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ELECTIONS
The hotel where I’m staying in Budapest is dominated by journalists and election observers. It’s hardly surprising – it’s affordable yet comfortable, and well-connected.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
It’s funny to read how the European left-wing media twist words.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
The release of recordings of conversations between Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov was intended to be the opposition’s…
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
Spy scandals said to be "on the scale of Watergate" have hit the Hungarian election.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Just before the Hungarian elections on April 12, the leader of Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jarosław Kaczyński, gave a joint interview to Brussels Signal and to…
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
Brussels Signal has obtained a letter sent by the heavyweight Polish legal think tank Ordo Iuris (Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture) to all European prime ministers,…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
The scandal this week involving the bugged conversations of the Hungarian foreign minister was intended to deal a fatal blow to the ruling camp in Hungary.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
The Washington Post has run a bizarre story about how an unnamed “European intelligence service” had discovered a plan by the Russian secret service to stage a fake assassination…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Hungary is probably the only country in Europe where, just over a month before the elections on April 12, the picture might be so unclear, so foggy.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
When I called a Hungarian politician, who is highly placed among the current political elite, yesterday evening and asked him how he assessed Marco Rubio's visit to Budapest,…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
Some of Donald Tusk's voters who are less familiar with the current behind-the-scenes goings-on may have had the impression that someone mixed up the texts during the recording…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
When I interviewed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in July, I asked him, among other things, what his plan was to stop what he considered to be bad EU projects, including…
CORRUPTION IMMIGRATION
In my favourite park in Warsaw's Bródno district, I like to sit on a bench with a cup of coffee after my Saturday morning running workout.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
A few days ago, Polish Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia, the speaker of the lower house, asked in the parliamentary chamber whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk wanted to take…
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
Whether at the Brussels level or in our national states, everyone knows something of liberal-leftist groups and of figures embraced by the European Commission.
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
The nomination by right-wing leader Jarosław Kaczyński, of the dynamic Karol Nawrocki, a candidate from outside the world of politics, and a good election campaign (despite…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
When Polish Justice Minister and General Prosecutor Waldemar Żurek sat down in his office a week ago to record a piece of video for his social media accounts, he was visibly…