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This interview by Pavel Kiselev with history and geopolitics expert Alexander Bovdunov addresses the current reality of Eastern Europe. The book that Bovdunov has just published has had a wide resonance among Russian conservatives and has become essential to study the political and philosophical processes in Eastern Europe.
On the 30th of January, Vienna was the scene of an official meeting between Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban and Austrian federal chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The main points of discussion were migrants, the future of the EU, and equipment for and the construction of ‘Paks-2’.
The European people – including us – have had enough of being made to accept globalisation as an irresistible force. We have had enough of being told day and night that there’s nothing we can do, we must accept our lot, adapt and bow down. We wanted and continue to want the European Union to be a guarantee and a vehicle with which the European nations protect their shared ideas of civilisation. In reality, however, we have made ourselves more vulnerable than we used to be. In every crisis situation they cry “Europe!”, as if it were a magic word which on its own is capable of turning around our fate. Europe has found itself in a dead-end. We Hungarians know why, and we see this most clearly at times like this, on the twenty-third of October. In the twentieth century the trouble was caused by military empires, but now, in the slipstream of globalisation, it is financial empires which have risen up.
Hungary’s ruling populist party, Fidesz, and its charismatic and popular leader, Viktor Orbán, have established themselves as the leading opposition within the European Union to globalism and to Brussels itself since coming to power in 2010, and crossed swords with the Obama administration as well. I have detailed some of their earlier accomplishments in this regard in a previous essay, and of course Orbán’s continuing role in refusing to allow Hungary to be victimized by the migrant crisis is well-known. Orbán’s overall program can perhaps best be summed up in the declaration he made in 2014, in which he stated his intention to remake Hungary as an “illiberal democracy.”
The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said his country will welcome west Europeans who have had enough of mass migration and “the lords of globalist politics”.
Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin is heading to Hungary, which is Russian's old political ally despite Russia-West tensions.This is Putin's first visit to the European Union since the U.S. presidential election.
Hungary plans to crack down on non-governmental organizations linked to billionaire George Soros now that Donald Trump will occupy the White House, according to the deputy head of Prime Minister Sz
A nationwide plebiscite on the admissibility of the distribution of migrants in EU countries according to the quotas set out by Brussels, was held in Hungary on the 2nd of October. Its results can be considered as a strong shock to the European Union, as well as having similarities to Brexit.
Voters are being asked: "Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly?"
An unidentified type of explosion rocked central Budapest late on Saturday, causing injuries to two police officers nearby, police said in a statement on Sunday.
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