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2019 European Parliament Elections: Chess Game in Central Europe

The Editorial Board January 16, 2019

By the editorial board. What will the European Parliament look like after the elections of May 26? Chess game in Central Europe, Salvini's activism, repositioning of Western European populists, consequences of Brexit and questions about Fidesz and ANO. The meeting between…

Society

The Problems Surrounding Hungary’s “Slavery Law”: Fake News?

Modeste Schwartz December 14, 2018

Hungary - The Hungarian parliament adopted on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, an amendment to the labor law, including the increase of the number of legal overtime hours per year from 250 to 400 maximum (a misleading broad range used by the opposition,…

Society

Building Eurasia

Gábor Tóth November 30, 2018

By Gábor Tóth, President of the Gateway to Europe V4-China Association. Article originally published in English on GLOBS. Central Europe, Hungary, China - Shanghai became the center of attention for a week in November where the first China International Import Expo took place with…

Politics

Hungary’s “Opening to the East” Policy

Gábor Tóth November 4, 2018

By Gábor Tóth, President of the Gateway to Europe V4-China Association. Hungary - It has been 7 years, since the second Orbán government announced its ambitious foreign policy direction called “Opening to the East”. Just like most of other “unorthodox” policies of the reigning administration,…

Interviews

Max Ferrari: “The League wants to cooperate with Fidesz and Law and Justice”

Ferenc Almássy November 3, 2018

Interview conducted by Olivier Bault for the magazine Do Rzeczy : “Italy closer to the V4?” An interview with Max Ferrari, journalist, international affairs expert for the Italian party Lega, and advisor to the President of the Region of Lombardy,…

Politics

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs

Nicolas de Lamberterie September 18, 2018

By Nicolas de Lamberterie. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs - an illustration of the youth of the Visegrád Group 2.0 Czechia - The adoption of the Sargentini report against Hungary (challenged by the Hungarian government because…

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

Sargentini Report: what’s next? Consequences and Analysis of the votes

The Editorial Board September 12, 2018

Vote on the Sargentini report: Hungarian government denounces electoral fraud - populists behind Orbán - Jobbik abstains - Kurz looses Orbán European Union - The Sargentini report, which states that Hungary is violating the values of the European Union, calls for the…

Society

Hungarian Media: nothing to report!

Yann Caspar August 30, 2018

By Yann P. Caspar. Hungary - It's done. The turnaround that has been anticipated for weeks in the Hungarian media market has just occurred. After the burlesque burst of 2015 between Viktor Orbán and his historical financial arm, Lajos Simicska, the news channel Hír…

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

General elections in Slovenia: has the time come for illiberalism in Ljubljana?

Thibaud Gibelin June 2, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Slovenia - Following the resignation of the Prime Minister Miro Cerar on March 14, general elections will take place in Slovenia this Sunday, June 3. This is the occasion to inquire into the possible evolutions of this country bordering…