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American Left interfering in Poland’s Oct. 15 elections after failed attempt in Hungary last year – Interview

Olivier Bault October 25, 2023

“Hungary’s left-wing media tycoon Zoltán Varga is being introduced into the Polish media market by Soros’ Pluralis B.V. right before the Polish elections. Interestingly, they do not even seem to care about the timing any more. A couple of years ago you…

Society

Media academy launched by Hungarian leftist-liberal media outlet with US tax dollars

Partenaire January 16, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism on 4 January 2023. In the land of Viktor Orbán, the so-called “free and independent” press is so muzzled that it can easily receive over $700,000 from Washington to set…

Society

Western media silence over massive US funding of Hungarian opposition

The Editorial Board January 5, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism, 22 December 2022. In Hungary, the fiasco of Péter Márki-Zay, an unsuccessful and extraordinarily clumsy candidate in the April 2022 parliamentary elections, is still unfolding. Last summer, Márki-Zay admitted that…

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Hungarian parliament publishes report on secret financing of opposition by US organisation

The Editorial Board November 29, 2022

Hungary – This news has struck Hungarian political life like a clap of thunder. As reported by Mandiner, Magyar Nemzet, and other Hungarian media on 23 November, the Hungarian parliament published a report on 17 November that had been prepared by the…

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Hungarian opposition furious over U.S. money for Márki-Zay’s campaign

The Editorial Board November 14, 2022

Hungary – On 16 October, Péter Márki-Zay, Viktor Orbán’s unsuccessful opponent in last April’s parliamentary elections, admitted on his Facebook account that his Hungary for All Movement (MMM) had received 1.8 billion forints (4.4 million euros) from American funds during his election…

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Is the American ambassador trying to influence Hungary’s top judges?

Olivier Bault November 4, 2022

Hungary – On Thursday, 27 October, U.S. ambassador to Hungary David Pressman posted a tweet about his meeting with two judges of the Hungarian National Judicial Council, Csaba Vasvári and Tamás Matusik. He wrote that it was an opportunity for him to…

Magyar Nemzet

Facebook’s newest restrictions may severely violate democracy

Partenaire April 13, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on April 13, 2021. The tech company can intervene in domestic politics with the click of a button. Facebook’s limitations last Friday, which drastically limited the availability of content shared by politicians,…

Politics

Ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Poland, Brussels comes to the opposition’s rescue. Again.

Olivier Bault October 11, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The manoeuvres are pretty crude, but Poles are now getting used to this kind of practice. In the same way that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered an interim order against Poland two days before the…

Society

The international LGBT offensive in Catholic Poland

Olivier Bault July 1, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In Poland, as elsewhere, the months of May and June are the season of “Equality Parades”, as they are still called in the homeland of Saint John Paul II. These marches are free of the obscene behaviour…

Politics

Slovakia: major crisis after the assassination of a journalist and destabilization of the country by NGOs

The Editorial Board March 17, 2018

Slovakia - It all starts with the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend on February 25. Since then, Prime Minister Robert Fico and the Minister of the Interior have resigned, and NGOs mobilize the street to destabilize the government…