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Volume VIII, No. 6

Editorial Note

EUROPE AND LIBERTY

One of the more striking changes in the democratic politics of recent decades has been the blurring of the line, once sharply distinct, between foreign policy and domestic politics. Not

Current

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION

1 Express their deepest solidarity with the Christians and other religious minority groups that are being persecuted all around the world. 2 Welcome and support all activities of government agencies,

NEW CHALLENGES FACING DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW

Most national constitutions affirm and enshrine the principle of popular sovereignty. The classic tenet states that political power is derived from the people, and is exercised by the national Parliament

CONSERVATISM, POPULISM AND CONVICTION POLITICS

If one of the attributes of political skill is to convert the opposition to one’s point of view, then the obvious comparison for John Howard is with Margaret Thatcher. I certainly see the likeness, and so did she. Both converted their opposition labour parties to economic realism to the benefit of the country. Unfortunately, it is starting to look as if both conversions were temporary and both

THE ISSUE OF GERMAN WAR REPARATIONS TO POLAND

European politics and public affairs are once again preoccupied by Poland’s rekindled claims of reparation of wartime damage against Germany. The issue is contested fiercely by politicians backed by an

Essays

History and the Arts

GROWL – YUGO-HUNGARIAN HOWL

In homage to A. G., J. Sz. and all the others I saw the bolshiest minds of my minority in the wreckage of madness, stripped hysterical naked in night streets

BÉLA BARTÓK: PICTURES OF A LIFE – PART I

135: The Bartók and Kodály Anniversaries There is no question that Hungarian cultural memory exploits every occasion to celebrate the twin stars of its 20th century music, Béla Bartók and

ART DECO SYMPOSIUM IN BUDAPEST

The Budapest-based Hudec Cultural Foundation (HCF) was the initiator and organiser of the Art Deco Budapest Symposium taking place in January 2017. The Hudec Cultural Foundation is a non-profit organisation

Our Authors

OUR AUTHORS

VIKTOR ORBÁN (Alcsútdoboz, 1963), Prime Minister of Hungary in 1998–2002 and since May 2010; graduated in Law at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in 1987. In 1983, as a student he