One of the oddities of the modern world is that the same people will greet the same statement with either applause or excoriation depending on who is making it. If Viktor Orbán (for instance) were to say: “in the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via
(The following four articles have been contributed for the Budapest Family Summit of 25–27 May. Courtesy of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources. – The Editors) * Today, the prevalence of falsehood over truth has increased. It is the most worrying sign that is detected in the public domain. Lies,
For an Ambassador to the Holy See and a father of six it is very natural to begin this reflection on the importance of family values with a thought of Pope Francis that always moves me. The Pope loves to talk about the “dinner table experience” as defining for family.
In the 21st century among the chaos of the new secular morality of equality, diversity and tolerance, the world’s civilisations and its leaders have forgotten the meaning of being human, lost the blueprint of how to protect the humane in humanity, and failed to create a life space for human
Whether a nation can rejuvenate, or renew itself with its own power, is an existential question. Some say, “Europe is a continent of empty cradles”. Even Hungary has been fighting the demographic crisis for three and a half decades; for thirty-five years, each and every year more people died than
Keynote Speech on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome Budapest, 23 March 2017 There are three common misunderstandings about Hungary in the EU that must be clarified; namely, misunderstandings about 1) what we do not want, 2) what we want and 3) what we judge
The British and European supporters of preserving Britain’s EU-membership have gone to almost any length in the referendum campaign to emphasise that Britain has in fact no alternative to Europe. As Hugo Young put it in his work on the troubled history of British– EU relations: “This is the story
The title is somewhat misleading, as is the case when the purpose of the title is not necessarily to reflect the content, but rather to attract attention. To dispel any misunderstandings, the question mark does not refer to the fact that Brexit will happen. It will. But when, how and,
That European politics, from its nexus in Brussels to the individual nation states, is in a state of flux is hard to dispute. Indeed, the result of the US presidential election indicates that politics throughout Western civilisation is in a similar state. The symptoms of this turmoil can be felt
For much of the twentieth century a chorus of Wagnerites and Modernists has fixed the image of Eduard Hanslick, dubbed by Verdi the “Bismarck of Viennese music criticism”, as a reactionary curmudgeon trapped in the aspic of formalism and clinging to a narrow canon that began with Mozart and more
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