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Hungary - Phone interview with Modeste Schwartz, graduate of the French elite school ENS-Ulm, linguist, translator, author, publicist and author for the Visegrád Post and other websites: "Banning me, one further step towards Romania’s re-morphing into a police state". At the end…

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…

Politics

All Quiet on the Western Front. What About the East?

Modeste Schwartz September 17, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Europe - Drawing straightforward conclusions from a materialist vision ofa humanity (which anthropology, incidentally, largely denies), Marx bequeathed us a model of political thinking according to which, after entering modernity, class identity would be the only collective membership likely…

Politics

Romania: Rudy “Rule of Law” Giuliani Stabs Klaus “Anti-corruption” Johannis in the Back.

Modeste Schwartz August 28, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - The means to know the future in advance are the subject of an old and repetitive debate, concerning the comparative advantages of the crystal ball, necromancy and Jacques Attali's table talk. Regarding the political situation in Central…

Politics

Tusványos Speech: Goals and Dodges of Striker Orbán at the Best of his Form

Modeste Schwartz July 30, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - For almost three decades, the very charismatic Prime Minister has accustomed the Hungarian and international opinion to the now traditional speech of Tusványos (named after the festival organized every year at the end of July in the…

Politics

Black Sea Gas: Dragnea Defeats the Deep State with its Own Weapons

Modeste Schwartz July 15, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On July 9, 2018, the Romanian parliament wrote the final chapter of an energy drama that had remained relatively unseen for a long time, finally breaking out only a few weeks ago – though it had probably…

Politics

Romania’s Deep State Will Stop at Nothing to Separate Bucharest from Budapest

Modeste Schwartz July 5, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Yesterday, July 4 2018, the Romanian Supreme Court – having the final word after a long series of appeals – sentenced two Szekler activists (István Beke and Zoltán Szőcs) to 5 years in prison, causing national outrage…

Politics

Viktor Orbán Expects a New Global Financial Crisis

Modeste Schwartz July 1, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Central Europe - For more than a month, the currencies of Central Europe (a term that, for my part, I always use in a conventional/geographical sense: post-communist Europe outside the former USSR) have dropped against Western currencies – …

Politics

How Visegrad Has Become a Vital Necessity for Hungary (and vice versa)

Modeste Schwartz May 29, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - I explained in a previous article why Viktor Orbán's FIDESZ staying in power was a condition of survival (successfully met for the time being) for the Visegrad Group. The opposite is no less true – and…

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…

Politics

Splendours and Dangers of a Victory

Modeste Schwartz April 15, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - Analysis of the electoral results of April 8, which gave Viktor Orbán's Fidesz a third consecutive mandate. Why rejoice? Let's start with a cynical statement: the FIDESZ strategists have earned their fees. They are obviously based on…