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Full speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University on 22 July 2023
Hungary / RomaniaEach year, end of July, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Băile Tușnad (Tusványos…
László Toroczkai: “Orbán makes massive use of foreign labour in Hungary”
The French-language news portal Breizh-Info has published a long interview in French with Hungarian Member of Parliament László Toroczkai, who is the leader of the opposition nationalist…
CPAC Hungary 2023, where Viktor Orbán’s friends met on May 4-5
HungaryAfter last year’s first European instalment, a second meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was organized in Budapest on May 4 to 5, 2023. It…
A Polish-Korean consortium to manufacture tanks and howitzers
PolandThe Polish arms company Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa announced on Friday, 24 February, the signing of agreements to strengthen its cooperation with its South Korean partners. According to…
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 of…
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 UnionIn 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 European…
Ukraine’s Bandera commemorations going down badly with Poland
Poland/UkraineThe beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure. Such…
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/HungarySlovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, and Croatian Energy Minister Davor Filipović jointly inaugurated the first high-voltage line connecting the Slovenian…
Poland accelerates its transition to Russia-free energy
PolandLike the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989 to…
Hungary to get Israeli Iron Dome
HungaryAs 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 equipped…