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Hungary to get Israeli Iron Dome

The Editorial Board November 29, 2022

Hungary – As the conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported on Monday, 21 November, Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky has announced that the Hungarian army will soon be equipped with a “world-class Israeli radar system capable of detecting and tracking air and…

Politics

Restitution of property: tempers flare between Israel and Poland

Olivier Bault August 23, 2021

Poland – Accusations of anti-Semitism by Israel’s foreign minister, after the Polish president ratified a law on the restitution of property unlawfully confiscated after World War II, have plunged Warsaw and Tel Aviv into a crisis unprecedented since the fall of communism…

Magyar Nemzet

Several European countries used Pegasus

Partenaire July 24, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 23, July 2021. Multiple European countries, including the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Greece, Poland and Lithuania also used the Israeli spyware, Pegasus, according to a 2018 study from the Canadian…

News

Have Hungarian opponents been spied on with Israeli software?

The Editorial Board July 20, 2021

Hungary – The Hungarian news site Direkt36 revealed on Monday morning that an international journalistic investigation involving 17 left-wing newspapers (including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Le Monde) had allegedly uncovered evidence that the Hungarian authorities had been…

Politics

Restitution issue once again at the center of tensions between Poland and Israel

Olivier Bault July 3, 2021

Poland – The issue of the restitution of real estate that belonged to Jewish families returned to the forefront with a new Polish law adopted by the Sejm on June 24, and a new emotional reaction – largely disconnected from reality –…

Society

An embarrassing appointment at the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)

Olivier Bault February 26, 2021

A controversy broke out in Poland after February 9, when the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) appointed Tomasz Greniuch, a historian and former activist of the nationalist organization ONR, as acting director of its branch office in Wrocław. The ONR, or “national-radical…

Society

Defamation lawsuit over Polish complicity in the Holocaust reignites controversy

Olivier Bault February 19, 2021

A defamation lawsuit brought in Poland by an elderly woman has quickly gained international prominence. The reason is the subject to which it relates: the role of Poles in the genocide perpetrated against Jews on Polish territory occupied by Nazi Germany. The…

Politics

Auschwitz commemorations in Jerusalem without the President of Poland

The Editorial Board January 25, 2020

By Rafał Ziemkiewicz. Polish President Andrzej Duda announced at the beginning of January that he would not take part in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. The organizers of the commemorations, held on 23…

Politics

“PM Orbán: 2019 was about elections; the next two years will be about governing”

The Editorial Board January 10, 2020

By Zoltán Kovács. Article originally published on About Hungary, the blog of the International Communications Office of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary. Hungary - It was a no-holds barred, nearly three-hour-long, press conference with more than one…

Politics

JUST Act 447, the American law which could undermine the privileged relationship between Warsaw and Washington

Olivier Bault June 20, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Law and Justice party (PiS) which came to power in Poland with the elections of 2015 has always seemed more attached to transatlantic ties than to further EU integration. At the NATO summit in Warsaw in…

Interviews

László Bogár: “Our region is once again becoming a buffer zone whose geopolitical value is growing steadily” – 2/2

Modeste Schwartz April 5, 2019

Interview with László Bogár, economist and university professor, former MP and former State Secretary of Hungary, publicist: “Our region is once again becoming a buffer zone whose geopolitical value is growing steadily”. Part 1/2 can be read by clicking here. You…

Politics

Under pressure from the USA, Poland steps back on its memorial law

Olivier Bault July 3, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Polish and Israeli Prime Ministers signed a common declaration to end the dispute. The amendments to the Polish memorial law concerning the Shoah and the Nazi crimes committed in Poland at the origin…