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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…

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Viktor Orbán’s ceremonial speech on the 170th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board March 19, 2018

Hungary, Budapest - On March 15, 2018, Hungary celebrated the 170th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848. But three weeks ahead of the elections, it was also an eminently political day. Hundreds of thousands of people marched to show their support to…

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Slovakia: major crisis after the assassination of a journalist and destabilization of the country by NGOs

The Editorial Board March 17, 2018

Slovakia - It all starts with the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend on February 25. Since then, Prime Minister Robert Fico and the Minister of the Interior have resigned, and NGOs mobilize the street to destabilize the government…

Society

Central Europe and the European economy

Thibaud Gibelin March 13, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Central Europe - Economic competition confronts Europe with the rest of the world, but first of all European countries with each other. The political dispute over migration quotas has recently crystallized one of the economical tensions that runs across…

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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…

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Orbán: sovereignty as the key to success

The Editorial Board March 7, 2018

Article originally published on The Hungary Journal. Hungary - If Hungary avoids becoming an immigrant country, it will prosper, otherwise it will “regress, decline and stagnate”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at an event of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in Budapest on…

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“The West will fall, as Europe is occupied without realising it,” said Viktor Orbán. “Christianity is the last hope” – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board February 20, 2018

Hungary - On Sunday, February 18, Viktor Orbán held his annual state of the nation address at the castle of Budapest. 6 weeks ahead of the elections that, according to the polls, he will probably win again, for a third time in…

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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…

Society

27 years old and stronger than ever

Ferenc Almássy February 15, 2018

By Ferenc Almássy. Central Europe - The Visegrád Group is 27 years old on February 15, 2018. Never has its influence been so important. Created on 15 February 1991 by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (which split into two states, the Czech Republic…

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Why so much fuss about the Visegrad Group?

Gábor Tóth February 8, 2018

By Gabor Toth, President of the V4-China association. Visegrad Group - In the recent years, the international media has helped make the profile of the V4 rise significantly. It is fair to say that the V4 have never been so important and…

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N. Farage: “The EU’s goal is assimilation”

Mariann Őry February 1, 2018

By Mariann Őry. Interview conducted for the Hungarian conservative daily newspaper Magyar Hírlap and published on 2018, January 29. The former chairman of UKIP, Nigel Farage spoke in the European Parliament against George Soros’s allies, and always defends Viktor Orban in the regular…