ECJ’s Advocate General: Hungary and Poland’s actions against regime of conditionality should be dismissed

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ECJ’s Advocate General: Hungary and Poland’s actions against regime of conditionality should be dismissed

The Editorial Board December 6, 2021

Hungary/Poland/EU – The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Manuel Sánchez-Bordona, made public on 2 December his opinion on the actions brought by Hungary and Poland https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12/cp210217en.pdf against the regime of conditionality linked to the rule of law.…

Society

Losing our minds to the pandemic – an elegy for common sense

The Editorial Board December 4, 2021

This article was published online by Mandiner on 23 November 2021. You have to beg the Pfizerist Germans to take Moderna, while the Austrians are still testing people after they’ve been vaccinated three times. It’s therefore been proven: the pandemic is…

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Child protection: the questions to be asked in the Hungarian referendum

The Editorial Board December 3, 2021

Hungary – In June, the Hungarian parliament passed a much-publicised amendment to its child protection law. In addition to increased penalties for convicted paedophiles, the amended law introduced a ban on LGBT propaganda in schools. That was all it took for the…

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Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said to retire from politics

The Editorial Board December 3, 2021

Austria – Forced to resign from the Chancellery on 11 October because of an investigation into allegations of corruption and misappropriation of public funds carried out by the financial prosecutor’s office, the former chancellor and young leader of Austrian politics, Sebastian Kurz,…

Politics

Polish diplomatic counteroffensive against Belarusian aggression

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault December 2, 2021

Poland – On 24 November, the European Parliament held a debate on the situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU, and the implications for the security and humanitarian situation. Although the discussion took place in a particularly calm atmosphere…

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V4 heads of state hold summit in Budapest

The Editorial Board December 1, 2021

Visegrád Group – On Monday, 29 November, the presidents of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – János Áder, Andrzej Duda and Zuzana Čaputová – met at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest for a summit of the Visegrád Group’s heads of state,…

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Czech President Miloš Zeman appoints Petr Fiala (ODS) as Prime Minister

The Editorial Board November 30, 2021

Czechia – Seven weeks after the parliamentary elections that were held on 8 and 9 October and the victory of the SPOLU coalition (ODS, KDU-ČSL, and TOP09), which came out on top with 27.8% of the vote and 71 seats, it was…

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Poland introduces anti-inflation shield

The Editorial Board November 29, 2021

Poland – On 25 November, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that an anti-inflation shield would be put in place to offset rising energy prices. The principle of the Polish shield is simple: it is essentially a matter of reducing the share…

Politics

After the ECJ, Polish Constitutional Tribunal stands up to European Court of Human Rights

Olivier Bault November 29, 2021

Poland – On 24 November, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal struck again. This time, its target is not the European Court of Justice, on whose jurisdiction it set limits with its rulings of 14 July and 7 October, but the European Court of…

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New national lockdown and state of emergency in Slovakia

The Editorial Board November 26, 2021

Slovakia – Following a lockdown for the unvaccinated on Monday, 22 November, the Slovak Minister of Health, Vladimír Lengvarský, has once again tightened the restrictions on freedoms by declaring a national lockdown for all. It will last for at least a period…

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Budapest: V4 summit on immigration

The Editorial Board November 25, 2021

Visegrád Group – The heads of governments of the Visegrád Group met on 23 November in Budapest, at the initiative of Poland, to discuss migration issues in the context of the migration crisis at the Polish–Belarusian border. An attempt to destabilise the…

Magyar Nemzet

No balance in the Western media

The Editorial Board November 24, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 19 November 2021. The left liberal mainstream would suppress conservative values everywhere possible With the advent of progressive ideology, media pluralism has lost its sense of balance, said Balázs…