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Hungarian Local Election: Not a Defeat, but a Warning

Modeste Schwartz October 14, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Hungary - The (very relative, but real) drop of the FIDESZ-KDNP government coalition in last Sunday's local elections will, of course, be interpreted by the Hungarian opposition as a (starting) disavowal at the national level of Viktor Orbán's policies.…

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Hungary’s Local Elections: a Sour 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…

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Obstacles left by the outgoing Juncker Commission to improved relations with Warsaw and Budapest

Olivier Bault September 14, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally publishedon Kurier.plusby the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation European Union - While Poland and Hungary can hardly count on the new European Parliament constituted after the May 23–26 elections to take a less offensive…

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A common Polish-Hungarian School of Leaders to foster a better future for Europe

Olivier Bault September 7, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Krasiczyn Castle in southeast Poland, near the city of Przemyśl, hosted some 350 young Hungarians and Poles from 26-30 August for the second edition of a new annual event: the Polish-Hungarian School of Leaders,organised in the form…

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Orbán’s full speech at Tusványos: political philosophy, upcoming crisis and projects for the next 15 years

The Editorial Board July 29, 2019

By the editorial board. Hungary - Each year, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Transylvania - a region formerly Hungarian, of which many parts are still inhabited by a majority of Hungarians, and…

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Orbán’s answers to EPP letter

The Editorial Board June 18, 2019

By the editorial board. Hungary - After a long confrontation between Viktor Orbán and the EPP leaders, and following the European elections, Viktor Orbán had to answer questions from the "Wise Men" of the EPP. You can read the questions of the…

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Overview of the European Parliament Elections Results in the V4

The Editorial Board May 27, 2019

By the editorial board of the Visegrád Post. Visegrád Group - As everywhere else in the European Union, turnout in the European election has been low in the V4 countries. However, in each of the four countries of the Visegrád Group, the…

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Why the Spitzenkandidaten mechanism compromises the European Commission’s impartiality and is a cause of EU attacks against Poland and Hungary

Olivier Bault May 24, 2019

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…

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Orbán Drops Weber

The Editorial Board May 6, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff. Hungary - The saga of Fidesz and the EPP has seen a turning point on Monday, May 6, 2019: three weeks ahead of the European elections, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received in Budapest the…

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Jobbik: A Brief History of a Political 180

The Editorial Board May 5, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff Hungary - Long considered the most radical parliamentary party in Europe, over the course of only a few years, Jobbik has morphed into a centrist and pro-European Union party, completely abandoning its former radical rhetoric opposing…

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Transylvanian pre-electoral chess: the bishop’s game

Modeste Schwartz May 2, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - On April 25, László Tőkés, a bishop of the Transylvanian-Hungarian Calvinist Church and already legendary freedom-fighter of the Hungarian minority in Romania, who is also a FIDESZ MEP, paid a visit to MM. István Beke and Zoltán…

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Linking EU funds to rule of law and “European values”: a move against Poland and Hungary?

Olivier Bault April 18, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus. European Union - “The more I listen to Timmermans talk on rule of law and respond to questions, the more obvious it seems that spitzenkandidaten should temporarily leave their EU paid roles during…