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Full “State of the Nation” speech of Viktor Orbán, 2020

The Editorial Board February 19, 2020

Each February, since 1999, current Hungarian Christian-Democrat Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a speech on the state of the Nation, both of review of the past year and a public analysis of the foreseen issues. We display below the full translated transcript…

Interviews

François-Xavier Bellamy: “Other political groups are exploiting the rule of law for their own ends”

The Editorial Board January 22, 2020

Interview with François-Xavier Bellamy, French MEP belonging to “Les Républicains” (LR) and member of the EPP: “This situation highlights the fact that other parties are exploiting the rule of law in order to generate political dissent.” On Thursday January 16th, a resolution…

Politics

“PM Orbán: 2019 was about elections; the next two years will be about governing”

The Editorial Board January 10, 2020

By Zoltán Kovács. Article originally published on About Hungary, the blog of the International Communications Office of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary. Hungary - It was a no-holds barred, nearly three-hour-long, press conference with more than one…

Politics

The United States’ love affair with Poland and Hungary

Olivier Bault December 10, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation. It was updated and completed for the Visegrád Post on December 10, 2019. When Donald Trump won the American presidential election in November 2016,…

Politics

Hungarian Local Election: Not a Defeat, but a Warning

Modeste Schwartz October 14, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Hungary - The (very relative, but real) drop of the FIDESZ-KDNP government coalition in last Sunday's local elections will, of course, be interpreted by the Hungarian opposition as a (starting) disavowal at the national level of Viktor Orbán's policies.…

Politics

Hungary’s Local Elections: a Sour Victory for Orbán

The Editorial Board October 14, 2019

Hungary - Sunday, October 13, residents of Hungary voted to elect their mayors and municipal or county councilors. If Viktor Orbán's Fidesz won the vote on the national scale, it lost the capital city, Budapest. A turning point in the reign of…

Politics

Viktor Orbán visited Macron in Paris

Thibaud Gibelin October 12, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Hungary - While it was a highly awaited meeting... it has been paradoxically surrounded by a strange silence. On Friday, October 11, The Hungarian Prime minister was the guest of Emmanuel Macron for a lunch at the Elysee palace…

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…

Politics

Orbán’s answers to EPP letter

The Editorial Board June 18, 2019

By the editorial board. Hungary - After a long confrontation between Viktor Orbán and the EPP leaders, and following the European elections, Viktor Orbán had to answer questions from the "Wise Men" of the EPP. You can read the questions of the…

Politics

The V4 is united and ready ahead of next Brussels Summit

The Editorial Board June 16, 2019

By the editorial board. Visegrád Group - On Thursday, June 13, 2019, the Hungarian, Slovak, Czech and Polish Prime Ministers met in Budapest to jointly prepare for the Brussels summit on June 20 and 21. They announced at the end of the…

Politics

Overview of the European Parliament Elections Results in the V4

The Editorial Board May 27, 2019

By the editorial board of the Visegrád Post. Visegrád Group - As everywhere else in the European Union, turnout in the European election has been low in the V4 countries. However, in each of the four countries of the Visegrád Group, the…

Politics

Why the Spitzenkandidaten mechanism compromises the European Commission’s impartiality and is a cause of EU attacks against Poland and Hungary

Olivier Bault May 24, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Kurier.plus. European Union - Meeting in Sibiu, Romania, for a European Council on May 9, European heads of state and government discussed whether the Spitzenkandidaten system – first used to choose the head…