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Anna Horváth’s Case and What it Tells Us

Modeste Schwartz April 3, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - At the beginning of the 2000s, the socio-political situation of Romania, on the surface, was quite similar to the cliché which the mainstream Western press cherishes when it comes to “Eastern Europe”. The country – with the…

Politics

Why do they Want the Head of Viktor Orbán?

Modeste Schwartz March 27, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - Geopolitical implications of the Hungarian Elections of April 8. After a contextual presentation of the current actors on the Hungarian political scene on the eve of the April 8 elections, followed by a socio-cultural analysis of the…

Politics

Hungary: The False Friends of Viktor Orbán

Modeste Schwartz March 20, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - In connection with the small “earthquake” of February 25, I stated in a recent editorial that the “communication” problems (which are currently hotly debated within FIDESZ and among its supporters) reveal underlying sociological realities…

Politics

Hungary: Bring Them the Head of Viktor Orbán

Modeste Schwartz March 8, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary - On Monday, February 26, Viktor Orbán's Hungary woke up with a severe hangover. The defeat of a FIDESZ-majority candidate in a special municipal election, in itself, should not have caused an earthquake. Even in Hódmezővásárhely, a small…

Politics

The School that “Humiliates” Romanians and the Soup that “Magyarizes” Them: Big Imperial Propaganda Concert in Bucharest

Modeste Schwartz February 19, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Further installment in the case of the Marosvásárhely / Târgu-Mureş Hungarian Catholic High School: the law which makes possible the functioning of this institution – which for a number of years has been at the center of…

Politics

For corruption money, would you rather have 1200 Romanian lei or 18b. $?

Modeste Schwartz February 4, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On the 22th of January, Mrs. Cecilia Chirvăsuţă, a cardiologist working at the state hospital in the town of Tulcea (Eastern Romania) was sentenced to 4 years in jail for “accepting” from a patient an illegal extra…

Politics

When the V4 Frightens, Tudose Crosses the Szekler Rubicon

Modeste Schwartz January 13, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Let’s set the scene first: Apart from speculations (some more or less scientific, others frankly zany) surrounding their distant origin, the Szeklers have for centuries been a small Hungarian-speaking mountain-dwelling population, nestled in the centre of the…

Politics

French diplomacy in Bucharest: would it be on “autopilot”?

Modeste Schwartz January 2, 2018

By Modeste Scwhartz. Romania - The lack of talent of the French, especially their diplomats, in foreign languages is already a classic theme of jokes in Central Europe. This finding is all the more bitter as it contrasts with the galloping Anglophony…

Politics

“A betrayal? Why not, but let us know!”

Modeste Schwartz December 13, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - If I borrow the title of this article – adapting it slightly – from one of the more famous quotes of the brilliant Wallachian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale, it is because, lately, even for the most informed observer…

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

The Budapest Liberals want to make two million “prostitutes” second-class citizens.

Modeste Schwartz November 5, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Hungary / Romania - Even before the historical defeat suffered by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP in Hungarian) in 2010, its leader of the 2000s, F. Gyurcsány – a “man of the left” as the IMF likes them: himself…

Politics

Historical Interview with Viktor Orbán: is a Budapest-Cluj-Bucharest axis in the making?

Modeste Schwartz October 19, 2017

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - Last week the Visegrád Post published the official English translation of an interview given by Viktor Orbán to a small provincial newspaper for Romania’s Hungarian minority (Bihari Napló, i.e. “Bihar Daily”). Those readers less familiar with…