Balázs Orbán: It’s time for Europe to take control of our own fate

Balázs Orbán: It’s time for Europe to take control of our own fate

Partenaire March 20, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 19 March 2022. “The ideological brainwashing of our children evokes the darkest periods of our history” “Nothing has changed since the communist manifesto: social classes were turned against each other then, and…

Politics

Hungary: last rehearsals before the 3 April elections

Yann Caspar March 18, 2022

Hungary – If 15 March is first and foremost the anniversary date of the Hungarian revolution of 1848, it is also always the occasion for large political rallies. This year, due to the imminent holding of legislative elections, these political rallies took…

Society

Street prayers in Poland with Men’s Rosary rallies every first Saturday of the month

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault March 18, 2022

Poland – The last public rosary prayer in Warsaw, on 5 March, was attended by about 500 people and was recited for a just peace in Ukraine. For the past three years, every first Saturday of the month, the sidewalks of many…

News

Central Europe, land of welcome for Ukrainian refugees

The Editorial Board March 18, 2022

Central Europe – As Russia’s war in Ukraine entered its fourth week, more than three million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, had taken refuge in neighbouring countries as of 15 March, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…

News

Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Prime Ministers in Kyiv to affirm their solidarity with Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 17, 2022

Ukraine – Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech PM Petr Fiala, Slovenian PM Janez Janša, and Polish Deputy PM Jarosław Kaczyński travelled by train to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday, 15 March, to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and express support…

News

European Commission reluctant to sanction Hungary and Poland

The Editorial Board March 16, 2022

Hungary/Poland/EU – The European Parliament voted on 10 March, by 478 votes to 155, in favour of enforcing financial sanctions against Hungary and Poland after the ECJ’s rejection of the two countries’ objections to the “rule of law” conditionality mechanism. However, in…

News

Ukrainian Foreign Minister points out Germany’s role in Russia’s attack

The Editorial Board March 15, 2022

Ukraine/Germany – Speaking on Sunday, 6 March on the weekly political programme presented by Anne Will on the first German television channel, ARD, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba insisted on his country’s refusal to give up its sovereignty and he pointed…

Magyar Nemzet

Szilárd Demeter: Say No to War, Say Yes to Culture

Partenaire March 15, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 12 March 2022. Russian works of art, creators, performers, intellectual grandeur and athletes are being banned and canceled due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. According to Szilárd Demeter, director of the Petőfi Literary…

News

Katalin Novák elected as Hungary’s new president

The Editorial Board March 14, 2022

Hungary – As expected due to the Fidesz-KDNP coalition’s overwhelming majority there, former Family Minister Katalin Novák was elected by the Hungarian National Assembly to succeed János Áder as President of the Republic on Thursday. She obtained 137 votes against 51 for…

News

European Parliament sanctions Hungary and Poland in midst of humanitarian crisis

The Editorial Board March 14, 2022

Hungary/Poland – By Thursday, 10 March, the war in Ukraine had been going on for a fortnight. Hungary and Poland found themselves on the front lines of a massive influx of Ukrainian refugees, and had already taken in more than 1.5 million…

Society

Poles slowing down decline of Catholic Church in Ireland

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault March 14, 2022

Poland/Ireland – Sligo is a small town of 17,000 inhabitants in the diocese of Elphin on the northwestern coast of the Republic of Ireland, with a Polish minority of about two thousand people in the town itself and its surroundings. For more…

News

Hungary and Poland hosting foreign students fleeing Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 12, 2022

Hungary/Poland – As a consequence of Russia’s war in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring into bordering countries, mostly Poland and Hungary but also Slovakia, Romania, and Moldova. Among those fleeing the war there are not only Ukrainians but also…