Category: VOLUME XI, No. 6

LETTER FROM AMERICA – THE 49 PER CENT NATION IN THE HOUR OF DECISION

“It is a contemporary political cliche that American politics is deeply polarised. Americans settled on their views of Mr Trump early. Those views are firmly held and to a degree not seen in decades cut across party lines. A major factor in Mr Trump’s 2016 victory was party switching by

HEAVY LIFTING FOR THE GERMAN EU PRESIDENCY

“The EU is attempting to put final touches on three mega-projects, all of a transformative nature. A carbon-neutral transformation of economy, the ‘Next Generation Fund’ (NGF) to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis, and the introduction of a ‘Rule of Law’ (RoL) mechanism all have the potential

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S NEW PACT ON MIGRATION AND ASYLUM: CONFLICTS RELOADED?

“The European Commission (EC) has presented its new set of proposals to reform the European Union asylum and migration management system. The long-awaited package includes a number of EU legislative proposals, with the clear-cut intention to provide policy solutions that all member states can accept and support. Indeed, the proposals

IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY – US COLD WAR POLICY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

After the Second World War, the power of the United States and its commitment to world politics took on unprecedented proportions. The foreign policy moves of the superpower came to be determined by Cold War considerations, and its foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere was no exception. From the Act

TRIANON: A NATION’S TRAGEDY – PART II

As we have seen, Romania re-entered the war, in its final days, on the Allied side. It was present and recognised as an ally at the Paris Peace Conference. But were the territorial promises made in 1916 still valid? The Romanian Prime Minister Brătianu maintained that they were. On the

THE STRUGGLE FOR A JUST PEACE – SPEECH DELIVERED BY COUNT ALBERT APPONYI, PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN DELEGATION TO THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN PARIS, BEFORE THE SUPREME COUNCIL AT ITS SESSION ON 16 JANUAR

Gentlemen, Allow me to repeat my thanks for the opportunity you have afforded us of expounding our point of view. What I really desired was to have a verbal discussion, because this is in my opinion the only way to an understanding and a clear comprehension of the complicated questions

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ANTAL BABUS (Gyöngyös, 1960) literary historian, librarian. Graduated from Debrecen University (KLTE) in 1984 majoring in Hungarian and Russian Philology. He obtained his PhD from the same university in 2002. He has been working in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the