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Jobbik: A Brief History of a Political 180

The Editorial Board May 5, 2019

By the Visegrád Post Editorial Staff Hungary - Long considered the most radical parliamentary party in Europe, over the course of only a few years, Jobbik has morphed into a centrist and pro-European Union party, completely abandoning its former radical rhetoric opposing…

Politics

Linking EU funds to rule of law and “European values”: a move against Poland and Hungary?

Olivier Bault April 18, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus. European Union - “The more I listen to Timmermans talk on rule of law and respond to questions, the more obvious it seems that spitzenkandidaten should temporarily leave their EU paid roles during…

Society

Romania Post-Referendum: X-ray of a Sick Society

Modeste Schwartz October 9, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On Saturday, October 6, and Sunday, October 7, just under 4 million Romanian citizens went to the polls to vote in the so-called “referendum on the family”, a little over 20% of the official electoral body (why…

Society

Will Romania Join the European Club of Normal Families? Behind the scenes of a referendum.

Modeste Schwartz October 7, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Since the 1990s, the increasing hegemony of the Soros galaxy on Romanian civil society has resulted in a continuous intensification of LGBT propaganda. After obtaining some rather uncontroversial reforms (such as the decriminalization of homosexuality), the LGBT…

Society

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…

Society

“Excuse me! Did you say ‘progress’?”

Gábor Tóth August 8, 2018

By Gábor Tóth. In the last few decades, the meaning of the word “progress” has changed so dramatically, it is hard sometimes to come to grips with it. In some countries of the once glorious West, when one says the word “progressive”,…

Politics

Johannis, Orbán, Netanyahu and “Dragnea’s Jews”: Cries and Whispers in Bucharest

Modeste Schwartz April 27, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - “I do not know what Mr. Dragnea is scheming over there with the Jews.” This rather unprofessional statement, publicly stated yesterday by an ethnically German EU head of state, and which, if it had been uttered, for…

Interviews

A. Petria: “Romania would have everything to gain by joining the Visegrád Group”

Modeste Schwartz November 22, 2017

Romania - Alexandru Petria, Romanian poet, prose writer and journalist : “Romania would have everything to gain by joining the Visegrád Group”. Modeste Schwartz wrote to Alexandru Petria; the two authors are used to be provocative elements on the Romanian internet, and Petria…

Politics

Poland: Fake News, massive patriotism and a new dawn

Ferenc Almássy November 13, 2017

By Ferenc Almássy. Poland, Warsaw - On November 11, 2017, tens of thousands of people marched in Warsaw during the Independence march, organized annually by a nationalist association, and which had as slogan for this year "We want God". The liberal left-wing…

Politics

Kövér in Cluj: Hungary sets the record straight

Modeste Schwartz August 18, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary/Romania - Viktor Orbán's annual speech in Tusnádfürdő, now widely followed and eagerly anticipated, even by members of the international press, generally contains political professions of faith and strategic road-maps which extend far beyond Magyar-Romanian relations, or those of…

Politics

Hungary: Birthrate versus Immigration

Ferenc Almássy June 22, 2017

Hungary - Conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is known for his anti-immigration rhetoric, and less for his natalist position. But these two go hand in hand. "[...] there are two distinct views in Europe today to consider [the decline and aging of…

Politics

Polish Sejm defend the family and freedom against the European Council

Olivier Bault October 25, 2016

By Olivier Bault. New attack against Poland are likely to happen, as Poland, like Hungary, is not afraid to defend the true European values. The European Affairs Committee of the Polish Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) has just issued a…