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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs

Nicolas de Lamberterie September 18, 2018

By Nicolas de Lamberterie. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs - an illustration of the youth of the Visegrád Group 2.0 Czechia - The adoption of the Sargentini report against Hungary (challenged by the Hungarian government because…

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“Say goodbye to the entire elite of ’68”, the new project of Viktor Orbán – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board July 30, 2018

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…

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China – Central Europe: an intensified rapprochement through the 16+1 initiative

Ferenc Almássy July 29, 2018

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…

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The Three Seas Initiative, a new forum of cooperation of twelve Central European countries countervailing the Berlin-Brussels-Paris Axis?

Olivier Bault July 13, 2018

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…

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Immigration in Europe: the fundamental reasons of the rejection front

Alimuddin Usmani July 9, 2018

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…

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Viktor Orbán Expects a New Global Financial Crisis

Modeste Schwartz July 1, 2018

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 – …

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“The liberal order is collapsing”: the harsh statement of Viktor Orbán; FULL SPEECH at a conference held in memory of Helmut Kohl

The Editorial Board June 25, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at a conference held in memory of Helmut Kohl 16 June 2018, Budapest Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, President Spengler, President Zoltán Balog, I…

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Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

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Interview with Aleksander Dugin on the Visegrád Group – the opinion of a Russian nationalist about Central Europe

The Editorial Board May 30, 2018

Interview published originally on geopolitica.ru. Russia - Aleksander Dugin is a Russian nationalist intellectual and philosopher. Theorician of "the 4th political theory", traditionnalist, favourable to an Eurasian space, opposed to the "anglo-saxon thalassocratia", Aleksander Dugin is subject to many fantasies, such as being…

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E.U.’s Energy Policy: a Threat to Poland?

Antoine de Longevialle April 30, 2018

Poland - ‘Poland today is not a country that can show Europe the way, it's a country that has decided to go against European interests in many areas’, French president Macron said at a press conference in Bulgaria, in August 2017. This…

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Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe: does France risk a divorce on the Rhine ?

Thibaud Gibelin April 24, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union - Emmanuel Macron is he man of the ”great leap forward” in terms of European integration. The explicit reluctance of the Visegrád Group is being brushed aside: the reform concerns first the euro zone, and the ones…

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George Soros’ foundation is leaving Budapest

The Editorial Board April 19, 2018

Hungary - According to the leading Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which was created and is led by George Soros, said the OSF would leave Budapest to move to Berlin. The information has been confirmed…