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Recent coverage includes a Space Force special operations plan questioned by Congress, a Tech Force initiative to hire thousands for two-year federal jobs, a Navy report on V-22 Osprey safety risks, and a new presidential jet arriving early. Paul Scharre’s views on the global AI arms race are also discussed.
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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…
Visegrád Group Summit in Košice
SlovakiaThe Visegrád countries have held their planned summit despite press reports that the event would be postponed or even cancelled. Things actually seem to have…
Hungarian opposition furious over U.S. money for Márki-Zay’s campaign
HungaryOn 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) had…
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 to 20 May, the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is the most important conservative event organised annually in the United…
An analysis of Viktor Orbán’s broad electoral success
HungaryMany 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…