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The effect is like waking a sleeping giant with a slap…The street said what the institutions dare not—that the backstage [the people] does not just exist, but dictates the agenda of the state. And that the people are fed up.
—Kalin Kamenov- Facts.com (Bulgaria News Service) (more…)
Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)
Rodrigo Ballester
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…)
