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The Hungarian Model March 31, 2025

Flashy hotels and upmarket restaurants now dominate the center of Budapest, a city once better known for its shabby facades. New monuments have sprung up in the center of town too....

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Poland is a Model U.S. Ally – Let’s Act Like It March 25, 2025

Earlier this month, Elon Musk inserted himself into another political debate about Russia’s war on Ukraine. In his comments, he noted his Starlink system as the “backbone” of the Ukrainian army, asserting that, “their entire frontline would collapse”...

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Trump Must Consider a Stronger Lithuanian Partnership March 20, 2025

As a first-generation American of Lithuanian descent, I have a strong connection to this Baltic country. My parents fled Lithuania in 1985, then under Soviet control, and arrived in America in 1986 for a shot at the American dream.Like millions of fa...

Hungary’s Demographic Exceptionalism January 22, 2025

By some measures Hungary’s fertility support is the world’s most effective ...

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EU Denies Hungary a Billion Euros After Reform Failures January 02, 2025

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Orbán: Looking the Lone Democrat at the EU October 11, 2024

If anyone wanted to witness a chemically-pure concentration of all the ailments afflicting the Western political class, they could not have been better served than by the debate, as disheartening as it was revealing, that followed Viktor Orbán’s spee...

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Hungary’s Lessons for Donald Trump October 11, 2024

Viktor Orban has seized control of nearly all the levers of power in Hungary since he became prime minister in 2010, effectively turning the country into an electoral autocracy. ...

Hungary's Orban: Brexit Broke the EU October 08, 2024

“Brexit changed everything,” he told press gathered in the European Parliament. Prior to Brexit “Europe was balanced between those who wanted a more centralised, federal European Union on one side, and on the other side countries who wanted… independ...

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Orbán Warns of Imminent ‘Escalation’ in Ukraine War July 19, 2024

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has published a memo he wrote for European Union leaders in which he warns of an imminent escalation of the Ukraine war. ...

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Turkey and Hungary Play Their Own Game at NATO Summit July 13, 2024

Turkey and Hungary came to the NATO summit ready to hedge and bargain....

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The Habsburg Empire Strikes Back July 12, 2024

Viktor Orbán’s new hard-right group, Patriots for Europe, is a Habsburg coalition that gives the Hungarian leader the European platform he craves. ...

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Hungary’s Orban Concludes Beijing ‘Peace Mission 3.0’ Visit July 08, 2024

Habsburg Ghosts Hover Over Central Europe July 05, 2024

The first-place parties in Austria, Hungary, and Czechia have come together to announce a new European Parliamentary grouping, which they have termed “Patriots of Europe.” The newly christened bloc has fallen under criticism by some who see it as too...

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Will Hungary’s Elections Repeat Poland’s Liberal Sea Change? June 25, 2024

The right won big in the EU elections, but another conservative government in Central Europe is in trouble. ...

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Déjà Vu All Over Again? Appeasement Then And Now June 21, 2024

“Munich” again? Hold the angst. Historical analogies are treacherous because “like” is not “same.” Still, the disastrous appeasement of the Thirties does yield insights into our era. Hitler et al. are safely buried. But today, a new cast of character...

‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary Set for EU Presidency June 21, 2024

It wasn't exactly a surprise when Hungary revealed an official slogan with Trumpian overtones this week for its six-month stint holding the EU presidency, but "Make Europe Great Again" still raised a few eyebrows in Brussels. ...

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Orban: Hungary Will No Longer Veto Support to Ukraine June 12, 2024

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Europe’s Future Is Being Written in Hungary May 18, 2024

Will Viktor Orbán really march to Brussels and, as he claims, “occupy” the heart of the European Union? ...

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American Conservatives Ignore Orbán's Wooing of China May 18, 2024

Hungary’s flowering relationship with China, on full display during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s triumphant two-day visit to Budapest, is a blazing three-alarm fire. Will America conservatives respond to the call? ...

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The Logic of Hungary May 15, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about mass demonstrations in Budapest in which protesters expressed resentment against alleged financial corruption running rampant through the country – corruption they believed the government was involved in o...

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Hungary's Viktor Orbán Is No Friend of America May 13, 2024

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently visited Europe with aims to change the current global order. Although his trip to France got most of the headlines, his trip to the central European nation of Hungary was considerably more interesting. ...

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Who Will Inherit Europe? May 10, 2024

For all the pomp and ceremony attending the French leg of Xi Jinping’s European tour, it is the stops in Budapest and Belgrade that carry the greater geopolitical significance for the future. ...

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Assimilation and Immigration May 10, 2024

At last month’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Hungary, Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek opened her speech with a powerful statement: She summarized a handful of crimes which made the European headlines in the previous four day...

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Xi Lands in Hungary May 09, 2024

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Hungary and Serbia’s Leaders To Roll out Red Carpet for China’s Xi May 07, 2024