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“Stop Soros”: hard blow for pro migrants NGOs in Hungary

The Editorial Board June 2, 2018

Hungary – On May 29, the Hungarian government presented its earlier already announced bill “Stop Soros” aiming to prevent immigrationist NGOs from pursuing their anti-national activities with complete impunity. Following the results of the elections held in April, Viktor Orbán has…

Politics

Interview with Aleksander Dugin on the Visegrád Group – the opinion of a Russian nationalist about Central Europe

The Editorial Board May 30, 2018

Interview published originally on geopolitica.ru. Russia - Aleksander Dugin is a Russian nationalist intellectual and philosopher. Theorician of "the 4th political theory", traditionnalist, favourable to an Eurasian space, opposed to the "anglo-saxon thalassocratia", Aleksander Dugin is subject to many fantasies, such as being…

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…

Society

How energy plays a big part in the gap between the Commission and Hungary

Antoine de Longevialle April 25, 2018

By Antoine de Longevialle. Hungary - ‘For seven years I’ve been working to build a foreign policy based on our national interests, rather than on the mentality and logic of a reluctant ally. We’re doing well, but there’s one piece of the…

Politics

Poland: the right wing coalition lead by the PiS is looking for a second wind

Olivier Bault April 19, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Poland will soon enter a new cycle of elections that will be inaugurated in October-November with the municipal and voivodeship councils elections. There will be then the European Parliament election in 2019 followed by the elections to…

Politics

Emmanuel Macron and Central Europe – 1/2

Thibaud Gibelin April 18, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. European Union – On Sunday April 15th the French President Emmanuel Macron gave a TV interview of around three hours. Halfway between his comfortable election in last May and the European elections of 2019, the event had the form…

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…

Politics

Landslide victory for Viktor Orbán

The Editorial Board April 9, 2018

Hungary - On Sunday, April 8, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz-KDNP coalition won the general elections and reached a constitutional two-thirds majority in parliament. Viktor Orbán begins his third consecutive term, which will last until 2022. After a long, heavy and very…

Interviews

Péter Márki-Zay: “My hope would be for a technocrat government”

Nicolas de Lamberterie April 6, 2018

Hungary - Péter Marki-Zay: " My hope would be for a technocrat government, a managing government, whose primary purpose would be to restore democracy, freedom of the press, the state of law, the market economy, and the commitment to European integration. " …

Politics

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

Italy looks closely at the Hungarian elections

The Editorial Board March 28, 2018

By Massimiliano Ferrari, columnist at Il Populista. Hungary - The Hungarian elections will be followed with great interest also in Italy and especially in Lombardy and Veneto, the two economic-cultural locomotives of a country which certainly is a bridge between Europe and…