Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 185
Interview with Ferenc Almássy

231 words / 67:35

Michael Polignano, John Morgan, Ferenc Almássy

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For the fourth installment of Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, John Morgan and Michael Polignano decided to interview independent journalist Ferenc Almássy, a Hungarian citizen of primarily French and Hungarian descent who is the founder and editor of the conservative news analysis website, The Visegrad Post.

Topics include:

• Introductions: 0:00
• Ferenc explains the purpose and mission of The Visegrad Post: 0:22
• A brief background of the V4: 2:30
• The V4, the EU, and the migrant crisis: 4:38
• Orbán’s Transylvania speech of July 22, 2017: 8:12
• Homo sovieticus, Homo economicus, and the gap between the two Europes: 10:58
• The strengthening of the V4 over the past 12 months: 14:33
• Orbán’s rise to power: 15:12
• Hungary’s economic situation: 19:03
• The wage gap between Hungary and Germany: 24:52
• “The red line” Hungary and other V4 countries cannot cross: 26:10
• Fidesz, Jobbik, and Hungarian party politics: 30:33
• Orbán’s speech and Donald Trump: 37:36
• “Obama made it in Cairo, but Trump made it in Warsaw”: 43:10
• Ferenc’s trip to Bosnia: 45:58
• Unhealed wounds from the Yugoslav war: 49:20
• How Arabs and other non-European Muslims gained a foothold in Bosnia: 51:37
• Salafist colonies in Bosnia and their impact: 54:02
• Ferenc’s visit to a Salafist colony in Bosnia: 57:08
• Ferenc’s own ethnic background and his reasons for leaving his birthplace of France: 63:00