Author: Visegrád Post

Rodrigo Ballester

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The following is an interview with Rodrigo Ballester, Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Hungary, which is an institution that has established close ties with Viktor Orbán’s government in recent years. Rodrigo Ballester is a former European civil servant from the College of Europe, and was notably a member of the cabinet of the Commissioner for Education and Culture from 2014 to 2019. He has been teaching at the Sciences-Po Paris (Dijon Campus) since 2008. (more…)

Tereza Hyťhová. Photo: Facebook / Tereza Hyťhová

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Interview by Alimuddin Usmani

Tereza Hyťhová has been a member of the Czech Parliament since 2017, first with the SPD (Freedom and Direct Democracy) party, and since July 2020 as a member of Trikolora (Tricolor Citizens’ Movement), the new patriotic and Euroskeptic party of Václav Klaus, Jr., the son of former President Václav Klaus. (more…)

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Written by Olivier Bault

Could Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, until now an unconditional supporter of European Union membership, now be considering exiting the bloc? (more…)

Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia  Commons

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Following the Hungary-England football match in Budapest on Thursday, September 2, during which racist abuse against the British team was reported, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson posted a tweet in which he expressed that it was “completely unacceptable that England players were racially abused in Hungary.” (more…)

Gábor Vona, the former President of Jobbik, in 2015. Beginning in 2013, Jobbik began to soften its earlier militant image, in what was known in the Hungarian media as the “candy campaign.” These efforts to appear more centrist gradually altered the party’s rhetoric beyond recognition. Source: Facebook.

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Czech version here

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Long considered the most radical parliamentary party in Europe, over the course of only a few years, Jobbik has morphed into a centrist and pro-European Union party, completely abandoning its former radical rhetoric opposing the EU, NATO, the LGBT movement, and gypsy crime. Today, in fact, Jobbik is trying to ally with the liberal and progressive Left in order to topple Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party, Fidesz. Thus, this article is a brief history of a political 180.

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The following note was published by Ferenc Almássy, the Editor-in-Chief of the Visegrád Post, a site specializing in news from Central Europe from a Rightist perspective, today in response to Steve Bannon’s lecture at “The Future of Europe” conference in Budapest yesterday. (more…)

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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. (UPDATE: The OSF announced on Friday that it is not going to make a decision about leaving Hungary until after the government passes its new law about taxing NGOs that favor migration.) (more…)

Viktor Orbán

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As every October 23, this week Hungary celebrated its fight against Sovietism and for its freedom. It is a national holiday with a particularly political connotation. On this occasion, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made strong statements, including the fact that Hungary’s identity is threatened again, this time by globalism and financial speculators.

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