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Mass Migration Always Has Unpleasant Consequences – Do We Know That?

The Editorial Board May 17, 2022

This editorial was published on April 28, 2022, in Czech language in the daily newspaper “Lidovénoviny”. By Václav Klaus and Jiří Weigl. Czechia - Ukrainians in their hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, are seeking refuge from war abroad, in huge numbers…

Politics

Lessons from the migration crisis at the Belarusian border

David Engels December 15, 2021

Lessons from the migration crisis at the Belarusian border: When charity is extorted by force, this is called robbery Poland – The well-known Twitter site "Visegrad 24" recently wrote: "When someone knocks on your door and asks you to come in and…

News

Andrej Babiš offers to send 150 soldiers to Polish-Belarusian border

The Editorial Board December 13, 2021

Czechia/Poland – Outgoing Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) announced on Tuesday (December 7th) that he would ask the two chambers of the Czech parliament to authorise the sending of 150 Czech soldiers to assist their Polish colleagues on the Polish-Belarusian border…

News

Budapest: V4 summit on immigration

The Editorial Board November 25, 2021

Visegrád Group – The heads of governments of the Visegrád Group met on 23 November in Budapest, at the initiative of Poland, to discuss migration issues in the context of the migration crisis at the Polish–Belarusian border. An attempt to destabilise the…

News

Like Lithuania and Poland, Latvia to build barrier on border with Belarus

The Editorial Board November 19, 2021

Latvia/Belarus – While the news spotlight has been focused on the situation at the Polish–Belarusian border, particularly at the Kuźnica border crossing in the Podlaskie voivodship, and also, to a lesser extent, on the situation in Lithuania , a…

Politics

Poland stands firm against groups of “migrants” brought in from Belarus

Olivier Bault November 16, 2021

Poland/Belarus – Tensions continue to rise on Poland’s eastern border. On Saturday, accompanying a group of about 100 migrants to whom they had apparently supplied tear gas, Belarusian soldiers ripped out a portion of border wire while blinding Polish soldiers with searchlights…

News

Péter Szijjártó thanks Poland for stopping migrants

The Editorial Board November 15, 2021

Hungary/Poland – Following a telephone conversation with his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, on the evening of Wednesday 10 November, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó posted a message of support for Poland on his Facebook account , thanking the Polish authorities for…

News

Hundreds of migrants attempt to force their way across the border between Belarus and Poland

The Editorial Board November 10, 2021

Poland/Belarus - The tension that had been growing for several months now at the Polish-Belarusian border suddenly reached a new height on Monday, 8 November, when hundreds of migrants – apparently mostly Iraqis – tried to force their way across the border…

Magyar Nemzet

Viktor Orbán’s letter to Ursula von der Leyen on migration

Partenaire November 3, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 3 November 2021. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote a letter to the President of the European Commission addressing the escalating migrant crisis. Magyar Nemzet had a look at the letter: the Prime Minister made…

Politics

Poland struggles to stop onslaught of migrants despite EU attacks

Olivier Bault November 2, 2021

Poland/Belarus – On Wednesday, the Polish Senate passed an amended version of a bill to allow the construction of an anti-migrant barrier on the border with Belarus. It is already known that the barrier planned to stop the migration wave orchestrated by…

News

Poland set to build a wall on its eastern border

The Editorial Board October 12, 2021

Poland – Faced with a migration crisis provoked by the Belarusian regime on their eastern border, the Polish authorities are working hard to find a solution. They are now planning to build not just a fence but a wall to stop migrants,…

Interviews

Tereza Hyťhová: “The V4 is the future of cooperation, as the EU could very well disappear”

Alimuddin Usmani October 8, 2021

Interview with Tereza Hyťhová, Czech MP from the Trikolora party: “The V4 represents the future of cooperation at all levels because we have to take into account that the EU may disappear one day.” Tereza Hyťhová has been a member of the…

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