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Interview with Tristan Azbej, Hungary's State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and for the Hungary Helps Program: "We are confronted bythe fact that Christianity is the world's most persecuted faith." Hungary - In 2016, the Hungarian government created a Secretary…

Interviews

Eric Zemmour : “We have to ally ourselves with the Visegrád Group in order to protect our identity”

Ferenc Almássy December 16, 2019

Interview with Eric Zemmour, French writer, journalist and polemist: “I believe that we French should ally ourselves (with the Visegrád Group) in order to keep alive a certain idea of Europe and of European identity, which is first and foremost Christian and…

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

The V4 is united and ready ahead of next Brussels Summit

The Editorial Board June 16, 2019

By the editorial board. Visegrád Group - On Thursday, June 13, 2019, the Hungarian, Slovak, Czech and Polish Prime Ministers met in Budapest to jointly prepare for the Brussels summit on June 20 and 21. They announced at the end of the…

Politics

Project28: the Results of the European-wide Survey Revealed

The Editorial Board May 14, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff Hungary - Less than two weeks ahead of the European elections of May 26, the political research institute of Századvég revealed on Tuesday, 2019, May 14, the results of its annual European-wide survey. For the occasion, a conference…

Politics

Orbán Drops Weber

The Editorial Board May 6, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff. Hungary - The saga of Fidesz and the EPP has seen a turning point on Monday, May 6, 2019: three weeks ahead of the European elections, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received in Budapest the…

Politics

Jobbik: A Brief History of a Political 180

The Editorial Board May 5, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff Hungary - Long considered the most radical parliamentary party in Europe, over the course of only a few years, Jobbik has morphed into a centrist and pro-European Union party, completely abandoning its former radical rhetoric opposing…

Politics

The Slovak Presidential Elections Viewed from Budapest and Bucharest

Modeste Schwartz March 19, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Slovakia - The Slovak presidential elections held on Saturday 16 March – a first round so heavily dominated by Euro-globalist candidate Zuzana Čaputová (a "Slovak Macron" in favour of the LGBT agenda) that the second round could become a…

Politics

Speeches of the Hungarian and Polish Prime Ministers on the Occasion of the Hungarian Holiday of March 15 – FULL SPEECHES

The Editorial Board March 16, 2019

By the editorial board. Hungary, Budapest - Each March 15, Hungary celebrates her struggle for freedom conducted in 1848-1849. A fight against the Habsbourg empire led among others by Hungarian republicans and which got support from Poland, notably the general Bem, the last…

Politics

The Hungarian Government’s Offensive Campaign for the European Elections

The Editorial Board March 4, 2019

Hungary – A new campaign by the government against Soros and Juncker; rising criticism in the EPP against Fidesz; and looking ahead to the local Hungarian elections By undertaking a new billboard campaign against well-known financier George Soros, but also the…

Politics

Is Hungary in a Crisis?

Ferenc Almássy January 6, 2019

By Ferenc Almássy. Hungary - A series of demonstrations have taken place in Hungary opposing its conservative Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. Its trigger was a vote in Parliament approving changes to the labor laws. Both the Hungarian and the foreign media who…