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29/03/2024

We wish you a blessed Easter!

Stabat Mater dolorosa(traditional Polish melody arranged by B. Izbicki)Ensemble JERYCHO, dir. Bartosz Izbickitenor: Paweł Szczycińskisound & video: Ars Sonor...

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas to all!

Dear readers, The Visegrád Post team wishes you a merry, holy and peaceful Christmas. On this day of celebration of hope and love, let us remember that light will triumph over darkness and that Our Lord Jesus Christ was born to save us all. We urge you to avoid conflict for a few days, take it upon...

22/12/2023

Once again, Hungary faces alone the European mainstream.

Hungary – Hungary voted against the European Union’s new aid package for Ukraine at the December 14-15 European summit in Brussels. This decision, which blocked its adoption, provoked mixed reactions and added new tensions in Hungary’s already difficult relations with the EU. “It is unaccept...

10/12/2023

Yann Caspar spoke to historian László Bernát Veszprémy about his new book on the Hungarian Jewish Councils during the Second World War.

Hungary – The following is an interview with the Hungarian historian, journalist, and publicist László Bernát Veszprémy, who said, "There are an amazing amount of myths, legends and lies and misconceptions about the Jewish leaders. The vast majority of these can be traced back to the post-war ...

09/12/2023

Liberals promised to settle scores with P*S: the process has begun.

Poland – A month and a half after Law and Justice’s Pyrrhic victory in the Polish parliamentary elections, with all observers predicting a very short life for Mateusz Morawiecki’s new government that was sworn in on November 27, the Polish Sejm seems determined not only to turn the page on the...

30/11/2023

In a recent interview to Visegrad24, Poland’s former Deputy Prime Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said about the war in Ukraine that "the Western world is going to win this war, and this conflict is almost ended".

Poland - “This is not the time for a ceasefire,” Jadwiga Emilewicz told Visegrad 24, re-iterating the support that the P*S administration showed to the Ukraine during her years as Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister. Emilewicz emphasised that “Ukraine want to be back to their shape before 2014,.....

27/11/2023

The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) recently published the results of the 2022 census. Here are some of its findings:

Hungary – The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) recently published the results of the 2022 census. Here are some of its findings: Continued demographic decline since 1980 First of all, the number of people living in Hungary has fallen by 3.4% since 2011. The small Central European country...

19/11/2023

Poland is turning to India, after turning its back on China because of the latter's proximity to Russia.

Poland - Orlen SA, a Polish oil refiner and petrol conglomerate, has signed a multi-year strategic deal to supply natural gas to India's ArcelorMittal, the world's second-largest steel producer. It is not the first time the two titans have collaborated over energy intensive operations in Central and...

19/11/2023

Orlen has established itself as a giant in the European economy.

Poland - The economic virtues of stability and prosperity are often pitched against one another by the vicissitudes of emerging economies. Since the collapse of communism, successive East European governments have made hard decisions about giving a free rein to the wealth of foreign corporate capita...

16/11/2023

[Sovereignty.pl] ECR MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was one of six co-rapporteurs working in the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee on a report on proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the treaties, before he slammed the door in an act of protest.

Even the constitutional treaty rejected in two referendums, in the Netherlands and France, was finally forced through in truncated form as the Lisbon Treaty, says MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski in an interview for the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy and the English-language website Sovereignty.pl. And today, the....

13/11/2023

The Czech Prime Minister is trying to rebuild his popularity, which is at an all-time low due to his "at any cost" support policy in favour of Ukraine.

Czechia – In a video posted on his Facebook account on November 5, which the German and Czech press have both commented on, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala offered concrete examples of food products that cost more in Czechia than in neighbouring Germany. Fiala has been campaigning for lower food p...

12/11/2023

For Viktor Orbán, opening up to the East, and in particular to the Turkic countries, is of strategic importance, particularly in terms of energy.

Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Kazakhstan on November 1 together with his Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó and Finance Minister Mihály Varga. The Hungarian government’s delegation held talks with Kazakh leaders in Astana before attending the 10th s...

09/11/2023

Hungarian minister of Foreign Affairs calls again for an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and for dialogue between Russia and Western countries.

Hungary/Belarus – Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó travelled to Minsk on October 26 to take part in the international “Eurasian Security” conference held in the Belarusian capital on October 26–27. Szijjártó was the only representative of a Western country...

26/10/2023

It's official: Slovakia has a new government. And Robert Fico is its Prime Minister.

Slovakia – Three and a half weeks after the September 30 parliamentary elections and after tensions over her refusal to accept a minister that had been presented by the Slovak National Party (SNS, a social conservative nationalist party), Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has finally appointed Ro...

25/10/2023

[Sovereignty.pl] "Hungary’s left-wing media tycoon Zoltán Varga is being introduced into the Polish media market by Soros’ Pluralis B.V. right before the Polish elections.

Interestingly, they do not even seem to care about the timing any more," says Csaba Faragó, the head of the International Department of the Hungarian Századvég Foundation.

“Hungary’s left-wing media tycoon Zoltán Varga is being introduced into the Polish media market by Soros’ Pluralis B.V. right before the Polish elections. Interestingly, they do not even seem to care about the timing any more. A couple of years ago you would not have expected their network to...

23/10/2023

[Repost] On 23 October, Hungary commemorates the 1956 uprising in which the Hungarian people rose up against the socialist dictatorship.

