One of the most perceptive interpreters of current political forms is not very well known outside his native country. His name is Bálint Magyar, but because he is Hungarian, his name should more correctly be ordered the other way round: Magyar Bálint. Professor Magyar of the Central European University is a former Education Minister of […]
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Looking back on it from 2026, Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US Presidential election may just be seen as the thing that catalysed a deeper sense of EU identity. You read that right. I write this on the morning after the vote that ushered him to the White House, with a dark sense of […]
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Consider these two seemingly opposed but somehow related pieces of news from the last few days of the U.S. presidential election campaign. According to Politifact, a Pulitzer-award winning site dedicated to fact-checking, Hillary Clinton has said mostly truthful things in this electoral campaign, while Donald Trump has said mostly false things: in over 500 statements […]
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After almost 10 months without a government in Spain, Mariano Rajoy was finally re-elected as Prime Minister. At his second attempt, he won the vote of investiture last Saturday. Shockingly, this was made possible by the abstention of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). Although considering the results of last June’s election (the second election […]
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