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Immigration: Merkel Finally Agrees With The Visegrad Group

The Editorial Board February 8, 2019

Slovakia, Bratislava - On this Thursday, February 7, 2019, leaders of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) gathered in Bratislava for a summit, along with a special guest: German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And on the issue of immigration, the V4 seems…

Interviews

László Bogár: “They will have to unite the German, Italian and French budgets, otherwise the euro will fall” – 1/2

Modeste Schwartz January 28, 2019

Interview with László Bogár, economist and university professor, former MP and former State Secretary of Hungary, publicist: "They will have to unite the German, Italian and French budgets, otherwise the euro will fall." Part 1/2. At the end of November 2018, Raoul…

Society

The Problems Surrounding Hungary’s “Slavery Law”: Fake News?

Modeste Schwartz December 14, 2018

Hungary - The Hungarian parliament adopted on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, an amendment to the labor law, including the increase of the number of legal overtime hours per year from 250 to 400 maximum (a misleading broad range used by the opposition,…

Politics

China – Central Europe: an intensified rapprochement through the 16+1 initiative

Ferenc Almássy July 29, 2018

By Ferenc Almássy. Not everybody likes the rapprochement between China and Central Europe. Wishing to take its future in its own hand, Central Europe is looking for diminishing more and more its dependence as a peripheral zone of Western Europe and…

Politics

Viktor Orbán Expects a New Global Financial Crisis

Modeste Schwartz July 1, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Central Europe - For more than a month, the currencies of Central Europe (a term that, for my part, I always use in a conventional/geographical sense: post-communist Europe outside the former USSR) have dropped against Western currencies – …

Politics

European Summit: small victory for the V4

The Editorial Board June 30, 2018

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…

Politics

What is the significance of Visegrád?

Gábor Tóth June 5, 2018

By Gábor Tóth, President of the Gateway to Europe, V4-China Association. Visegrád Group - As the political turmoil in Italy continues, the Visegrad group stands out more and more as the island of common sense, stability, long-term thinking and old European values.…

Society

E.U.’s Energy Policy: a Threat to Poland?

Antoine de Longevialle April 30, 2018

Poland - ‘Poland today is not a country that can show Europe the way, it's a country that has decided to go against European interests in many areas’, French president Macron said at a press conference in Bulgaria, in August 2017. This…

Politics

Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe: does France risk a divorce on the Rhine ?

Thibaud Gibelin April 24, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union - Emmanuel Macron is he man of the ”great leap forward” in terms of European integration. The explicit reluctance of the Visegrád Group is being brushed aside: the reform concerns first the euro zone, and the ones…

Politics

Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe – 1/2

Thibaud Gibelin April 18, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union – On Sunday April 15th the French President Emmanuel Macron gave a TV interview of around three hours. Halfway between his comfortable election in last May and the European elections of 2019, the event had the form…

Politics

Why do they Want the Head of Viktor Orbán?

Modeste Schwartz March 27, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - Geopolitical implications of the Hungarian Elections of April 8. After a contextual presentation of the current actors on the Hungarian political scene on the eve of the April 8 elections, followed by a socio-cultural analysis of the…

Society

Central Europe and the European economy

Thibaud Gibelin March 13, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Central Europe - Economic competition confronts Europe with the rest of the world, but first of all European countries with each other. The political dispute over migration quotas has recently crystallized one of the economical tensions that runs across…