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Now that György Matolcsy has completed the first half of his six-year term as President of the National Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, MNB), the chief question to be asked is whether it will be possible, during the remaining barely three years, to maintain the kind of energy circulation

Experience shows that the following is an oft-recurring situation in diplomacy: a highly debated question is at stake, the two parties facing each other are both experienced and intelligent, their approach is unquestionable; their respective positions, however, cannot be reconciled, despite the fact that they understand the common language –

Hungary’s leading conservative think tank, Századvég Foundation has jointly organised with Budapest-based Danube Institute and Hungarian Review a conference on Margaret Thatcher on 5 May 2016. The event was the second of a series entitled A Europe of Values. In this issue we are publishing contributions by three former British

INTRODUCTION The theme of the conference is Thatcherite “principles of governance” – glossed as moral conviction, an iron will. Certainly she possessed both qualities – I can testify to that having spent some four years in her office. John O’Sullivan knew her better still. She was a rather motherly person,

Margaret Thatcher died in April 2013. She is still close to us. Historical judgements about her are still likely to be controversial. But it is already clear that Margaret Thatcher has left a legacy. That is not as normal, let alone as inevitable, as you might suppose. Very few prime

I WHAT IS INDEED TTIP? 1. Is it one of the most important efforts of our time to promote trade, growth, prosperity and employment by dismantling trade barriers in order to benefit more from the public good of international trade? Or is it a new, powerful weapon of globalists to

MELINDA BÁNYÁSZ (PhD) – professor of English and Hungarian – was born in 1977 in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She completed her studies in Hungarian Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature, at Babeș-Bolyai University, in her native city. She defended her doctoral thesis in 2013 at the same university,

The figure of Charles de Gaulle remains unexplained in sufficient depth, at least in Hungary. As professor of Szeged University, I recall classes in constitutional law where we would talk for hours about the American Constitution, describing the administrative organisation of the United States, analysing Great Britain and the legacy

THE LIVING MEMORY OF GAULLISM Michel Anfrol,President of the Friends of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation,in interview with Ákos Bence Gát The seat of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation is located in a building which in times past served as headquarters for the RPF, the party created by General de

Is Brexit, the issue on which the British public will shortly vote in a referendum the doomed dream of those who wish to restore British national sovereignty? Or is it the nation’s political destiny? At the time of writing, online polling suggests roughly equal support for the Leave and Remain