European Union - The López Aguilar report on Poland was adopted by the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on July 16, 2020. The Sargentini report on Hungary was adopted by LIBE on June 25, 2018, and…
Hungary - Despite celebrations being somewhat diminished due to anti-COVID-19 measures, August 20th saw the inauguration of a memorial, in Budapest, to pre-Treay of Trianon Hungary in time for the 100th anniversary of that treaty. Following the end of the First World…
The Hungarian Military Force Development Program is increasingly acknowledged by allies. NATO member states admit that our country is no longer just a „security free rider” onboard the North Atlantic Alliance, but rather a reliable member that fulfills its commitments.
Since Hungary’s…
Abstract
In the past decade, Hungary has grown from a peripheral destination of Hollywood runaway productions into the second biggest European filming location. At the same time, after decades of absence from the domestic and international scenes, local productions have made a…
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…
Hungary - We didn’t have to wait long for the left to distort the recommendation from Attila Péterfalvi, leader of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH). Mr. Péterfalvi suggested that the government create legislation surrounding social media…
Hungary – On July 22, the editor-in-chief of Index, the most-read Hungarian news portal, was fired by its management board. This happened a month after Index’s board, well-known for its anti-government positions and liberal activism, started voicing their concerns about losing their…
Hungary - Interview with Péter Jakab, president of Jobbik, the Hungarian populist movement, formerly radical nationalist: “We will only be able to bring down this regime with the help of the other parties”.
At the beginning of June, Ferenc Almássy and Nicolas…
Who was Wacław Felczak? – A Hungarian Perspective
Fel-tsak or Fel-tʂak? Thanks to the different pronunciation in Polish and Hungarian, this question was quite common among the Hungarian participants on the Summer University in Krasiczyn, Poland, both in 2018 and 2019. A…
On the 8th of July, a webinar conference entitled "Europe Uncensored" has been held, gathering the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Serb President Aleksandar Vučić, the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and the MEP François-Xavier Bellamy. Here the transcript of Viktor…
Europe - The usual advocates of the European Union, and its politically correct doctrine, often assert that all opposition to their universalism amounts to calling for a return to nationalism, the far-right and war. Yet the numbers of those that wish to…
Having reacted faster to the COVID-19 pandemic than their Western European counterparts, the four countries of the Visegrád Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) were also among the first to reduce their lockdown measures – which were less stringent than…