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This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on May 10, 2021. Hungary agrees with the objectives set out in the action plan discussed in Porto. Our priorities include increasing employment, effective adult education, and fighting against poverty. We can…

Magyar Nemzet

Interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the Slovak Internet portal postoj.sk

Partenaire May 8, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on May 6, 2021. – Let’s begin with the hottest topic of the past few months, with vaccines. – Yes, but there is an even hotter topic. Why are we sitting here, after…

Politics

EU Stimulus Package: Hungary plays the Commission’s game

Yann Caspar April 26, 2021

Hungary – EU member states have until 30 April to submit a plan for the usage of the 672.5 billion Euros that the Commission is going to levy from the financial markets during the next four years. This levy, entitled “Recovery and…

Politics

Press statement by Viktor Orbán after his talks with Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland and Matteo Salvini, President of the Italian government party Lega

The Editorial Board April 7, 2021

Press statement by Viktor Orbán after his talks with Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland and Matteo Salvini, President of the Italian government party Lega 1 April 2021, Budapest Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. No matter how much one wants to deal with…

Magyar Nemzet

Old dreams could come back to life

Partenaire March 30, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 28, 2021. The question of „quo vadis, union, quo vadis, Europe?” appears more and more often in European public opinion – especially considering that the current European Commission (not) lead by…

Interviews

Marek Jurek: ‘Yes to Family, No to Gender’ – A citizens’ bill for Poland to pull out of the Istanbul Convention

Olivier Bault March 24, 2021

Interview with Marek Jurek, former Marshal (President) of the Polish Sejm in 2005–07, former Member of the European Parliament in 2014–19, founding member of the Right of the Republic party (Prawica Rzeczypospolitej), leader of the Christian Social Congress (Chrześcijański Kongres Społeczny). Together…

Society

Three-quarters of European citizens consider the rights to security and protection of life more important than freedoms

Partenaire March 21, 2021

This article has been published online on December 8, 2020 on the site of the Századvég Institute. In recent years, security and order and the conflict between human rights and political freedoms, such as mass migration and terrorism, have often been an issue.…

Society

Are media freedom and pluralism really under threat in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 19, 2021

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…

Magyar Nemzet

You are not the troublemakers of the EU!

Partenaire March 6, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 6, 2021. I have been visiting wonderful Hungary since 1978. In Eger the Szépasszony valley, the Lake Balaton and many more places in the that I got to know; I grew…

Magyar Nemzet

Katalin Novák: Fidesz leaves EPP due to hostile move

Partenaire March 4, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 4, 2021. We will not let our MEPs be silenced or limited in their capacity to represent our voters – Katalin Novák, Vice-President of Fidesz responsible for foreign affairs, told…

Politics

It’s EU kindergarten time!

Bill Ravotti February 28, 2021

Slovenia is the target this time, as the EU Commission condemns Slovenian Premier's criticism of a left-wing reporter. Why? A free media requires dissenting opinions, open debate and hard-hitting from both sides...or it’s not really free. PM Janša must have struck a…

Politics

Has Salvini betrayed?

Bill Ravotti February 23, 2021

Matteo Salvini has joined the Draghi regime in Italy and appears to be embracing the EU establishment, at least for now. Is this a permanent makeover for Lega and Salvini, or a strategic move for the future? A senior party official says…