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Viktor Orbán and Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Paris about nuclear energy

The Editorial Board March 17, 2023

Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Paris on Monday, 13 March, where he was received by French President Emmanuel Macron for a working dinner at the Élysée Palace. The two leaders discussed the Russian-Ukrainian war and the development of the…

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Did Emmanuel Macron offer Pope Francis a stolen book from Poland?

The Editorial Board October 26, 2022

Poland/France/Vatican – A photo of the copy of Immanuel Kant’s Project for a Perpetual Peace offered by the French president to Pope Francis, whom he met at the Vatican on Monday, is causing a stir in Poland. On the photo of this…

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Macron and the Polish illusions

The Editorial Board January 29, 2022

The French president’s speech to the European Parliament does not bode well. An editorial by Paweł Lisicki, editor-in-chief of the influential Polish conservative weekly Do Rzeczy, published in the 24 January 2022 issue under the title “‘Wszystko to wróży jak najgorzej’. Macron…

Society

France and nuclear power, an opportunity for Europe?

Thibaud Gibelin December 29, 2021

In our industrial societies, energy policies are steeped in paradox. Ideology versus pragmatism, ecology versus economic appetites, idealistic sobriety versus materialist hedonism. Nothing should be further from energy policies than announcement effects or emotional reactions. But in our troubled times nothing escapes…

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Matovič visits Macron in France

The Editorial Board February 2, 2021

Slovakia - On Wednesday Igor Matovič Slovak Prime minister goes to an official visit to France. The Slovakian Prime Minister will meet the President of the French Republic, Emanuel Macron on Wednesday. According to the press office of the government on the…

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Why Hungary and Poland, and not Italy and France?

Olivier Bault August 5, 2020

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…

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With a pandemic raging, Europe closes its borders to illegal immigration, at last!

Olivier Bault May 4, 2020

European Union - At the beginning of March Hungary de facto suspended the possibility of filing for asylum by forbidding asylum seekers access to border transit zones. The decision was officially linked to the propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was explained…

Society

Media pluralism in Poland and Hungary compared to France

Olivier Bault March 5, 2020

By Olivier Bault. Originally published in English on Kurier.plus. Poland/Hungary/France - The 2019 edition of the World Press Freedom Index puts Poland and Hungary respectively in 59th and 87th position out of 180 countries. 2019 World Press Freedom Index. Source: https://rsf.org/en/ranking Both…

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Immigration to the EU on the rise, but relocation is dead – despite Italy having (temporarily) changed sides

Olivier Bault October 25, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation European Union - Salvini has – at least for now – failed in his attempt to trigger new elections in Italy, which would almost certainly…

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Viktor Orbán visited Macron in Paris

Thibaud Gibelin October 12, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Hungary - While it was a highly awaited meeting... it has been paradoxically surrounded by a strange silence. On Friday, October 11, The Hungarian Prime minister was the guest of Emmanuel Macron for a lunch at the Elysee palace…

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Poland and Hungary outperforming most other EU economies, at least partly through not adopting the euro

Olivier Bault August 1, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus. Central Europe - According to the European Commission’s forecasts, Poland and Hungary will be the joint second fastest growing economies in the EU this year, after Malta. The EC has raised its…

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The new Franco-German Treaty: Should the rest of the EU be Concerned?

Olivier Bault March 21, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Originally published on kurier.plus. Europe - The new Franco-German treaty “of cooperation and integration” signed on January 22 in Aachen, the former capital of Charlemagne’s Frankish empire from which both nations trace their origins, does not represent a breakthrough…