Poland – Will Poland block the Next Generation EU recovery plan? Will this stalemate bring down the United Right coalition led by Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice (PiS) party? It is not only in Germany that the machine is stuck, after the…
Press statement by Viktor Orbán after his talks with Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland and Matteo Salvini, President of the Italian government party Lega
1 April 2021, Budapest
Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.
No matter how much one wants to deal with…
Speech of Viktor Orbán at the videoconference at the Informal Summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States
Budapest, 31st March 2021
Distinguished Presidents,
First of all let me express my appreciation to His Excellency, President Tokayev, and to our honorary…
Poland - Since February 26, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has been making numerous revelations about the CEO of the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Orlen, a former state company, remains 27% state-owned, and the government of Mateusz Morawiecki therefore had a decisive…
Now that Viktor Orbán and Fidesz have finally exited Donald Tusk’s EPP Group, what is the next step?
Orbán indicated that he wanted to form a party with Matteo Salvini (Italy) and the PiS of Poland. However, what was once possible in 2019 (when Orbán decided to stay with EPP), may prove more difficult today.
Salvini, whose Lega party is…
March 15. It’s Hungary’s national day and the nationalists of “Mi Hazánk” have organised a protest in favour of ending COVID restrictions. Yet despite growing rumblings from the population, few decided to overcome their fear of the police and take part in…
European Union - Poland in particular, but also Hungary and Slovenia, were at the center of criticism on Wednesday and Thursday in the European Parliament. The three conservative-governed Central European countries were the subject of a debate on media freedom. The first…
Poland – Clément Beaune, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, made a visit to Poland on Monday and Tuesday. Since Emmanuel Macron was elected president, France has been somewhat cool towards Poland’s leaders, whom Macron has described as being “below…
For the second time in a short while, a decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has led to a referral to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which will be asked to define the limits of national sovereignty.
Poland - The Polish…
Readers will no doubt remember the outrage caused when Poland closed its borders and Hungary’s decision to confer a series of extraordinary provisional powers to its government, in order to better manage the pandemic. As usual, European institutions claimed to be “worried”…
Hungary - After a couple of year of wrestling match, it is finally done: After warning its partners, Hungarian Christian-Democrat Prime Minister Orbán's Fidesz party decided to leave the European Popular Party (EPP), the centre-right wing group of the European Parliament.
The…
Slovenia is the target this time, as the EU Commission condemns Slovenian Premier's criticism of a left-wing reporter.
Why? A free media requires dissenting opinions, open debate and hard-hitting from both sides...or it’s not really free.
PM Janša must have struck a…