Monday, 29 April , 2024

Hungary

Israel’s War Against George Soros

JAFFA, Israel — As a Holocaust survivor, a successful financier who embraces free market capitalism and a philanthropist who champions liberal democracy, George Soros...

The Spy Who Funded Me: Revisiting the Congress for Cultural Freedom

Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War, a new volume edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg By Patrick Iber Published in lareviewofbooks.org IN 1950, a group...

Orban’s referendum – no triumph, no defeat

The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has failed to convince a majority of his population to vote in a referendum on closing the door to refugees, rendering the result invalid and undermining his campaign for a cultural counter-revolution within the European Union.

Of Folk Devils And Moral Panic: Hungary’s Referendum On Mandatory EU...

For several weeks, streets in Budapest, as elsewhere in Hungary, have been awash with government-funded placards representing an overt incitement to racial and religious hatred. Far from portraying those fleeing to Europe from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries as genuine asylum seekers, escaping brutal and apparently intractable civil conflicts, the

The Coming European Debt Wars

The mortgage debts in post-Soviet economies and Iceland are more explosive. Although these countries are not in the Eurozone, most of their debts are denominated in euros. Some 87% of Latvia’s debts are in euros or other foreign currencies, and are owed mainly to Swedish banks, while Hungary and Romania owe euro-debts mainly to Austrian banks. So

Hungary sets date for referendum on EU migrant quotas, PM favors...

Hungary will hold a referendum on October 2 to decide if the country will further accept the EU’s mandatory migrant quota system. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who initiated the decision, earlier said a “no” vote would be in favor of Hungary's independence.

The geopolitics of European football

Euro 2016 has just begun. Thousands of fans, despite unprecedented security measures, have already collided in real fights. This alone demonstrates that football for...

Target Greece

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, who is considered a "center-Leftist" politician (words seem to have lost everywhere their meaning, not only in Slovakia) has...

“New Europe” is back, asking for new NATO enlargements

The Hungarian and the Slovak Foreign Ministers, speaking to a recent conference, have advanced the idea for new enlargements of NATO in the Balkans...

Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in seven charts

From 2015 until now more than 1,300,000 immigrants have tried entering into Europe. Most of them get to Europe from Turkey to the Greek...