Europe - “The ‘systemic threats to the rule of law’ and of democracy may not be where one would think”, and “it will have escaped no one's notice that such power left in the hands of the European institutions can be turned…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - This time the French mainstream media were much more vocal than during the French president’s October meeting with the Hungarian premier in Paris. Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Warsaw on February 3–4 was described as a turning point…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation.
Central Europe - Budapest hosted its third demographic summit on September 5–6, attended by representatives from several Central European governments, including Czech PM Andrej Babiš,…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation
European Union - Salvini has – at least for now – failed in his attempt to trigger new elections in Italy, which would almost certainly…
By Thibaud Cassel.
Hungary - While it was a highly awaited meeting... it has been paradoxically surrounded by a strange silence. On Friday, October 11, The Hungarian Prime minister was the guest of Emmanuel Macron for a lunch at the Elysee palace…
By Raoul Weiss.
Europe - The answer given by Annegrete Kramp-Karrenbauer (the now famous AKK, announced successor of Angela Merkel at the head of the CDU) to Emmanuel Macron has already attracted many French comments (including an excellent analysis byMichel Drac). Nevertheless,…
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 Thibaud Cassel.
Part 1/3 here! - Part 2/3 here! - 3/3 - Part 3: Romania on the wire - The Celebration of the centenary of modern Romania on December 1, 2019.
The "evil wind" coming from the East, denounced by 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 Ferenc Almássy.
European Union - On 26 and 27 October 2018, the President of the French Republic visited Slovakia and Czechia. Once again, the French President tried to divide central Europe. In a context of electoral campaign on a continental scale,…
“This is blackmail. We are sick of it”.
Hungary – In an interview given to Die Presse, the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó attacked his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, rejected the accusations about the so called “lack of solidarity”…
On Thursday 28 and Friday 29 of June the leaders of the 28 Member States of the European Union met in Brussels for a summit to discuss in particular migration policy at a European scale. A summit that has brought some progress…