“It was strange to see someone vote for sanctions against themselves,” Benoît Lutgen, president of Belgian cdH, one of the parties requesting Fidesz’s expulsion from the EPP. Válasz followed the events live in Brussels as those demanding the penalisation of the Hungarian governing party were pitted against Viktor Orbán in the European People’s Party. There […]

Viktor Orbán managed to break certain taboos in Europe but he has not facilitated serious debates in Hungary, according to Lasse Skytt. The young Danish journalist was not pleased with the reports about Hungary so he moved here to see the politics with his own eyes. Válasz Online interviewed him at the very moment the […]

“You can never tell what freedom looks like“, relaxes himself the loudest founding father of Brexit asked by Válasz. Nigel Farage, the former leader of UKIP, is not even sure how will his homeland look like after leaving the EU in 43 days therefore he is rather about to continue as an MEP. Meanwhile he […]

He has never been concerned about what Russia thinks; notwithstanding, he is wary of the installation of a permanent US military base in Poland. In an exclusive interview to Válasz, the former commander of the US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, underlines that the modernisation of the Hungarian Army is on the right trajectory but […]

The Hungarian press has already reported about the lavish lifestyle of Hungary’s top business and political leaders. Válasz has now investigated that the luxury yachts and aircrafts used by the circle of Lőrinc Mészáros (prime minister Viktor Orbán’s close friend and – through that – one of the wealthiest Hungarians) is provided by PKF, an […]

The Turkish businessman Adnan Polat, who stands in the focus of the Erdoğan–Orbán axis, has transformed Hungary to a procession area of the wealthiest class of his compatriots: he and his fellows are already controlling 25 Hungarian business interests – and this is just the beginning. Válasz has investigated that the same group rounds up […]

An Oxford alumnus, war correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph from Afghanistan, former minister of national defence and foreign affairs as well as a one-year speakership of the Polish sejm before a rather disgraceful exit from politics due to a major bugging scandal and the 2015 election defeat of his party, the Civic Platform (PO). Yet, […]