By Ferenc Almássy.
Ukraine, Transcarpathia / Subcarpathia - Recently, many articles have been published, all more alarmists than the others, on the situation of Hungarians in Ukraine. Everything is definitely not fine, but a warm down and a clarification are needed as…
Hungary - On Sunday, February 18, Viktor Orbán held his annual state of the nation address at the castle of Budapest. 6 weeks ahead of the elections that, according to the polls, he will probably win again, for a third time in…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Further installment in the case of the Marosvásárhely / Târgu-Mureş Hungarian Catholic High School: the law which makes possible the functioning of this institution – which for a number of years has been at the center of…
By Ferenc Almássy.
Central Europe - The Visegrád Group is 27 years old on February 15, 2018. Never has its influence been so important.
Created on 15 February 1991 by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (which split into two states, the Czech Republic…
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…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Let’s set the scene first:
Apart from speculations (some more or less scientific, others frankly zany) surrounding their distant origin, the Szeklers have for centuries been a small Hungarian-speaking mountain-dwelling population, nestled in the centre of the…
Article originally published on Hungary Today.
Hungary - The European Commission’s decision to launch Article 7.1 procedure against Poland over its judicial reforms is “unprecedented and astounding”, Zsolt Semjén, Hungary’s deputy prime minister said, adding that Hungary may veto it.
The decision seriously…
Hungary, Ásotthalom - László Toroczkai, Hungarian mayor of the Ásotthalom municipality on the border with Serbia and Vice President of Jobbik: "If the Four of Visegrád manage to stay strong and united, then there is hope that the European Union will survive"…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Henceforth sheltered – thanks to the cold – from the competition of country picnics and outdoor barbecues, the Soros galaxy of Romania and other “civil societies” duly infiltrated by the “secret” services can now resume their revolutionary…
Hungary - Hungarian Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás declared that "there will be no mosques in Hungary", and argued that "from the perspective of our own security, mosques would have a negative impact."
Bayer Zsolt, the sulphurous political TV show host and well-known…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary / Romania - Even before the historical defeat suffered by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP in Hungarian) in 2010, its leader of the 2000s, F. Gyurcsány – a “man of the left” as the IMF likes them: himself…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Last week the Visegrád Post published the official English translation of an interview given by Viktor Orbán to a small provincial newspaper for Romania’s Hungarian minority (Bihari Napló, i.e. “Bihar Daily”). Those readers less familiar with…