By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary - I explained in a previous article why Viktor Orbán's FIDESZ staying in power was a condition of survival (successfully met for the time being) for the Visegrad Group. The opposite is no less true – and…
Slovenia - The migrants are squatting in Sarajevo and Slovenia fears up to 60.000 illegals to transit through Bosnia: the Slovenian elections will weigh heavily on the outcome of this regional issue.
At the very moment we mentioned the possibility of…
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 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 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.
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 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 - Geopolitical implications of the Hungarian Elections of April 8.
After a contextual presentation of the current actors on the Hungarian political scene on the eve of the April 8 elections, followed by a socio-cultural analysis of the…
Slovakia - A semblance of calm and stability seems to be returning to Slovakia, following the resignation of Slovakia's Prime Minister, Robert Fico, due to the pressure from civil society organizations, backed from abroad.
After the assassination of the Slovakian journalist Ján…
By Thibaud Cassel.
Central Europe - Economic competition confronts Europe with the rest of the world, but first of all European countries with each other. The political dispute over migration quotas has recently crystallized one of the economical tensions that runs across…
By Ferenc Almássy.
Ukraine, Transcarpathia / Subcarpathia - Recently, many articles have been published, all more alarmists than the others, on the situation of Hungarians in Ukraine. Everything is definitely not fine, but a warm down and a clarification are needed as…
Hungary, Budapest - Thursday, February 22, representatives of the Visegrád 4 have met in the Hungarian Parliament to speak about defense and migration.
According to Szilárd Németh, the president of the Hungarian parliamentarian committee for defense, the purpose of the V4 is…