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New Polish law to protect pupils from LGBT indoctrination
Poland – A new law has just been passed by the Polish parliament to allow the authorities to expel the LGBT lobby and gender ideologues from…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “State of the Nation” address on 12 February 2022
Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen. It has been a long time since we last saw each other, and it is a good feeling…
Ukraine: for Václav Klaus, Czechia must remain neutral
Czechia/Ukraine – After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visits to Kiev on Monday (where he promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the rapid disbursement of two loans of…
Márki-Zay brings together “communists and fascists”
Hungary – As the weeks go by, Péter Márki-Zay, the united opposition‘s candidate for the post of prime minister in the upcoming 3 April parliamentary elections, is…
Germany/Poland: Warsaw revives the issue of minorities
Germany/Poland – Usually this is is a little known issue outside of Poland. Poland demands recognition by Germany of its Polish minority, a demand essentially supported…
The United States and the Polish foreign policy dilemma
Poland/USA – It is always surprising to note that Polish conservatives’ views on the United States are completely different from those of the French or Germans,…
Poland’s Konfederacja party banned by Facebook censorship
Poland – A secretary of state at the Polish Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Janusz Cieszyński, announced on 5 January on Twitter that he had been informed of the imminent…
Like Lithuania and Poland, Latvia to build barrier on border with Belarus
Latvia/Belarus – While the news spotlight has been focused on the situation at the Polish–Belarusian border, particularly at the Kuźnica border crossing in the Podlaskie voivodship, and also,…
Grzegorz Kucharczyk: “A crisis of faith inevitably entails a crisis of reason”
Grzegorz Kucharczyk is a Polish historian and Humanities professor who specialises in 19th- and 20th-century political thinking as well as German history. One of his…
Record interest rates hike in Czechia
Czechia – Following the National Bank of Poland, which raised its benchmark interest rate from 0.5% to 1.25% on 3 November, the Czech National Bank announced on…
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski: “Poland must withdraw from Next Generation EU and block climate package as response to Commission’s blackmail”
Interview with Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was once a leading figure in the Civic Platform (PO) and one of the main negotiators of…
A look back at Novak Djokovic’s exceptional career
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has had an absolutely phenomenal 2021 season. A national hero in his native Serbia, he is by far one of…
The Czech Elections: Implications for Visegrád and the EU
Czechia – In a theme familiar to many in the West, polling predictions failed dramatically as Czechia held its lower-house elections on October 8-9. This time…
Viktor Orbán’s commemoration speech on the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution
Hungary – Hungary commemorated its 1956 uprising against Soviet rule on 23 October, a conflict which made a significant impact on both national and European history.…
Strong reactions after Polish Constitutional Court’s clarification on EU court’s jurisdiction
Poland/European Union – The 7 October ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which was issued in response to a question put by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, is…
Zemmour: This is the “era of the struggle for civilization between Islam and Christianity”
This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 30 September 2021. The United States of Europe is “the illusion of Euro-maniacs who are…
George Simion: “Germany now controls a big part of our internal and external affairs”
George Simion, President of the Romanian patriotic party AUR: “Regarding the Visegrád Group, we have the same history, we have the same interests, and we…
Das Europaparlament setzt seinen LGBT-Kreuzzug fort - Reaktionen in Mitteleuropa
Europäische Union – In Fortsetzung seiner Politik der Vereinheitlichung und Etablierung von „LGBT-Rechten“ in der gesamten Europäischen Union als Teil eines „Regenbogen-Europas“ hat das Europaparlament am…
Hungary’s State Secretary for Persecuted Christians: we’ve helped 340 million people remain in their homeland
Interview with Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and for the Hungary Helps Program: “We were the first government to…
Poland: PiS reinforces its pro-family policy
Poland – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Tuesday 17 August the introduction of a new social benefit for families in the form of a…