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New Polish law to protect pupils from LGBT indoctrination
PolandA new law has just been passed by the Polish parliament to allow the authorities to expel the LGBT lobby and gender ideologues from the…
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/UkraineAfter German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visits to Kiev on Monday (where he promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the rapid disbursement of two loans of 150…
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 making…
Germany/Poland: Warsaw revives the issue of minorities
Germany/PolandUsually this is is a little known issue outside of Poland. Poland demands recognition by Germany of its Polish minority, a demand essentially supported at…
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 suppression…
Like Lithuania and Poland, Latvia to build barrier on border with Belarus
Latvia/BelarusWhile 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 4…
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…