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March against compulsory vaccination and Covidian segregation in Katowice

The Editorial Board August 11, 2021

Poland – “We are the fourth wave”, “Stop segregation!”, "Free Poland!”, “Keep your hands off our children!” Several thousand people, many carrying white and red flags and references to the Catholic religion, took part in the “Great Freedom March” held on Saturday…

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Czechia: Babiš “promises” that the vaccine will not be mandatory

The Editorial Board July 30, 2021

Czechia – Whilst the Greeks, Germans, French, Italians and Latvians have recently started to foresee such a move, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, during a visit to the Hradec Králové region in north-eastern Bohemia on Thursday 22 July, announced that COVID-19…

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Hungary heading towards an extension of compulsory vaccination?

The Editorial Board July 23, 2021

Hungary – Following the example of France, Greece and Italy, compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 for health workers seems to have been definitively decided in Hungary after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán confirmed it on 16 July on Kossuth Rádió, but it is feared…

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Slovakia: Constitutional Court overturns quarantine for non-vaccinated people

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

Slovakia – Facing the prospect of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant – 35 cases had been detected in the country as of July 13, compared with 14 as of July 8 – Slovakia, which is one of the European countries that…

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Polish democracy sick with Covid like many others, but still breathing

Olivier Bault July 14, 2021

Poland – On 7 July, the PiS group announced that it once again had a majority in the Sejm thanks to the return of one of the three MPs who had left at the end of June. The government formed by the…

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Vaccines: Harsh criticism from Slovakia’s ex-Prime Minister

The Editorial Board June 27, 2021

Slovakia – Following appeals made by Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakian President, and Vladimír Lengvarský, Slovakian health minister, to the three former prime ministers of their country, the leader of Smer DF (populist social-democrats) Robert Fico, head of the government from 2012 to 2018,…

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The future of the European right

Partenaire April 30, 2021

This article has been published online by XXI Század Intézet on April 26, 2021. European politics has been vegetating in the shadow of the competing superpowers since World War II. Germany (apparently) gave up on being Europe’s leading cultural and military power,…

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Almost a full year of remote schooling for Polish children!

Olivier Bault April 8, 2021

Poland – While the management of the first wave of the pandemic in the spring 2020 by the Polish government, as well as the other governments of the Visegrád Group, may have looked rather good in comparison with the major Western European…

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An Austrian tribunal call into question PCR tests

La Rédaction April 3, 2021

Austria – Following a complaint lodged by the FPÖ (Austrian populist party), the administrative tribunal of Vienna has ruled on 24 March that PCR tests could not be considered as reliable way of diagnosing an illness or the level of contagiousness of…

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Oradea doctor: hospital Covid protocols are what’s killing patients

The Editorial Board March 30, 2021

Article originally published in Hungarian on Erdely.ma, on March 19, 2021. “A Romanian doctor is working wonders, healing hercovid patients 100%” – wrote the title of a longer article in the Romanian newspaper, the National. The Oradea (Nagyvárad) doctor’s secret to success:…

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Hungary : Nationalists protest COVID restrictions

Ferenc Almássy March 17, 2021

March 15. It’s Hungary’s national day and the nationalists of “Mi Hazánk” have organised a protest in favour of ending COVID restrictions. Yet despite growing rumblings from the population, few decided to overcome their fear of the police and take part in…

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Pandemics and Lockdowns – Should we go down the path taken by “illiberal” Hungary and ask the people?

David Engels March 5, 2021

Readers will no doubt remember the outrage caused when Poland closed its borders and Hungary’s decision to confer a series of extraordinary provisional powers to its government, in order to better manage the pandemic. As usual, European institutions claimed to be “worried”…