Meloni’s and Weber’s difficult coalition project in the European Parliament

Meloni’s and Weber’s difficult coalition project in the European Parliament

Nicolas de Lamberterie January 25, 2023

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 European election campaign) and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met to discuss a future…

Interviews

A. Robaczewski: “We count on tight cooperation at the Intermarium Winter School”

Sébastien Meuwissen January 24, 2023

Interview with Arkadiusz Robaczewski, philosopher, lecturer, Rector's Plenipotentiary for Studies and Research Programs at Warsaw’s Collegium Intermarium university: “We count on tight cooperation at the Intermarium Winter School” From 4 to 11 February 2023, the Polish Collegium Intermarium university is organising an…

Culture

A tribute to TGM

Yann Caspar January 24, 2023

Gáspár Miklós Tamás, known to Hungarians as TGM, died on 15 January at the age of 74. A polyglot philosopher, an opponent of Kádár in the 1980s, a liberal Hungarian deputy from 1990 to 1994, a Marxist eco-feminist in the 2000s, a…

News

Austria to repeal all Covid laws and restrictions

The Editorial Board January 23, 2023

Austria – Almost a year after Austria’s parliament passed a law introducing a general requirement to get anti-Covid vaccinations, despite massive public opposition, the Austrian health minister, Johannes Rauch (Greens), announced on Saturday, 14 January, his intention to have all laws and…

News

Babiš alone against Pavel in Czech election run-off

The Editorial Board January 20, 2023

Czechia – The second round of the Czech presidential elections will take place on 27–28 January with a run-off ballot between General Petr Pavel, who got 35.4% of the vote in the first round, and former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who came…

News

Czech presidential election run-off between Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš

The Editorial Board January 18, 2023

Czechia – Czech voters were called to the polls on 13 and 14 January to choose a successor to President Miloš Zeman. According to the results published by the Czech press, the two candidates qualifying for the second round of voting on…

News

Opposition to the euro rising in Poland

The Editorial Board January 17, 2023

Poland – At a time when Croatia has just switched to the euro – specifically, on 1 January 2023 – and with significant price increases being observed as retailers are taking the opportunity to “round up” their prices, a survey was conducted…

News

Solidarity visit of V4 capitals’ mayors in Kyiv

The Editorial Board January 16, 2023

V4/Ukraine – The mayors of the Visegrád Four’s capital cities, who have formed a “Pact of Free Cities”, visited Kyiv on 11 January. Bratislava’s mayor Matúš Vallo, Budapest’s Gergely Karácsony, Prague’s Zdeněk Hřib, and Warsaw’s Rafał Trzaskowski came at the invitation of…

Society

Media academy launched by Hungarian leftist-liberal media outlet with US tax dollars

Partenaire January 16, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism on 4 January 2023. In the land of Viktor Orbán, the so-called “free and independent” press is so muzzled that it can easily receive over $700,000 from Washington to set…

News

Andrzej Duda promises Ukrainians Leopard tanks while on a visit to Lviv

The Editorial Board January 13, 2023

Poland/Ukraine – The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine – Andrzej Duda, Gitanas Nausėda, and Volodymyr Zelensky – met on Wednesday, 11 January, in the Ukrainian city of Lviv for a Lublin Triangle summit, where they signed a joint declaration of support…

News

ETIAS, the European Union’s new control system

The Editorial Board January 13, 2023

European Union – The EU’s new ETIAS border control system is scheduled to begin operating in November 2023. Most citizens of the 60 countries currently exempted from visas for tourist travel will soon have to fill in an online form and pay…

News

Andrej Babiš acquitted in Stork’s Nest case

The Editorial Board January 12, 2023

Czechia – Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš was acquitted on Monday, 9 January, by a Prague court in the “Stork’s Nest” case. The news could not have come at a better time for Babiš, with the first round of the presidential…