Orbán indicated that he wanted to form a party with Matteo Salvini (Italy) and the PiS of Poland. However, what was once possible in 2019 (when Orbán decided to stay with EPP), may prove more difficult today.
Salvini, whose Lega party is…
Poland - On Wednesday, March 10, the European Parliament held a plenary debate on “Government attempts to silence free media in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia”. That discussion had been announced a week earlier on the European Parliament’s website, in a newsletter titled…
Poland - “If someone from the opposition was now leading in the opinion polls, what would happen if the executive power declared a state of emergency in order to postpone the election?”, Krzysztof Szczerski, head of the Chancellery of the President of…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
European Union - Meeting in Sibiu, Romania, for a European Council on May 9, European heads of state and government discussed whether the Spitzenkandidaten system – first used to choose the head…
By Olivier Bault.
Originally published on kurier.plus.
Europe - The new Franco-German treaty “of cooperation and integration” signed on January 22 in Aachen, the former capital of Charlemagne’s Frankish empire from which both nations trace their origins, does not represent a breakthrough…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published in the French daily paper Présent.
Poland – As we might have expected it, the Liberals and particularly the ones of the Civic Platform (PO) of Donald Tusk, did not even waited until the…
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament : "The Visegrad Group demonstrates to Western Europe that an other way is possible".
In November 2018, as the Visegrád Post covered the 100th anniversary of the recovery of Poland's independence, Olivier Bault met with Jacek…
By Olivier Bault.
Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV on October 17, 2018.
Poland - Adopted on 12 October by representatives of 46 countries, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Resolution 2246 (2018) calls on Russia to return to Poland…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The Poles voted on Sunday, October 21, to elect their mayors, municipal councilors, councilors in the powiats (cantons) and advisers for the voivodedship sejmik (regional councils) of the sixteen voivodeships in the country. A journalist from public…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Réinformation TV. Translated from French by Visegrád Post.
Poland – Visiting Warsaw from the 19 to the 21 September 2018, a delegation of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs…
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,…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Forty days occupation of the Sejm by disabled persons and their relatives
The last 27th of May, a forty days occupation of the corridors of the Sejm (the Polish lower house) by disabled adults and their…