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Immigration: Merkel Finally Agrees With The Visegrad Group

The Editorial Board February 8, 2019

Slovakia, Bratislava - On this Thursday, February 7, 2019, leaders of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) gathered in Bratislava for a summit, along with a special guest: German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And on the issue of immigration, the V4 seems…

Culture

When Franco Planned an Intervention in Hungary

Nicolas Klein October 30, 2018

By Nicolas Klein, French associate professor of Spanish, former student of the ENS of Lyon, Spanish language teacher in preparatory class, specialist of contemporary Spain. Saving the distant and justifying the local – The Francoist Spain in front of the Hungarian revolution…

Politics

Viktor Orbán confronts Globalism and Brussels in view of Upcoming European Parliament Elections – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board October 24, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech on the 62 nd anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight Budapest, 23 October 2018 Fellow Celebrants, Ladies and Gentlemen, According to one of the laws of mathematics, if…

Culture

The Hungarian Uprising of October ’56

Miklós Dorsch October 22, 2018

Hungary - October 23, 1956, is a date that will forever be engraved in the history of Hungary and of the world. On this day, communism faltered in the Eastern Bloc: the Hungarians took to the streets for their freedom. Some have paid it…

Society

Poland and the Jews on the fiftieth anniversary of March 68: the antisemitic campaign of 1968 seen by a Polish Jew witness of the events

Olivier Bault March 18, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The theme of Polish anti-Semitism is back. With the new Polish memorial law, Poland is under attack from all sides, especially from Israel and the United States. After a little calming down, the attacks started again when…

Society

About post-communist economies, by Levan Vasadze, Georgian entrepreneur

The Editorial Board January 7, 2018

This article was sent to us by our readers and represents a particular political and economic vision that does not necessarily represent the views of our staff. However, we thought worthy of interest the analysis of the author, which encourage reflection on the economic…

Society

Strasbourg: Hungarian Minister Must Postpone Conference Due to Communist Students

The Editorial Board April 6, 2017

France, Strasbourg - Hungarian Minister of Justice László Trócsányi had to postpone a conference scheduled to take place at the IEP in Strasbourg, as the Union of Communist Students opposed his visit. Former Ambassador of Hungary in France and current Minister of…

Interviews

Karim Ouchikh: the Identitarian Renewal of the European Ideal Will Come from Central Europe

Ferenc Almássy March 25, 2017

France - Interview with Karim Ouchikh, president of SIEL, a French sovereignist party: "The renewal of identity that will allow us to embrace the European ideal again will not come from Paris, Berlin or London, but from Budapest, Prague or Warsaw." Karim…

Society

Lech Walesa, aka agent Bolek

Olivier Bault February 5, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In February 2016, documents recovered from the widow of General Kiszczak, former Minister of Interior of General Jaruzelski, confirmed what many Poles had been convinced of for a long time: before becoming the charismatic leader of Solidarity (Solidarność),…

Politics

Poland Releases Confidential Archives of Former Communist Services

Olivier Bault January 26, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - On January 24, the Institute of National Memory (IPN), the repository of the archives of the former security services of the communist dictatorship, has released 6500 files so far classified as defence secret. All the remaining confidential part…

Society

Slovakia’s Nationalist Temptation

The Editorial Board December 20, 2016

Slovakia - The small Carpathian country's population is more and more inclined to support nationalist parties, and even 25% of the Slovaks would support a dictatorship. Prime Minister Robert Fico, even though he is member of Smer, a centrist left-wing party, is…

Politics

“Polish liberal-libertarian opposition tackles democracy”

Olivier Bault December 19, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Not satisfied with having plunged Poland into a constitutional crisis by wanting to appoint 5 judges of the Constitutional Court in advance to elections that they knew lost, not satisfied to blame the conservative winners of the October elections…