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European Parliament continues pro-LGBT crusade – Reactions in Central Europe

The Editorial Board September 16, 2021

European Union – Pursuing its policy of standardising the EU and establishing “LGBT rights” in all Member States to create a more “rainbow-coloured Europe”, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on 13 September calling on the European Commission to take action to…

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Anti-Covid measures: Romania and Croatia scale back their efforts

The Editorial Board September 3, 2021

Romania/Croatia – As public health measures intensify in Western Europe and in some Central European countries, two Balkan countries – Romania and Croatia – seem to have decided to go the opposite way. “I’m not a fan of discrimination” Asked on Saturday…

Politics

ECJ reminded of the limits of its powers by Romanian Constitutional Court

The Editorial Board June 25, 2021

The European Court of Justice assumes the role of supreme judge in areas where the signatory states of the European treaties have not ceded their sovereignty. Romania/European Union – The propensity of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to extend its prerogatives and…

Magyar Nemzet

Research on underprivileged Roma

Partenaire June 25, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on June 25, 2021. The three-year program titled, Roma – Without Borders, was designed to aid the disadvantaged Roma of the Carpathian Basin. Never before has there been such large-scale research on…

Politics

European Commission calls on Polish government not to respect democracy and rule of law

Olivier Bault June 15, 2021

Poland – On Wednesday, June 9, at the same time as it initiated proceedings against Germany to assert the primacy of European law, the European Commission sent a letter to the Polish government asking it to withdraw its referral to its Constitutional…

Society

Oradea doctor: hospital Covid protocols are what’s killing patients

The Editorial Board March 30, 2021

Article originally published in Hungarian on Erdely.ma, on March 19, 2021. “A Romanian doctor is working wonders, healing hercovid patients 100%” – wrote the title of a longer article in the Romanian newspaper, the National. The Oradea (Nagyvárad) doctor’s secret to success:…

Magyar Nemzet

A Soros party in Romania?

Partenaire December 1, 2020

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on December 1, 2020. It’s not the first time Bucharest’s politicians are protesting the business mogul’s interference. George Soros essentially has nothing to lose because he’s won the ideological battle—claimed Bogdan Duca,…

Politics

Romania on the brink of political violence

Modeste Schwartz May 12, 2020

Romania – Since Klaus Iohannis’s surprisingly fast rise to power in 2014, his detractors have regularly used the “Nazi” card against him. In most cases, this has been done in a stupid way: ignoring the word’s actual definition, and instead simply making…

Interviews

Attila Dabis: “We want the EU to actively contribute in maintaining the cultural and linguistic diversity of Europe”

The Editorial Board May 3, 2020

Interview with Attila Dabis, Foreign Affairs Commissioner of the Szekler National Council: “We want the EU to actively contribute in maintaining the cultural and linguistic diversity of Europe”. While European politics and economies are stagnating in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis,…

Politics

Analysis of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 12, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania – A preliminary warning is needed, which is valid for all elections organised in Romania. The counting of the votes is entrusted to a militarised secret service, the STS (the Special Transmissions Service), which employs a non-homologated software…

Politics

Romania: inventory on the eve of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 9, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - On the 10th of October in Bucharest, the Social-Democratic government fell after a no-confidence vote initiated by the liberal opposition (rather openly guided by president Iohannis) and his allies in the Parliament. A rather insignificant episode in…

Politics

Orbán’s full speech at Tusványos: political philosophy, upcoming crisis and projects for the next 15 years

The Editorial Board July 29, 2019

By the editorial board. Hungary - Each year, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Transylvania - a region formerly Hungarian, of which many parts are still inhabited by a majority of Hungarians, and…