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Viktor Orbán’s latest criticism of Brussels’ hegemony is sparking fury

The Editorial Board May 19, 2023

Hungary/EU – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has once again criticized the European Union’s hegemonic, totalitarian drift. His numerous detractors in the EU are now attacking him for supposedly drawing a parallel between today’s EU and Hitler’s Third Reich, which is clearly…

Society

Surveys show Poles and Hungarians continue to like each other despite serious differences over Ukraine and Russia

Olivier Bault April 23, 2023

Poland/Hungary - Poland and Hungary, whose century-old friendship is often presented as the driving force behind the Visegrád Group, or V4, and more generally behind cooperative initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe (such as Visegrád+ and the Three Seas Initiative), have opposite…

Interviews

Grégor Puppinck: “If Poland chooses a liberal government, it will undergo a cultural revolution”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 20, 2023

Interview with Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ): “If Poland chooses a liberal government, the country will undergo an Irish-style cultural revolution. This would mean a cultural reversal and a big shift towards an excessively liberal…

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Number of non-European migrants shooting up in Czechia

The Editorial Board February 9, 2023

Czechia – Covid-19, the Russian–Ukrainian war, and the energy crisis had pushed the issue of illegal immigration to the back burner, but Czechia’s newest statistics show that it is still present and getting worse. According to Czech police figures, the…

Politics

Polish judges at the ECHR: power struggle between the Council of Europe and Poland

Partenaire January 26, 2023

Originally published on the website of the European Center for Law and Justice on 24 January 2023. In the coming days, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is due to elect the Polish judge who will sit on the European Court…

News

ETIAS, the European Union’s new control system

The Editorial Board January 13, 2023

European Union – The EU’s new ETIAS border control system is scheduled to begin operating in November 2023. Most citizens of the 60 countries currently exempted from visas for tourist travel will soon have to fill in an online form and pay…

News

Gesture from Kyiv towards national minorities leaves Budapest sceptical

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

Ukraine – In the midst of the war with Russia, on 13 December, the Ukrainian parliament amended (by 324 votes out of 421) the law on national minorities, thus fulfilling one of the necessary conditions to start negotiations for membership of the…

Politics

Schengen: Romania and Bulgaria vetoed by Rotterdam’s lobby and Austrian hypocrisy

Nicolas de Lamberterie December 21, 2022

European Union - The interior ministers of the 27 European Union member states met in Brussels on December 8 to decide on adding three additional countries to the bloc’s Schengen Zone: Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Romania had joined the EU…

News

Prague denounces Hungarian “transphobia”

The Editorial Board December 21, 2022

Hungary – The Czech Presidency of the EU Council sent a letter in early December to the ambassadors of the 27 member states warning them that the “transphobia of one delegation” threatens the European position as a spearhead for this issue on…

Politics

Polish draft law written in Brussels to unlock EU funds stirs turmoil back home

The Editorial Board December 19, 2022

Poland – The Polish government announced on Wednesday that an agreement had been brokered with the European Commission on the contentious points of Poland’s justice reforms, invoked by Brussels to block the payment of the 35.4 billion euros corresponding to the Polish…

News

Hungary and the European Union to bury the hatchet, at least for the time being

The Editorial Board December 16, 2022

Hungary/European Union – At the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) that took place on Monday, 12 December, Hungarian representatives finally came to an agreement with their European counterparts on the four issues that remained unresolved after the meeting of finance…

News

European Conservatives and Reformists’ summit in Warsaw

The Editorial Board December 6, 2022

Poland – The various parties belonging to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament met in Warsaw on Saturday, 3 December. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended in person, while his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, as well…

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