By Gábor Tóth.
In the last few decades, the meaning of the word “progress” has changed so dramatically, it is hard sometimes to come to grips with it. In some countries of the once glorious West, when one says the word “progressive”,…
By Olivier Bault.
Hungary - The cancellation of a contest organised by the US State Department in order to assign 700.000 dollars to Hungarian opposition media of the countryside illustrates a turning point in the relations between Washington and Budapest. This…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary - For almost three decades, the very charismatic Prime Minister has accustomed the Hungarian and international opinion to the now traditional speech of Tusványos (named after the festival organized every year at the end of July in the…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 29 th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp
28 July 2018, Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad)
Good morning to you all. It is an honour to be here again, and to be…
By Ferenc Almássy.
Not everybody likes the rapprochement between China and Central Europe. Wishing to take its future in its own hand, Central Europe is looking for diminishing more and more its dependence as a peripheral zone of Western Europe and…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - On July 9, 2018, the Romanian parliament wrote the final chapter of an energy drama that had remained relatively unseen for a long time, finally breaking out only a few weeks ago – though it had probably…
By Olivier Bault.
Originally published in French on Réinformation TV.
Poland, Rzeszów - The first Forum of the Regions of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) took place on July 3, in Rzeszów, Poland. This initiative has been started in 2015 by the…
By Alimuddin Usmani
Europe - In 2017, the European countries granted asylum to 538.000 migrants. The continent does not consist in a monolithic bloc on this issue. There are significant differences between the Western European and the Central and Eastern European…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Yesterday, July 4 2018, the Romanian Supreme Court – having the final word after a long series of appeals – sentenced two Szekler activists (István Beke and Zoltán Szőcs) to 5 years in prison, causing national outrage…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The Polish and Israeli Prime Ministers signed a common declaration to end the dispute.
The amendments to the Polish memorial law concerning the Shoah and the Nazi crimes committed in Poland at the origin…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Central Europe - For more than a month, the currencies of Central Europe (a term that, for my part, I always use in a conventional/geographical sense: post-communist Europe outside the former USSR) have dropped against Western currencies – …
On Thursday 28 and Friday 29 of June the leaders of the 28 Member States of the European Union met in Brussels for a summit to discuss in particular migration policy at a European scale. A summit that has brought some progress…