A brief history:

Hungary - October 23, 1956, is a date that will forever be engraved in the history of Hungary and of the world. On this day, communism faltered in the Eastern Bloc: the Hungarians took to the streets for their freedom. Some have paid it with their lives, others only had a few days of hope before a b...

20/10/2023

Robert Fico will no longer be able to count on the solidarity of the European Socialists.

Slovakia – Following early parliamentary elections on September 30, Slovakia’s two social democratic parties – Smer-SD and Hlas-SD of former prime ministers Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini, respectively – have just concluded a coalition agreement with the Slovak National Party (SNS). For th...

16/10/2023

Anticipating the position of the government in formation, the Presidency (despite being actively pro-Ukraine) stopped the delivery of arms and munitions to Kiev.

Slovakia – The victory of Robert Fico and his party, Smer-SD, in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections on Saturday, September 30 is already having consequences, even though a new government coalition has not yet been formed. In addition to the fact that the interim government has decided to put in ...

14/10/2023

[Sovereignty.pl] If Donald Tusk becomes Poland's prime minister again after Sunday's elections, will the EU allow him to violate democracy and the rule of law and to trample on judicial independence, as he has promised he would? Unless these are just empty promises...

By Olivier Bault.

Donald Tusk has overtly claimed in recent months that in case of electoral victory on October 15, as prime minister of Poland he will disregard all laws passed by the Polish parliament since 2015 which he finds to have been adopted in violation of the Polish constitution and/or EU law. For this reas...

13/10/2023

[Sovereignty.pl] Poles will vote on Sunday for or against the relocation of migrants at the same time as they elect their deputies and senators.

Polish public opinion, from both left and right, is overwhelmingly hostile to non-European immigration, explains Kacper Kita on the basis of an opinion survey published in September.

Poles do not want to be forced to take in migrants from outside Europe. They strongly oppose this, whether they sympathize with the right-wing Confederation (Konfederacja) group that brings together nationalists and conservative libertarians, the ruling social-conservative Law and Justice party, the...

11/10/2023

"Political developments over the next month will immensely influence how the region responds to this fundamental issue. In the meantime, irregular migration flows will continue traverse Central Europe, en route to the Germanic destinations that surely will not rebuff them", writes Michael O'Shea.

Hungary - On September 28, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) hosted, at its Budapest campus, a panel discussion on the pressing subject of irregular migration to Europe. “The Decade of Movement: Challenges and Stakes of Irregular Mass Migration in Europe” was a product of the Wacław Felczak ...

05/10/2023

Poland is rearming, with the support of the United States.

Poland – In the last days of September, the US State Department announced the signing of a “$2 billion Foreign Military Financing (FMF) direct loan agreement to support Poland's effort to modernize its armed forces. ” The US administration’s press release stresses that “Poland is a stalwar...

03/10/2023

In a dramatic turn of events in Slovakia, populist Robert Fico won the elections, heralding a return to a sovereignist and Eurosceptic line, but also critical of the United States and more neutral in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

In Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is rubbing his hands.

Slovakia – The early parliamentary elections held in Slovakia on Saturday, September 30 once again reshuffled the political deck in this Central European country. In all likelihood, the social democrat Robert Fico, a former prime minister (both in 2006–2010 and 2012–2018), should be able to le...

26/09/2023

Beyond its long-running conflict with Armenia, Azerbaijan has been making more and more headlines in Europe in recent months, becoming an EU-approved energy supplier with a growing presence in south-eastern Europe.

Ferenc Almássy spoke to Rusif Hüseynov, Director of the Azerbaijan Topchubashov Center, about Azerbaijan's European strategy.

Interview with Rusif Hüseynov, director and co-funder of the Topchubashov center, an Azerbaijani think tank based in Baku: "While other post-Soviet countries have been desperately seeking EU membership, the Azerbaijani side decided not to align itself with some power bloc in order not to irritate o...

22/09/2023

The situation has become tense between Poland and Ukraine, once best friends, now visibly at loggerheads.

Poland/Ukraine – As we reported on September 15, Poland has decided, alongside Hungary and Slovakia, to extend the import ban on Ukrainian cereals beyond September 15 after the European Union tacitly decided not to do so. In response, the authorities in Kyiv have announced that they would take the...

20/09/2023

Scandal in Poland: a member of the government suspected of organising an illegal immigration network denounced in the press.

Poland – With the campaign for the Polish parliamentary elections on October 15 in full swing, a new scandal involving the Morawiecki government has just broken out. In a dramatic development, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Piotr Wawrzyk (Law and Justice, or P*S), who had...

17/09/2023

Despite its unconditional support for Ukraine, with one month to go before the elections, Poland intends to give priority to defending the interests of its farmers in the face of the Ukrainian grain export market.

Poland – At a meeting in Warsaw on July 19, the agriculture ministers of Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia urged the European Commission to extend the ban on grain imports from Ukraine from September 15 to December 31. The previous ban was due to end on September 15. On September 14...

14/09/2023

In Czechia, Covid is finally regarded as a simple flu. A new vaccination campaign was launched, with no mention of side effects.

Czechia – The collective hysteria caused by the Covid pandemic during the years 2020–2022 may not yet be entirely consigned to history. This is especially the case given that some countries still have large stocks of vaccines, which were purchased at great expense and that may be about to expire...

08/09/2023

Forced to abandon Russian energy, Hungary is increasingly turning to Azerbaijan, which supplies gas and electricity to the European Union.

Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held new talks in Budapest during a visit by President Aliyev to mark Hungary’s national holiday on August 20. Following this meeting, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, ...

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