Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address after
swearing the prime-ministerial oath of office
Budapest, 10 May 2018
Honourable President of the Republic, Honourable Speaker, Fellow Members of Parliament,
My…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - “I do not know what Mr. Dragnea is scheming over there with the Jews.”
This rather unprofessional statement, publicly stated yesterday by an ethnically German EU head of state, and which, if it had been uttered, for…
By Antoine de Longevialle.
Hungary - ‘For seven years I’ve been working to build a foreign policy based on our national interests, rather than on the mentality and logic of a reluctant ally. We’re doing well, but there’s one piece of the…
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…
Hungary - According to the leading Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which was created and is led by George Soros, said the OSF would leave Budapest to move to Berlin. The information has been confirmed…
By Thibaud Cassel.
European Union – On Sunday April 15th the French President Emmanuel Macron gave a TV interview of around three hours. Halfway between his comfortable election in last May and the European elections of 2019, the event had the form…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary - Analysis of the electoral results of April 8, which gave Viktor Orbán's Fidesz a third consecutive mandate.
Why rejoice?
Let's start with a cynical statement: the FIDESZ strategists have earned their fees. They are obviously based on…
Hungary - On Sunday, April 8, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz-KDNP coalition won the general elections and reached a constitutional two-thirds majority in parliament. Viktor Orbán begins his third consecutive term, which will last until 2022.
After a long, heavy and very…
Hungary, Budapest - Interview with András Bencsik, Editor-in-Chief of the pro-governmental weekly Magyar Demokrata: "The main question is, can we save our sovereignty or not? This is the main question."
This interview was conducted at the beginning of February 2018.…
By Massimiliano Ferrari, columnist at Il Populista.
Hungary - The Hungarian elections will be followed with great interest also in Italy and especially in Lombardy and Veneto, the two economic-cultural locomotives of a country which certainly is a bridge between Europe and…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary - In connection with the small “earthquake” of February 25, I stated in a recent editorial that the “communication” problems (which are currently hotly debated within FIDESZ and among its supporters) reveal underlying sociological realities…
Hungary, Budapest - On March 15, 2018, Hungary celebrated the 170th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848. But three weeks ahead of the elections, it was also an eminently political day. Hundreds of thousands of people marched to show their support to…