Last Sunday the Hungarian capital Budapest saw one of its biggest demonstrations in years. The demonstrators were protesting against Viktor Orbán’s government, and especially against deteriorating standards of living and low teacher salaries.
The Visegrád Group countries face inflation well above the…
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 over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy."
Janez Janša has been one of…
Václav Klaus’ 19 May speech at the CPAC in Budapest, Hungary. Václav Klaus was President of the Czech Republic in the years 2003–13 and Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998. He was speaking at the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) which…
Slovakia – In a new judicial twist in Slovakia, Štefan Harabin, a former president of the Supreme Court (1998–2003 and 2009–2014), former minister of justice (2006–2009) in Robert Fico’s first government, former presidential candidate in 2019 (with 14.34% of the vote against…
This editorial was published on April 28, 2022, in Czech language in the daily newspaper “Lidovénoviny”.
By Václav Klaus and Jiří Weigl.
Czechia - Ukrainians in their hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, are seeking refuge from war abroad, in huge numbers…
Ukraine – In the basement of a building in Kyiv which was temporarily used as an air raid shelter, the image broadcast around the world of a row of transparent maternity cradles where newborns sleep might have looked like a sign of…
Hungary – Many 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 900,000 votes compared to the cumulative results of those parties in 2018. Viktor Orbán’s coalition…
Hungary – Victory had seemed to be a foregone conclusion for the Fidesz-KDNP government coalition for several weeks now, but its magnitude has nevertheless surprised more than one observer. Viktor Orbán has, for the fourth consecutive time, obtained two-thirds of the seats…
Hungary – “There can be no Russian networks in Europe that split the EU from within, those that are trying to help Russia make as much money as possible even now. Everyone knows very well who in the European Union opposes humanity…
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…
Article first published by OJIM on 14 February, 2022.
On 26 October, 2021, Hungarian leftist-liberal online media 444.hu reported that Magyar Jeti Zrt. [the company behind 444.hu, ed.] was going to launch a fact-checking site with the support of the European…
Czechia – As Czech senators were preparing last week to vote an extension until November 2022 of the pandemic law, opponents of anti-Covid health measures led by the collective Chcípl pes (The dog is dead) were mobilising for a day of action…