Tag: Euroskepticism

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…)

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This Sunday, April 3, Hungarian voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not to give Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party a fourth consecutive term in office (which would be Orbán’s fifth term overall counting his first in 1998-2002; his present term has made him the longest-serving Prime Minister in Hungary’s history). (more…)

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Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Guillaume Durocher, a writer who is an expert on French politics, to talk about the Zemmour Question, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

Zemmour’s background
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The French conservative journalist, pundit, and writer Éric Zemmour announced his candidacy for the presidency of France against current President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally’s Marine Le Pen in next year’s election, which will be held on April 10, in a video statement he released yesterday on YouTube. The following is a translation of his statement. (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…)

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during his speech in Budapest on March 15.

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Every March 15, Hungary celebrates her 1848-49 struggle for freedom, which was a fight against the Habsburg Empire led by – among others – Hungarian republicans who were supported by Poland, most notably General Bem, the last general still standing at the end of the uprising.

On this day, Hungarians wear a cockade with national colors and celebrate the unity of the Nation. On this occasion, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, to Budapest in order to celebrate the Poles’ support for this Hungarian struggle with them. (more…)

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One thing was obvious about the referendum result of June 23, 2016 – namely, that neither side had expected it. (more…)

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The following is the text of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s annual state of the nation address, which was delivered in Budapest on February 10, 2019. A video of the speech with an English-language voice-over is available here.

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Viktor Orbán & Matteo Salvini

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Since the American Alt Right fell apart, many commentators and outlets which formerly identified as “Alt Right” have started pointing towards European populism as an example to follow, and are often heard to say that the nationalist cause is much further ahead in Europe. As a European, I would like to comment on this, based on the Dutch populist movement, which is relatively strong for a Western European country. (more…)

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In a speech delivered yesterday (September 11) at the European Parliament, Nigel Farage tears into the Eurocrats for their condemnation of Hungary’s policies regarding migration, which passed in a vote today by a two-thirds majority, and praises Viktor Orbán for standing up in the face of theirs and George Soros’ bullying.

Viktor Orbán

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Today (Wednesday), the Council of the European Union voted – for the first time ever in its history – to censure Hungary for a “systematic breach of European values,” by a two-thirds majority. On Tuesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to take part in the debates on the Sargentini report – named after its primary editor, Judith Sargentini, who is an MEP for the GreenLeft – denouncing the alleged decline of the “rule of law” in Hungary. (more…)