“As reliably as the announcement of the first cuckoo in spring, letters appeared in the liberal press after the Tory triumph in the British general election on 12 December 2019 complaining that the electoral system in the UK was dysfunctional and unfair. I think we can assume that the writers
“In future, people who can continuously educate themselves will be needed; people who can cooperate and co-create with artificial intelligence. What will be needed is not just labour but, increasingly, “post-Renaissance men”. In addition, the development of artificial intelligence may redefine both legal capacity and productivity. To put it simply,
The Hungarian Diplomacy Day is, first of all, a day of remembrance and gratitude. Expressing gratitude to all those who represent the interests of our country in any and all areas of international relations to the best of their knowledge and abilities. But who really are diplomats? Everyone, all of
Our culture, religious and secular traditions and the efforts of our best minds and artists are all designated as what the world that we want to build should be like. While the fate of nations living in the shadow of bigger nations is a constant balancing act, we ultimately have
“What President Reagan was doing, what John Paul II was doing, what Margaret Thatcher was doing – all three were appealing to the power of spirit in the hearts of men and women. Be not afraid; you are not alone; your resistance is not futile. That was their central message.
“It is good to know – and hear and read – that today Jozsef Antall’s achievements are also recognised by his former political opponents. Because, as Speaker of Parliament Gyorgy Szabad put it on the day after the Prime Minister’s death in December 1993: ‘The greats of a nation who
I. STAGES OF EUROPE’S PEACEFUL REVOLUTION Thirty years after the end of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of European unification, three aspects ought to be kept in mind. The Context 1989 began long before 1989. Social pluralism had been growing in both Eastern and Western Europe over decades. In
“Hungary’s young revolutionaries had changed how the world saw Goliath. Yes, but more importantly they had changed how the world saw Hungary and Hungarians, not as bitter-sweet ironists, witty pessimists with a death-wish, compromised realists, but as ordinary people who were also gallants, gambling against great odds and turning their
“From the mid-1980s the leading diplomats of the Western powers maintain a day-to-day contact with the Hungarian opposition, as well as with the leading reformists of the Hungarian Communist Party. From 1988, the Hungarian opposition builds institutional contacts with Western European parties.” The advertised title of our exchange needs to
“The Wall symbolised what we already knew: that Communism was a system built on a fragile foundation. One that would not last. Communism everywhere and all the time must rely on coercion. That means that its leaders can never ease up on repression. The moment they do, the people tear
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