Category: History

I am returning to my country richer – not in a material sense, but intellectually – than when I left. And I think it would not have been possible without your help.” The quote is from a book of interviews published last year in France, on the Congrès pour la

Roselyne Chenu Talks to Nicolas Stenger about the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Eastern Europe* Nicolas Stenger: How were you assigned to the so-called “Eastern” European programme? Roselyne Chenu: In 1965–1966, [Michael] Josselson asked Jeleński1 to take the lead of the programme of seminars within the Congress, a task he

Those whose consciences would not permit them to comply with the shrivelling of Christianity were forced to keep that witness and fellowship alive outside the purview and protection of the church–state settlement. And this is indeed what occurred in the 1960s and 1970s – vital church life, where it existed,

“There were rumours in town that the pro-Nazi and rabidly anti-Semitic State Secretary László Baky was planning a coup to remove the Regent and to continue the deportations. Koszorús, having received an order from Horthy, entered Budapest with his troops and sent a courier to Baky threatening him with military

In recent decades Hungary has been supporting in various forms and with varying degrees of intensity the autonomy aspirations of the ethnic-Hungarian community living in Serbia. It has concluded a bilateral treaty with Serbia concerning the reciprocal protection of rights of Hungarians living in Serbia and Serbs living in Hungary

Thousands came day after day. Under a sprawling tent known as the canvas cathedral, they gathered to hear a captivating young Baptist preacher. It was his first major city crusade, supposed to last for three weeks. But, such was the demand, Billy Graham stayed in Los Angeles for two months

They circle the edges of the forest, the prefect’s police. Suspicion is their profession, but as the morning passes, they gradually grasp that there will be no breach of order here. Thousands are sitting in the clearing, orderly. No one orchestrates them. Among them, permeated even against their will by

Introduction It is just twenty years since Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon. In this treaty the Hungarians had been branded as war criminals even though none of us had wanted war until we were dragged into it by foreign powers who forced us into battle and

“The government programme concentrates on structural modernisation and shows a liberal economic mix of reducing the tax burden and regulations for business, as also for the individual tax payer. Despite the obvious differences of the coalition partners on the future of European integration, the government did agree on a pro-European

“The notions of the rule of law, European values, democracy, human rights and equality, so often invoked in European discourse, actually lack a precise (and therefore potentially authoritative) definition. As such, they can be twisted and stretched to any length and tweaked in any manner in the name of fundamental