Old dreams could come back to life

Partenaire March 30, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 28, 2021. The question of „quo vadis, union, quo vadis, Europe?” appears more and more often in European public opinion – especially considering that the current European Commission (not) lead by…

Politics

Can this new scandal really weaken PiS in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 29, 2021

Poland - Since February 26, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has been making numerous revelations about the CEO of the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Orlen, a former state company, remains 27% state-owned, and the government of Mateusz Morawiecki therefore had a decisive…

Magyar Nemzet

Seventy-five years of loss

Partenaire March 26, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 26, 2021. Exactly three-quarters of a century have passed since, on March 28, 1946, the Czechoslovak National Assembly enacted the provisions issued by President Edvard Beneš between April and October 1945.…

Interviews

Marek Jurek: ‘Yes to Family, No to Gender’ – A citizens’ bill for Poland to pull out of the Istanbul Convention

Olivier Bault March 24, 2021

Interview with Marek Jurek, former Marshal (President) of the Polish Sejm in 2005–07, former Member of the European Parliament in 2014–19, founding member of the Right of the Republic party (Prawica Rzeczypospolitej), leader of the Christian Social Congress (Chrześcijański Kongres Społeczny). Together…

Magyar Nemzet

Fidesz-critic Luxembourgish politician Frank Engel involved in corruption

Partenaire March 24, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 24, 2021. Frank Engel, president of the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) of Luxembourg, has resigned after being involved in a corruption scandal – according to the party’s brief statement.…

Politics

Now that Viktor Orbán and Fidesz have finally exited Donald Tusk’s EPP Group, what is the next step?

Bill Ravotti March 23, 2021

Orbán indicated that he wanted to form a party with Matteo Salvini (Italy) and the PiS of Poland. However, what was once possible in 2019 (when Orbán decided to stay with EPP), may prove more difficult today. Salvini, whose Lega party is…

Culture

23rd March – Hungarians and Poles celebrate their thousand-year friendship

Sébastien Meuwissen March 23, 2021

Poland / Hungary - On 12 March 2007, the Hungarian parliament unanimously decreed that the 23rd March be considered as “Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day”. Four days later, a similar resolution was adopted by acclamation by the Polish parliament. Anyone with a passing interest…

Society

Three-quarters of European citizens consider the rights to security and protection of life more important than freedoms

Partenaire March 21, 2021

This article has been published online on December 8, 2020 on the site of the Századvég Institute. In recent years, security and order and the conflict between human rights and political freedoms, such as mass migration and terrorism, have often been an issue.…

Society

The V4 countries stand for strong nation-state frameworks and the support for families

Partenaire March 20, 2021

This article has been published online by Századvég on March 10, 2021. The alliance of the Visegrad countries – Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic – is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The importance of the cooperation is demonstrated by the…

Magyar Nemzet

The golem has turned against its creators

Partenaire March 20, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 19, 2021. The European Union is a golem. It always has been, just that now, it turned against its creators. At first glance this might seem loud and exaggerated, but…

Society

Are media freedom and pluralism really under threat in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 19, 2021

Poland - On Wednesday, March 10, the European Parliament held a plenary debate on “Government attempts to silence free media in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia”. That discussion had been announced a week earlier on the European Parliament’s website, in a newsletter titled…

Society

LGBTQ ideology and the dissolution of Western identity

David Engels March 17, 2021

European Union - Ever since the European Union declared itself a “LGBTQ freedom zone” on 11 March 2021, debate around “LGBTQ” ideology has been rampant in the media and, by extension, criticism of “intolerant” and “authoritative” Poland, where it is said that…