On Monday, 22 April a conference was held at the National University of Public Service, focusing on the evolving global order and necessary adjustments. First Panel – US And Europe Experts at the first panel included James Jay Carafano, Senior Counsellor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Kacper Kita, analyst and columnist, member of the editorial board of the Nowy Ład portal; Tomasz Grzywaczewski, journalist, documentary filmmaker and non-fiction writer; and Dr Tamás Magyarics, Senior Research Fellow at the American Studies Research Center at Ludovika Univ ..read more

Hungarian railway developments may see further advancements in the future within the framework of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, allowing for external financing and efficient modernization of the network, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Beijing on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, following over three hours of negotiations with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, an agreement was reached to include additional Hungarian railway developments on the list of infrastructure projects under China’s Belt and Road Ini ..read more

The United States will hold a dizzying array of state and federal elections this year, so European observers will necessarily focus their attention on the presidential contest and a handful of others. On paper, the North Carolina governor race wouldn’t likely count among them, but this year it should. North Carolina politics is fascinating in its own right. The Tar Heel State is a microcosm of interstate demographic shifts, class conflict, and the role of these forces in American politics. The state’s tremendous population growth, heavily driven by migrants from northern states, has continued ..read more

Democracy, despite common parlance, is not a modern construction. There has always been democracy in Europe; in fact, despotic regimes were very rare. The idea that ‘democracy’ is a modern phenotype has grown with the general rationalist, scientist outlook connected to ‘progress’. There was Ancient Greek direct participation in the ‘polis’. Iceland’s ‘Allthing’ was a federal assembly around 1000AD. The Holy Roman Empire had ‘Grand Electors’. Hereditary monarchs began to replace elective monarchs in most of Europe around the twelfth century. The French Revolution ushered in the decline of democ ..read more

The third annual CPAC Hungary is about to kick off tomorrow, 25 April. The venue is the Millenáris Park in the heart of the Buda side of Budapest. CPAC Hungary 2024 is set to take place on 25–26 April, with an illustrious slate of speakers. Former Prime Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland and Tony Abbott of Australia, President of the Party for Freedom, the winner of the last Dutch elections, Geert Wilders, Matt Schlapp, president of the CPAC foundation; as well as Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary will be among the speakers at the event. Meanwhile ..read more

Major American companies, such as Anheuser-Busch, Planet Fitness, and even Disney, have recently had to deal with backlash coming from the right for their woke policies. Anheuser-Busch did so for having hired transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson for their Bud Light brand; Planet Fitness for their policy of letting biological males into women’s locker rooms in their facilities if aid males self-identified as women; and Disney, among other things, for casting a Latina actress in the role of Snow White. Google—or rather its parent company Alphabet Inc.—was next to have a little ..read more

With a resounding bipartisan majority of 79 to 18, the US Senate has passed a $95 billion aid bill aimed at supporting Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine. This development resolves a months-long stalemate in the Congress, and upon receiving the signature of US President Joe Biden, new arms shipments can start. After Months of Delay US House Approves $95 Billion Aid to Ukraine and Israel Among Washington’s three allies, it is evident that Kyiv is the most in need of US support. The matter of aid for Ukraine has been extensively deliberated in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. ‘Make n ..read more

What was more of a bad joke a couple of months ago may become a reality after all: geriatric President Joe Biden may be re-elected in November. The 46th POTUS has been struggling with low approval ratings since September 2021. High inflation and foreign policy disasters—starting with the Afghan withdrawal, then followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas attack on Israel—plagued his first term in office. Despite that, the Democrats avoided the total beat-down in the 2022 midterms. Republicans only gained a narrow majority in the House, and the Democrats even gained a seat in the ..read more

This year, Budapest Park is gearing up with numerous enhancements and concerts by international stars as its 13th season kicks off on Thursday with a concert by Blahalouisiana. Among others, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Parov Stelar, Thievery Corporation, Yungblud, Body Count featuring Ice-T, Take That, Scooter, Bring Me The Horizon, Carl Cox, Rise Against, and Thomas Anders are featured in Budapest Park’s lineup this year. ‘We aim to surpass last year’s record; in 2023, nearly 700,000 visitors attended our events. This year, our focus is on the afterparty period, when revellers can ..read more

At the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview on stage that he protected Hungary from gender ideology. It’s true, but I sometimes wonder if Hungarians really understand what that means. Last week in the United States, President Joe Biden released new rules governing Title IX, a part of American civil rights law governing its application to discrimination against women. The new rules are 1,600 pages, making it longer than Tolstoy’s War And Peace. With no participation of Congress, Biden’s administration declared that the Title IX ..read more