By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The manoeuvres are pretty crude, but Poles are now getting used to this kind of practice. In the same way that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered an interim order against Poland two days before the…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Although opposition media have been trying very hard to expose scandals linked to the current ruling party in Poland, the electorate is unimpressed. Jarosław Kaczyński’s social-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) seems to be on track to…
Austria - Interview with Baron Norbert van Handel: "The M7 (i.e., Mitteleuropa 7), these countries of Christian and conservative essence, must move closer within the EU to correct the course, otherwise they will sink into a multicultural European whirlwind. The M7 must…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally publishedon Kurier.plusby the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation
European Union - While Poland and Hungary can hardly count on the new European Parliament constituted after the May 23–26 elections to take a less offensive…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Krasiczyn Castle in southeast Poland, near the city of Przemyśl, hosted some 350 young Hungarians and Poles from 26-30 August for the second edition of a new annual event: the Polish-Hungarian School of Leaders,organised in the form…
By Marcin Bąk.
Originally published on Kurier.plus.
Poland - Of the many brotherly pages in Polish-Hungarian relations, one of the brightest is the attitude of the Hungarian army during the heroic 63 days of fighting in Warsaw in 1944. Warsaw and Poles…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published in March on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation.
Central Europe - A popular view in Western Europe is that anti-Semitism is still rife in Central European countries, and that Poland and…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
European Union - On July 22, French President Emmanuel Macron announced at a press conference in Paris that an agreement had been reached by 14 countries of the European Union on a temporary…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Together with its fellow Visegrád Group countries, Poland has managed to veto the bid of Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to become the next President of the European Commission. Although Timmermans is expected to retain a vice-presidency of…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
Central Europe - According to the European Commission’s forecasts, Poland and Hungary will be the joint second fastest growing economies in the EU this year, after Malta. The EC has raised its…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - In Poland, as elsewhere, the months of May and June are the season of “Equality Parades”, as they are still called in the homeland of Saint John Paul II. These marches are free of the obscene behaviour…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The Law and Justice party (PiS) which came to power in Poland with the elections of 2015 has always seemed more attached to transatlantic ties than to further EU integration. At the NATO summit in Warsaw in…