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Orbán’s „mixed race speech”: Nazi talk or a badly phrased political diversion?

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gives a speech at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő, Transylvania, on 23 July 2022. Source: MTI/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Benko Vivien Cher.

Hate-mongering, unacceptable words reminiscent of fascism and nazi ideology – these are some of the comments on the speech given by Viktor Orbán in Băile Tuşnad, Romania in July, at this year’s event of the annual “Tusványos Festival”.

Gabriella Horn Gabriella Horn

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Brothers in arms 

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Slovenski Branci meeting in Trnava; photo: Wojciech Grzędziński

Paramilitary organizations from Poland and Slovakia are tightening their partnership. Members of the Slovak Recruits and Strzelec have been training together on shooting ranges and exchanging weapons. Both groups are linked to far-right and pro-Russian movements.

Tomáš Madleňák Konrad Szczygieł

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Nazism under a red and white flag

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Source: Frycz&Wicha

On 11th of November nationalists marched through the capital of Poland. European extremists gather every year in Warsaw to be seen and to count their ranks. Independence March is not a patriotic picnic. It is a show of force, a right-wing, radical, and constantly growing force.

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The ‘Far-Right International’: Genuine coalition prospects or media stunt?

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Hungary's PM Orban, Poland's PM Morawiecki and Italy's League party leader Salvini meet in Budapest
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C), Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (L) and Italy's League party leader Matteo Salvini (R) give a statement after their meeting in Budapest, Hungary, April 1, 2021. Source: BERNADETT SZABO / Reuters / Forum

The pandemic did not kill the far right. Nor did it stifle media interest in the topic. The painstaking attention devoted to the formation of a ‘Far-Right International’ revolving around the Hungarian Fidesz, the Italian League, and the Polish Law and Justice (PiS) parties is a good case in point.

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The Golden Boys of Fatima

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Fernando Antunez Aldunate (center) and Jędrzej Stępkowski (right), prominent members of Piotr Skarga Foundation Institute of Social and Religious Education during a March for Life and Family, 20.09.2020, Warsaw. Photo by Reporters Foundation

Tens of millions of zlotys, expensive properties, and a behind-the-scenes war for influence and money – we reveal the financial dealings of an empire built in Poland by a group of Catholic fundamentalists.

Konrad Szczygieł

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