Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 29 th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp
28 July 2018, Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad)
Good morning to you all. It is an honour to be here again, and to be…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Yesterday, July 4 2018, the Romanian Supreme Court – having the final word after a long series of appeals – sentenced two Szekler activists (István Beke and Zoltán Szőcs) to 5 years in prison, causing national outrage…
By Thibaud Cassel.
European Union - Emmanuel Macron is he man of the ”great leap forward” in terms of European integration. The explicit reluctance of the Visegrád Group is being brushed aside: the reform concerns first the euro zone, and the ones…
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…
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…
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…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Let’s set the scene first:
Apart from speculations (some more or less scientific, others frankly zany) surrounding their distant origin, the Szeklers have for centuries been a small Hungarian-speaking mountain-dwelling population, nestled in the centre of the…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Last week the Visegrád Post published the official English translation of an interview given by Viktor Orbán to a small provincial newspaper for Romania’s Hungarian minority (Bihari Napló, i.e. “Bihar Daily”). Those readers less familiar with…
Romania - Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán visited Oradea (Nagyvárad in Hungarian) on 2 October. At the Partium Christian University he attended a ceremony marking the beginning of the academic year and inauguration of a new building for the University. Following the…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary/Romania - Viktor Orbán's annual speech in Tusnádfürdő, now widely followed and eagerly anticipated, even by members of the international press, generally contains political professions of faith and strategic road-maps which extend far beyond Magyar-Romanian relations, or those of…
Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 28th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp, 22 July 2017, Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad, Romania)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: "First of all, I’d like to remind everyone that we started a process of collective thinking 27…
By Modeste Schwartz.
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Romania - In Romania everyone is officially pro-Western. No established political force is challenging the country's membership to NATO,…