Occasionally, a birthday crops up to give one pause for thought. The date is May 7, which is 70 years since the passing of a stellar star, Eva Peron (1919 – 1952), a diminutive figure of a woman who has frustrated left and right since she inspired belief in the power of women worldwide.
The international press loudly proclaimed that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would face his ‘toughest’ election fight ever, polls pointed to his potential defeat, and the EU withheld much-needed recovery funds from Hungary in the run-up to the election. Yet, Orbán not only prevailed but did so in a fashion that has left many in the Western media and political establishment in shock once again. Now, as the dust settles, what lessons can we take away from his historic win?
A Transylvanian Franciscan monk of Hungarian ethnicity, Csaba Böjte, has been nominated by Hungary for the Nobel Peace Prize for his three decades of work in creating a network of orphanages in neighbouring Romania, Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler announced on Thursday.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his nationalist-populist Fidesz party scored a resounding victory in last night’s election, with results showing that the party would once again win a two-thirds supermajority. While declaring victory in Budapest, Orbán thank Hungarians for placing their trust in him once again.
How often do we relax to the quintessential melodies of Spain’s Isaac Albéniz (1860 – 1909). His Rapsodia Espanola, Sevilla and Granada, based on Catalan folk songs, are perhaps the better known of his compositions. These exquisite mind-bending melodies evoke the Spanish dream more than could any Goya painting; but what of the man behind the music?
The ancient German city of Cologne’s twin-spired cathedral is as iconic to Germany as is the Kremlin to Russians. Now, the city of Cologne will remove the iconic Cologne cathedral tower from its logo. It will use a new logo in the future for the letterhead and on work clothes, but a large outcry has erupted due to the decision.
Hungary’s Christian KDNP party is accusing the left of using an illegal offshore database to contact voters against their will. Hungarians go to the polls on April 3. The left is carrying out the biggest election fraud in the history of Hungarian democracy, said Lőrinc Nacsa, a spokesman for the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP), in a video statement sent to MTI on Thursday.
Paivi Maria Rasanen was accused of inciting homophobia due to quoting the Bible and stating that marriage was a union between man and woman. A Helsinki court has dismissed all charges against former Finnish minister Paivi Rasanen and Lutheran bishop Juhan Pohjoli in a trial portrayed as a major litmus test for freedom of speech that garnered international attention.
Perhaps not for the first time in history but transparently the Biden criminal class already mired in economic domestic gangsterism on a scale that eclipses Chicago at its most damning periods of gangster history.
Where is NATO when you really need them to do something actually useful in their lives? Illegal border crossings into the European Union have remained significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, as a 78 per cent increase in illegal crossings was recorded by Frontex last month, compared to the figures reported in January 2022.
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