poland | Visegrád Post

Viktor Orbán: “Europe must not succumb to the Soros network”

The Editorial Board November 25, 2020

Hungary - After the Hungarian-Polish veto to the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the Next Generation EU recovery instrument (NGEU) due to their tying with the "rule of law", George Soros called on the EU to stand up against Hungary and Poland…

Politics

The third week of September was Poland’s week in the European Parliament

Olivier Bault October 14, 2020

Poland - Monday, September 14, was the day of the final ‘debate’ in plenary session on the López Aguilar report on Poland (see: A tale of two very biased reports in the European Parliament: the López Aguilar report on Poland and the…

Politics

The Visegrád Four as the driving force behind Europe’s support for Belarusians

Olivier Bault September 1, 2020

Visegrád Group - “Poland still remembers the decisive events of 1989 and always supports its neighbours. I have called for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council and strong reaction from the EU to what is happening in Belarus. We must support…

Politics

A tale of two very biased reports in the European Parliament: the López Aguilar report on Poland and the Sargentini report on Hungary

Olivier Bault August 27, 2020

European Union - The López Aguilar report on Poland was adopted by the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on July 16, 2020. The Sargentini report on Hungary was adopted by LIBE on June 25, 2018, and…

Politics

Address by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the inauguration of the Memorial to National Cohesion – FULL SPEECH

La Rédaction August 24, 2020

Hungary - Despite celebrations being somewhat diminished due to anti-COVID-19 measures, August 20th saw the inauguration of a memorial, in Budapest, to pre-Treay of Trianon Hungary in time for the 100th anniversary of that treaty. Following the end of the First World…

Politics

Why Hungary and Poland, and not Italy and France?

Olivier Bault August 5, 2020

Europe - “The ‘systemic threats to the rule of law’ and of democracy may not be where one would think”, and “it will have escaped no one's notice that such power left in the hands of the European institutions can be turned…

Society

Paedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church: similarities and differences between Poland and countries of Western Europe

Olivier Bault July 24, 2020

Poland - A question frequently asked about the future of the Polish Catholic Church and of Poland as a whole is whether they will go down the path followed by Ireland, where a formerly Catholic, conservative and pro-life society has become highly…

Culture

Who was Wacław Felczak?

The Editorial Board July 20, 2020

Who was Wacław Felczak? – A Hungarian Perspective Fel-tsak or Fel-tʂak? Thanks to the different pronunciation in Polish and Hungarian, this question was quite common among the Hungarian participants on the Summer University in Krasiczyn, Poland, both in 2018 and 2019. A…

Politics

The European Commission’s attack on the reform of the justice system in Poland: summary, chronology and challenges

The Editorial Board July 15, 2020

Poland - Tensions between Brussels and Warsaw over the independence of the Polish judiciary have been ongoing since the end of 2015. They began immediately after the parliamentary elections won by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in October 2015. In December…

Politics

Towards a confederation of European nations? Find out more about the preamble of a future European constitution

David Engels June 24, 2020

Europe - The usual advocates of the European Union, and its politically correct doctrine, often assert that all opposition to their universalism amounts to calling for a return to nationalism, the far-right and war. Yet the numbers of those that wish to…

Society

Lifting the lockdown and reactivating the economy in the countries of the Visegrád Group

Olivier Bault May 29, 2020

Having reacted faster to the COVID-19 pandemic than their Western European counterparts, the four countries of the Visegrád Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) were also among the first to reduce their lockdown measures – which were less stringent than…

Politics

Eurocrats’ obsession with Poland and Hungary remains strong even in a time of unprecedented pan-European crisis

Olivier Bault May 21, 2020

European Union - Even in a time of unprecedented crisis, with a pandemic raging and economic depression looming, some in Brussels will not take a pause in their attacks against Hungary’s and Poland’s conservative governments. The unnecessary “concerns” expressed by members of…