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Interview with Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ): “If Poland chooses a liberal government, the country will undergo an Irish-style cultural revolution. This would mean a cultural reversal and a big shift towards an excessively liberal…

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Katarzyna Gęsiak: “Pro-abortion circles that publicise fake news don’t actually care much about the well-being of the victims”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 1, 2023

Interview with Polish legal counsellor Katarzyna Gęsiak, co-author of a comparative analysis of public opinion surveys on Poles’ toward abortion: "In my opinion, the pro-abortion circles that publicise [fake news] don’t actually care much about the well-being of the victims." The Polish…

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A. Robaczewski: “We count on tight cooperation at the Intermarium Winter School”

Sébastien Meuwissen January 24, 2023

Interview with Arkadiusz Robaczewski, philosopher, lecturer, Rector's Plenipotentiary for Studies and Research Programs at Warsaw’s Collegium Intermarium university: “We count on tight cooperation at the Intermarium Winter School” From 4 to 11 February 2023, the Polish Collegium Intermarium university is organising an…

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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…

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László Bernát Veszprémy: “I don’t think there will be very much Muslim immigration into Central Europe”

Yann Caspar July 5, 2022

Hungary – The following is an interview with the Hungarian historian, journalist, and publicist László Bernát Veszprémy, who said, "I don't think there will be very much Muslim immigration into Central Europe." László Bernát Veszprémy graduated from the Reformed Károli Gáspár University…

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“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…

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“Even Russia does not get close to the level of repression we have in Belarus”, says Belarusian journalist

Olivier Bault March 26, 2022

Belarus – An interview with Inna Kochetkova, a Belarusian journalist who resigned in October 2020 because she refused to be muted after twenty years working for Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, including five years as editor-in-chief of the newspaper’s weekly issue. She lives…

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Rodrigo Ballester: “The MCC is the opposite of Cancel Culture that is wreaking havoc in the West.”

Thibaud Gibelin March 8, 2022

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.”…

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Andriy Shkrabyuk: “Ukraine is a mixture of Eastern religiosity and Western political traditions”

Olivier Bault March 4, 2022

Ukraine – Interview with Ukrainian academic Andriy Shkrabyuk: “Historically, Ukrainian independence already existed at the time of the Cossacks, that is, in the second half of the 17th century. Various elements of this Ukrainian Hetmanate functioned until 1783. In addition, there was…

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“Nearly 30% of Poland’s yearly GDP disappeared from the state coffers as a result of eight years of Donald Tusk’s government”

Sébastien Meuwissen February 21, 2022

The following is an interview with Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a writer and historian specialising in Polish and European history during the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a former MEP of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Wojciech Roszkowski is…

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Jan Pospieszalski: “PiS’ behaviour in the face of the pandemic weakens the government’s electoral base”

Olivier Bault February 9, 2022

Poland – Interview with Polish conservative journalist Jan Pospieszalski: “There is a healthy minority in the Polish parliament that has been able to effectively block segregationist laws while mocking them and showing the absurdity of the proposed solutions.” Jan Pospieszalski is a…

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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,…