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What’s going on in the Hungarian “united opposition”?

Yann Caspar January 22, 2022

Hungary - Things are heating up between the leaders of the united opposition. Former Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Coalition (DK) Ferenc Gyurcsány openly mocks the unique candidate Péter Márki-Zay, while Péter Jakab’s Jobbik no longer provides financial support to…

Society

Neptun Deep gas project: Exxon sells its shares to Romgaz

Yann Caspar November 12, 2021

Romania – It seems that Romanian company Romgaz has reached an agreement with US giant ExxonMobil to buy the US company’s 50% stake in the Neptun Deep gas field project, located in the Black Sea, for a sum of 1.06 billion dollars.…

Politics

EU and energy: should we laugh or cry?

Yann Caspar November 8, 2021

European Union – Launched by the European Commission in 2019 and tied to a “climate package” of 12 targets in July 2021, the European Green Deal has again been much discussed in recent weeks, with the energy choices it entails being blamed…

Politics

Soros and the art of fishing in troubled waters

Yann Caspar October 26, 2021

Hungary – The Foundation for Historical and Social Research in Central and Eastern Europe, which is close to the Hungarian government, has just published a collective work dealing with the Soros empire in the former satellite countries of the USSR and the…

Interviews

Bence Bauer: “Germany, Hungary: Our two countries and peoples have a good relationship”

Yann Caspar October 15, 2021

Bence Bauer is a lawyer by training. He lived in Germany for more than twenty years before becoming the deputy head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Budapest. Today, he heads the German-Hungarian Institute at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a higher education…

Politics

Francis Fukuyama attacks Orbán and supports Karácsony

Yann Caspar October 12, 2021

Hungary – After having taken part in a Forum on Sustainable Democracy co-organized by the municipality of Budapest and the Central European University of the American-Hungarian financier-philanthropist George Soros, the mayor of the Hungarian capital, Gergely Karácsony, accepted an invitation from American…

Society

Hungary extends its long-term gas commitment with Russia

Yann Caspar September 24, 2021

Hungary – Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó visited St. Petersburg at the end of August to meet with Gazprom Group CEO Alexei Miller. The two men then agreed on the details of a new long-term contract for the purchase of Russian gas…

Politics

Selection of remarks made during the Hungarian opposition’s primary debate

Yann Caspar September 17, 2021

Hungary – On Sunday, 12 September, the ATV television channel organised a debate between the five candidates running in the opposition’s primary. The first and second rounds of the opposition coalition’s primary will be held in late September and early October. For…

Society

The four-day week: cure or symptom?

Yann Caspar September 8, 2021

In vogue since the early 1990s and tested by several countries and some companies since then, the four-day working week has been actively discussed since the beginning of the “Covid era”. In March 2020, the Hungarian Euro-enthusiast party Momentum even included it…

Politics

A politically decisive time for the Hungarian government

Yann Caspar September 4, 2021

Hungary – After many months of media hype on public health issues, “restrictive measures”, and compulsory mask-wearing indoors and outdoors, Hungarians have been living since the beginning of July in relative normality. One might call it a parallel reality, given that most…

Society

Hungarian central bank head sounds alarm

Yann Caspar August 26, 2021

Hungary – For several weeks now, the pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet has been opening its columns every Monday to the head of the Hungarian Central Bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank – MNB), György Matolcsy, who comments on the Hungarian, European and international economic…

Politics

Completion of Nord Stream 2: a geopolitical clarification?

Yann Caspar August 10, 2021

Europe - The July 15 meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Joe Biden, which resulted in the signing of joint declarations on energy and human rights, is widely seen by analysts as a victory for German and Russian positions,…