Poland – what is the political situation after the October elections?

Poland – what is the political situation after the October elections?

Olivier Bault November 27, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS), never made any secret of the fact that at least two consecutive parliamentary terms were needed for PiS to complete and consolidate its reforms. The top priority was…

Politics

Analysis of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 12, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania – A preliminary warning is needed, which is valid for all elections organised in Romania. The counting of the votes is entrusted to a militarised secret service, the STS (the Special Transmissions Service), which employs a non-homologated software…

Society

Child benefits alone will not reverse the population decline in Hungary and Poland, as the examples of Germany and France show

Olivier Bault November 12, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation. Central Europe - Budapest hosted its third demographic summit on September 5–6, attended by representatives from several Central European governments, including Czech PM Andrej Babiš,…

Politics

Romania: inventory on the eve of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 9, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - On the 10th of October in Bucharest, the Social-Democratic government fell after a no-confidence vote initiated by the liberal opposition (rather openly guided by president Iohannis) and his allies in the Parliament. A rather insignificant episode in…

Society

Poland – A citizens’ initiative against the sexualisation of children

Olivier Bault October 30, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - On October 21, Poland was once again the subject of a debate in the European Parliament. This time, it was not about the reforms of the judiciary introduced by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government, or the rule of law,…

Politics

Immigration to the EU on the rise, but relocation is dead – despite Italy having (temporarily) changed sides

Olivier Bault October 25, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation European Union - Salvini has – at least for now – failed in his attempt to trigger new elections in Italy, which would almost certainly…

Interviews

Cardinal Dominik Jaroslav Duka: “the gender ideology is targeted against the family”

The Editorial Board October 22, 2019

Interview with Cardinal Dominik Jaroslav Duka, Primate of the Czech Republic: "The gender ideology is targeted against the family." Czechia - An interview conducted by Maciej Szymanowski, from the Felczak Institute of Polish-Hungarian cooperation, and Paweł Lisicki, editor in chief of the…

Politics

Poland: Unsurprising Victory of the Christian Conservatives of the PiS

The Editorial Board October 15, 2019

Poland - Sunday, October 13, 2019, Poland held parliamentary elections. The Law and Justice Party, PiS, won the victory unsurprisingly, extending its mandate for four years. Proportional voting for the Diet - Polish Parliament - and one-round majority for the Senate was…

Politics

Hungarian Local Election: Not a Defeat, but a Warning

Modeste Schwartz October 14, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Hungary - The (very relative, but real) drop of the FIDESZ-KDNP government coalition in last Sunday's local elections will, of course, be interpreted by the Hungarian opposition as a (starting) disavowal at the national level of Viktor Orbán's policies.…

Politics

Hungary’s Local Elections: a Sour Victory for Orbán

The Editorial Board October 14, 2019

Hungary - Sunday, October 13, residents of Hungary voted to elect their mayors and municipal or county councilors. If Viktor Orbán's Fidesz won the vote on the national scale, it lost the capital city, Budapest. A turning point in the reign of…

Politics

Viktor Orbán visited Macron in Paris

Thibaud Gibelin October 12, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Hungary - While it was a highly awaited meeting... it has been paradoxically surrounded by a strange silence. On Friday, October 11, The Hungarian Prime minister was the guest of Emmanuel Macron for a lunch at the Elysee palace…

Politics

Ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Poland, Brussels comes to the opposition’s rescue. Again.

Olivier Bault October 11, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The manoeuvres are pretty crude, but Poles are now getting used to this kind of practice. In the same way that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered an interim order against Poland two days before the…