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Kulturkampf in Hungary, goodbye “gender studies” – and it’s only the beginning

Ferenc Almássy August 25, 2018

By Ferenc Almássy. Hungary - The teaching of "gender studies" is no longer financed in Hungary. This is part of an important "cultural and ideological war", redrawing the political, cultural and intellectual landscape of Hungary. It fell this summer, in the middle…

Politics

The improvement of the relations between Trump’s United States and Orbán’s Hungary, a consequence of a substantial change at the State Department

Olivier Bault August 7, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Hungary - The cancellation of a contest organised by the US State Department in order to assign 700.000 dollars to Hungarian opposition media of the countryside illustrates a turning point in the relations between Washington and Budapest. This…

Politics

Tusványos Speech: Goals and Dodges of Striker Orbán at the Best of his Form

Modeste Schwartz July 30, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - For almost three decades, the very charismatic Prime Minister has accustomed the Hungarian and international opinion to the now traditional speech of Tusványos (named after the festival organized every year at the end of July in the…

Politics

“Say goodbye to the entire elite of ’68”, the new project of Viktor Orbán – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board July 30, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 29 th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp 28 July 2018, Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad) Good morning to you all. It is an honour to be here again, and to be…

Politics

Black Sea Gas: Dragnea Defeats the Deep State with its Own Weapons

Modeste Schwartz July 15, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On July 9, 2018, the Romanian parliament wrote the final chapter of an energy drama that had remained relatively unseen for a long time, finally breaking out only a few weeks ago – though it had probably…

Politics

Romania’s Deep State Will Stop at Nothing to Separate Bucharest from Budapest

Modeste Schwartz July 5, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Yesterday, July 4 2018, the Romanian Supreme Court – having the final word after a long series of appeals – sentenced two Szekler activists (István Beke and Zoltán Szőcs) to 5 years in prison, causing national outrage…

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

The Visegrád Group and Austria Interior Ministers met in Budapest – strengthening of the regional cooperation on migration

The Editorial Board June 28, 2018

Article originally published on The Hungary Journal. Hungary - Interior ministers of the four Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – and their Austrian counterpart met for talks in Budapest on Tuesday. After the talks, Hungary’s Sandor Pinter called…

Politics

“The liberal order is collapsing”: the harsh statement of Viktor Orbán; FULL SPEECH at a conference held in memory of Helmut Kohl

The Editorial Board June 25, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at a conference held in memory of Helmut Kohl 16 June 2018, Budapest Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, President Spengler, President Zoltán Balog, I…

Politics

Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

Culture

Goodbye Pistol Pista, goodbye Mr. István Lovas!

Nicolas de Lamberterie June 17, 2018

By Nicolas de Lamberterie “Lovas is dead” “Lovas is dead.” Those were the three terrible words to which I awakened on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. How could I believe that it was possible when, only two weeks before, I had spent an…