Europe
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The European Commission wants to decide what’s European and what’s not
One of the fundamental misconceptions of the Western Balkan countries – the product of decades of propaganda – is that the European Union today is the legal and political bearer of European culture (or, in our parlance: the motherland of Europeanism), and that as such it is in some privileged relationship with what our politicians… Continue reading
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Orbán defeated after 16 years: the EU cheers
On April 12, 2026, Hungarian voters delivered a decisive blow to Viktor Orbán’s long dominance. Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party swept the parliamentary election with roughly 53.6% of the vote and 138 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly—securing a two-thirds supermajority. Fidesz-KDNP slumped to 37.8% and 55 seats, while the far-right Our Homeland picked up about… Continue reading
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Nietzsche and Europe
Friedrich Nietzsche lived during a time of significant societal and cultural changes in Europe. The 19th century was marked by the rise of nationalism, industrialization, urbanization, and the spread of Enlightenment ideals. Nietzsche, however, was critical of the direction in which European society was heading. He saw modernity as a period of nihilism, where traditional… Continue reading
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