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Category: VOLUME VIII, No. 3

MOVING TOWARDS POST-DEMOCRACY? – EDITORIAL NOTE

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 NECESSARY STRENGTHENING OF THE TRUTH

(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,

FAMILY VALUES AND EUROPE TODAY – IN THE MEDIA AND IN REALITY

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.

THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

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 ‘ANGLOSPHERE’ – AN ALTERNATIVE TO EUROPE?

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

BREXIT. BREXIT? PART I

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,

VIENNA VIGNETTES – A NOTE ON EDUARD HANSLICK

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