ATTILA BALÁZS (Novi Sad/Újvidék, 1955), writer, translator, journalist. Author of twelve books of prose. Founder of the cultural magazine Ex Symposion. He worked as editor for the YU Radio- Television, moved to Budapest in late 1991. For a time he worked as war correspondent, then as political correspondent for the
One hundred years ago a war began that swept away imperial institutions and national powers that had appeared to be permanent, irremovable and deeply rooted structures of European life. To take the most dramatic example, the Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov dynasties – with all their aristocratic associations and bureaucratic stability
Reflections after the Scottish Referendum In his fine and important book Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity, the late Samuel Huntington, a US political scientist of great rigour and high reputation, recalled the changing fortunes of patriotism in the second decade of the 21th century from the
No one had time for a deliberate aim or time to think…There is no mystery about the outbreak of the First World War.The deterrent failed to deter. This was to be expected sooner or later.A deterrent may work ninety nine times out of a hundred.On the hundredth occasion it produces
Looking back at the past year, there is little doubt that the EU has changed. There has been a redistribution of power and the complex array of different EU institutions are involved in a political contest. The outcome and the consequences of the contest will certainly produce a different kind
2. […] A widely accepted definition, not accurate though, states that the word “utopia” denotes a political project which is idealistic in its intentions, but completely unrealistic, impractical and incompatible with human experience. The writers of utopias are therefore usually looked down as naïve sentimentalists or feared as dangerously inhuman
1. INTRODUCTION I have very pleasant associations with the capital of Hungary. Not only because the city – as you well know – is beautiful, but also because it is close to me. I was born in Przemyśl, a small town in the southeast corner of Poland. During the First
At 8:15 a.m. on 8 June 1950, LLD Milada Horáková entered a Prague courtroom with twelve others accused of political crimes against Communist Czechoslovakia. There, she was barraged with one vitriolic salvo after another as the frenzied prosecutors accused her of plotting the destruction of the republic, espionage, and conspiring
IN MEMORIAM of my mother Paula Hertlik1910–2007 She taught us to live and love and be all that not harms freedom and dignity. *** “There is one experience that happens to nearly all human beings alike, and that is war.”George Orwell “War will be the music of the future.”Gyula Krúdy
Chapter from a Memoir in Progress* Back in February of 1939 Hungary’s Regent, Miklós Horthy, had forced the resignation of the pro-German Prime Minister Béla Imrédy and named Count Pál Teleki, an anglophile, to lead the government. Both Regent Horthy and Prime Minister Teleki despised Hitler and believed that the
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