with each other. The political dispute over migration quotas has recently crystallized one of the economical tensions that runs across…