Poland - History repeats itself: the Germans want to save the world for their own good, the British want nothing more to do with the continent, the Russians loot in war rather than fight - and the Poles heroically fight on the…
Poland/Germany – The war in Ukraine is continuously feeding the daily flow of Ukrainian refugees in its neighbouring countries (4.1 million according to the latest UNHCR figures dated 31 March, including almost 2.4 million in Poland), the Polish and German governments asked,…
Ukraine/Germany – Speaking on Sunday, 6 March on the weekly political programme presented by Anne Will on the first German television channel, ARD, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba insisted on his country’s refusal to give up its sovereignty and he pointed…
This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 5 March 2022.
“The fight against antisemitism must take precedence over political commitments at home and in Germany,” wrote Slomó Köves in his open letter to Olaf Scholz. The chief rabbi of…
Germany/Poland – Usually this is is a little known issue outside of Poland. Poland demands recognition by Germany of its Polish minority, a demand essentially supported at the political level by the PiS and the national-conservatives of Konfederacja. While Berlin turns a…
Poland/Germany – In the face of growing tension between Russia and Ukraine, most Central European countries – Hungary being the exception – have closed ranks and stand in solidarity with Ukraine, whose sovereignty they consider threatened by repeated Russian army drills on…
In our industrial societies, energy policies are steeped in paradox. Ideology versus pragmatism, ecology versus economic appetites, idealistic sobriety versus materialist hedonism. Nothing should be further from energy policies than announcement effects or emotional reactions. But in our troubled times nothing escapes…
France / Hungary / V4 - The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, visited Hungary on Monday, December 13, where he began with a visit to the tomb of the Marxist philosopher Ágnes Heller, before meeting with his Hungarian counterpart János…
Poland – The Polish liberal opposition is once again in turmoil. Polish Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Romanowski spoke on TV Trwam about the latest developments in the conflicts between Poland and the European Union's leadership:
"There is no doubt, looking at the…
Poland/Czech Republic – The Czech-Polish negotiations over the Turów open-pit mine do not seem to be leading to an amicable solution as quickly as Poland would like. After announcing – somewhat hastily – on 25 May that he had reached an agreement…
Bence Bauer is a lawyer by training. He lived in Germany for more than twenty years before becoming the deputy head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Budapest. Today, he heads the German-Hungarian Institute at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a higher education…
Hungary – Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó visited St. Petersburg at the end of August to meet with Gazprom Group CEO Alexei Miller. The two men then agreed on the details of a new long-term contract for the purchase of Russian gas…