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A Soros-funded NGO calls for the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš, to stand down

Alimuddin Usmani December 27, 2019

By Alimuddin Usmani. Czechia – The European Commission (EC) has recently filed an audit report regarding Andrej Babiš, the Czech prime minister, who is accused by his opponents of being entangled in a conflict of interest. He strongly denies the accusations. The…

Politics

Hungary’s Local Elections: Sour Tasted 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

Poland – PiS leading in opinion polls despite “scandals”

Olivier Bault September 30, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Although opposition media have been trying very hard to expose scandals linked to the current ruling party in Poland, the electorate is unimpressed. Jarosław Kaczyński’s social-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) seems to be on track to…

Politics

Romania: Rudy “Rule of Law” Giuliani Stabs Klaus “Anti-corruption” Johannis in the Back.

Modeste Schwartz August 28, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - The means to know the future in advance are the subject of an old and repetitive debate, concerning the comparative advantages of the crystal ball, necromancy and Jacques Attali's table talk. Regarding the political situation in Central…

Politics

Romania: Who is Trying to Shut whose Mouth and with What?

Modeste Schwartz August 11, 2018

Von Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Pro-migration, globalist and with a full of understanding of the LGBT agenda, the Romanian "Right", to reinvent itself after its historic defeat in December 2016, would have a hard time resorting to this "leap forward in identity…

Politics

White March in Bucharest: Romanian Awakening, or Beginning of the End of the PSD?

Modeste Schwartz June 19, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - After months of hesitation, during which it seemed that it would never be able to react, the ruling Social Democrat Party in Bucharest finally decided on Saturday, June 9, to take to the streets (a small) part…

Interviews

Péter Márki-Zay: “My hope would be for a technocrat government”

Nicolas de Lamberterie April 6, 2018

Hungary - Péter Marki-Zay: " My hope would be for a technocrat government, a managing government, whose primary purpose would be to restore democracy, freedom of the press, the state of law, the market economy, and the commitment to European integration. " …

Politics

Anna Horváth’s Case and What it Tells Us

Modeste Schwartz April 3, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - At the beginning of the 2000s, the socio-political situation of Romania, on the surface, was quite similar to the cliché which the mainstream Western press cherishes when it comes to “Eastern Europe”. The country – with the…

Society

Slovakia is calm again… for now

The Editorial Board March 26, 2018

Slovakia - A semblance of calm and stability seems to be returning to Slovakia, following the resignation of Slovakia's Prime Minister, Robert Fico, due to the pressure from civil society organizations, backed from abroad. After the assassination of the Slovakian journalist Ján…

Politics

Slovakia: major crisis after the assassination of a journalist and destabilization of the country by NGOs

The Editorial Board March 17, 2018

Slovakia - It all starts with the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend on February 25. Since then, Prime Minister Robert Fico and the Minister of the Interior have resigned, and NGOs mobilize the street to destabilize the government…

Politics

For corruption money, would you rather have 1200 Romanian lei or 18b. $?

Modeste Schwartz February 4, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On the 22th of January, Mrs. Cecilia Chirvăsuţă, a cardiologist working at the state hospital in the town of Tulcea (Eastern Romania) was sentenced to 4 years in jail for “accepting” from a patient an illegal extra…

Politics

Andrej Babiš welcomed in Bratislava and accused in Prague

The Editorial Board January 10, 2018

Slovakia, Bratislava - For his first official visit abroad, new Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia. Together with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico, they reaffirmed their desire, within the Visegrád Group, to oppose immigration. But meantime, the situation becomes…

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