Letters to Hungary
11 August 2015
I was recently attracted to a reader’s letter in a leading Catholic newspaper, which sought to highlight some uncomfortable facts concerning the cultural background of many of the immigrants who are arriving on Europe’s shores.
9 August 2015
So once again, Hungary’s Prime Minister makes another pilgrimage to Transylvania and once again, another speech to rally the faithful and inflame his enemies.
Following on from last year’s ruminations on ‘illiberal democracy’, Victor Orbán’s latest speech addressed the ‘meaning of Europe’. Touching as it did the thorny problems of immigration, security and values, it was inevitable that it would be met by howls of orthodox apoplexy by the more liberal fraternities in Europe.
27June 2012
This has been the week of European visions. Without the merest hint of national consultations, the central European institutions launched a new centralisation plan for future economic policy and planning. Having presided over the debacle that is monetary union and the humbling of the Euro, Europe’s unelected elite tell us the answer is more federalism and a dilution of sovereignty.
8 June 2012
A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Orbán spoke eloquently on the subject of Hungary’s role in Europe. His opponents, both at home and abroad, castigated his view of Europe as being petty-minded, nationalist and misguided.
28 March 2011
The European Union (EU)’s foreign policy regarding the continuing political unrest and conflict in the Arab world has been cruelly exposed as ineffective and fragmented. Hesitancy over Tunisia and Egypt has been compounded by an inability to coordinate any sort of intervention in Libya. What’s new, you might ask?
Well, the problem is that there is another major crisis about to hit Europe and judging by the EU’s initial handling of the issue, a mighty row is about to ensue.