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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “State of the Nation” address, February 2023
Hungary – Each year, mid-February, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a speech on the “state of the Nation” in which he addresses the main topics…
Polish judges at the ECHR: power struggle between the Council of Europe and Poland
Originally published on the website of the European Center for Law and Justice on 24 January 2023. In the coming days, the Parliamentary Assembly of the…
Meloni’s and Weber’s difficult coalition project in the European Parliament
European Union – In early January 2023, the EPP leader in the European Parliament, Germany’s Manfred Weber (who has been in conflict with Viktor Orbán since the 2019…
Ukraine’s Bandera commemorations going down badly with Poland
Poland/Ukraine – The beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure.…
Western media silence over massive US funding of Hungarian opposition
Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism, 22 December 2022. In Hungary, the fiasco of Péter Márki-Zay, an unsuccessful and extraordinarily clumsy candidate in…
New gas pipeline project between Slovenia and Hungary
Slovenia/Hungary – Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, and Croatian Energy Minister Davor Filipović jointly inaugurated the first high-voltage line connecting the…
Poland accelerates its transition to Russia-free energy
Poland – Like the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989–90)…
Hungary to get Israeli Iron Dome
Hungary – As the conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported on Monday, 21 November, Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky has announced that the Hungarian army will soon be…
Visegrád Group Summit in Košice
Slovakia – The Visegrád countries have held their planned summit despite press reports that the event would be postponed or even cancelled. Things actually seem to…
Hungarian opposition furious over U.S. money for Márki-Zay’s campaign
Hungary – On 16 October, Péter Márki-Zay, Viktor Orbán’s unsuccessful opponent in last April’s parliamentary elections, admitted on his Facebook account that his Hungary for All Movement (MMM)…
Janez Janša: “The political processes in Europe turned away from democracy”
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…
Viktor Orbán’s Speech at the CPAC on 19 May 2022
Hungary – On 19–20 May, the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is the most important conservative event organised annually in the United States,…
An analysis of Viktor Orbán’s broad electoral success
Hungary – Many Hungarian and foreign observers were stunned by the Fidesz–KDNP coalition’s crushing victory in the 3 April parliamentary elections. The six-party opposition coalition lost nearly…
Hungary held Europe’s most transparent elections last Sunday
In an unprecedented move for an EU country, Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Hungary and the referendum that was held simultaneously were closely monitored by a full-scale observation mission of…
Václav Klaus congratulates Viktor Orbán on his election victory
Czechia/Hungary – Former Czech Prime Minister and President Václav Klaus has sent a letter to his friend Viktor Orbán to warmly congratulate him on his fourth consecutive electoral…
“Even Russia does not get close to the level of repression we have in Belarus”, says Belarusian journalist
Belarus – An interview with Inna Kochetkova, a Belarusian journalist who resigned in October 2020 because she refused to be muted after twenty years working…
Katalin Novák elected as Hungary’s new president
Hungary – As expected due to the Fidesz-KDNP coalition’s overwhelming majority there, former Family Minister Katalin Novák was elected by the Hungarian National Assembly to succeed…
The EU will not lay down arms against… Poland and Hungary
This article was first published in the French daily newspaper Présent. EU/Poland/Hungary – Poland and Hungary are now the two EU countries that receive the most Ukrainian…
Rodrigo Ballester: “The MCC is the opposite of Cancel Culture that is wreaking havoc in the West.”
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…
A Hungarian fact-checker in partnership with the European Commission and AFP: Soros’ shadow
Article first published by OJIM on 14 February, 2022. On 26 October, 2021, Hungarian leftist-liberal online media 444.hu reported that Magyar Jeti Zrt. [the company behind 444.hu, ed.] was going to launch…