This is Budapest: a big city that dreamed and then built for itself a colourful past during the last decades of the old world, in those final moments before the dawn of modernism.

Scruton wrote that the foundation of democracy is not necessarily liberalism but a sense of national loyalty.

The former Soviet satellite states which mainly joined the EU in 2004 are the main bulwarks against the revival of ideologies with their roots in communist thinking.

In the age of soft colonization and hybrid neo-colonialism, the war of independence must be fought in the cultural field in the first place.

The Recovery Plan is an unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis. It also exemplifies the dilemmas the Union faces in the most turbulent period of its short history.