How much do we learn about people and places from diplomatic communiqués, political speeches, and government white papers? And how much from novels, plays, poems, travel writing and memoirs (those of actresses rather than of statesmen, of course)? Any answer to this enquiry must differ not only according to the
Let us assume that an alien, from Betelgeuse say, comes down to Earth to see how things are done there. He (she, it, ze, zo, zhe, zho whatever?) would find it difficult to avoid coming to the conclusion that the European Union is in serious trouble and, equally, that those
I find the question in the title of this session not well specified. Europe is a continent. It is not a political or decision-making unit. It is a geographical, cultural and civilisational entity. To a certain degree Europe is a homogeneous area, an area culturally and civilisationally different from the
One of the most crucial phenomena of our times is mass migration, for which we have to find sustainable and coherent answers, even within Europe. Hungary, taking into account the demographic trends in the sending states and the general regional crisis, rejects plans such as the quota system, which provide
A question mark completes the title of György Granasztói’s article on the election of 2010 to make it 2010: What Happened? It signifies more than punctuation. Its author believes, as he explains early in the essay, that history sometimes proceeds in short revolutionary jumps to a new stage of politics
The French magazine Esprit has an influential role in French intellectual life, with a current circulation of 10,000 copies. On the twentieth anniversary of the political changes in Hungary,1 the articles about events in Hungary, published between 1945 and 1990, provide a base for taking stock and making an assessment.
The goose that lays the golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else’s goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege. They control the people through the people’s own money.
Budapest Talk, 27–28 September 2017 The gist of my talk is this: We have a problem in the democratic world with robed, ex-lawyer mandarins who remove issues from the political sphere by declaring them to be constitutional in nature and thereby put them beyond discussion and resolution by mere citizens
There is no doubt that George Gömöri is held in high esteem in Poland, in literary circles no less than in the upper echelons of scholarship. He has a place in the Pantheon of those foreigners who have made particularly vital contributions to Polish culture, especially literature. Moreover, he occupies
The prison compound in Szamosújvár, built under the reign of Maria Theresa, continues to exude an oppressive air in its latter-day expanded form. Making plans for revisiting the grounds, we Hungarians realised just how ill-prepared we were to cut through a Byzantine maze of red tape. I had to obtain
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