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Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is an alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is a dual-citizen of the United States and Poland.
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Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is an alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is a dual-citizen of the United States and Poland.

Tucker’s Grocery Store and the Decline of the West

‘While Budapesters aren’t wealthy, their lives are safe, purposeful, and filled with objective beauty. They perceive that they are temporary stewards of a valuable human condition and assume their descendants
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele addresses his supporters from the balcony of the Presidential Palace in San Salvador after his re-election in the 4 February 2024 presidential election.

El Salvador: A Lesson in Geopolitical Leverage

US foreign policy is set ‘to remain volatile and subject to disruption with changes of government and the whims of the political class. For a country like Hungary—arguably lacking the
Leaders of the three opposition parties after signing the coalition agreement

Polish Elections Constitute a Setback to European Conservatives

For Hungary, this is an unmitigated disaster. While Robert Fico’s return to power in Slovakia offers some reason for optimism, Hungary’s northern neighbours certainly will not replace the Poles as
Leaders of the Polish liberal opposition parties (L-R) Szymon Holownia and Wladyslaw Kosiniak Kamysz of the Third Way party, Donald Tusk of the Civic Coalition, and Wlodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Biedron of the Left party pose with the signed coalition deal at the Polish parliament in Warsaw on 10 November 2023.

Polish Elections Constitute a Setback to European Conservatives

‘Once the power transition issue subsides, revenge is likely to become a central issue in Polish politics. Among the presumed incoming government’s proposals are journalistic purges and political show-trials, precisely

Budapest Migration Conference Offers Dialogue at Critical Policy Moment

The Mathias Corvinus Collegium, in collaboration with the Migration Research Institute and the Wacław Felczak Institute of Polish-Hungarian Cooperation, held a conference in Budapest, in which renowned experts discussed one
Graduates of the postgraduate programmes of MCC taking a selfie at the graduation ceremony in Budapest on 28 May 2022.

‘The Best Defence of MCC is the Intellectual Content Created There’ — An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of The Guardian

The editors of The Guardian must have overlooked it, so Hungarian Conservative is now publishing the response of Danube Institute visiting fellow, alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program Michael O’Shea

The Pole, the Hungarian, Two Brothers Be — Both Are Behaving Rationally

These Central European brothers find themselves amid the type of calamity inevitable in all bilateral relationships. Yet, history, geography, politics, and economics all ensure they will continue to raise glasses
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‘We are exiting the world where a single superpower calls the shots’ – Interview with Abishur Prakash

Nations are no longer defined by their geography, or past, or history. They can imagine a new destiny for themselves with technology.
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Pope Francis’s Missed Opportunity in Hungary

Pope Francis missed this opportunity to embrace a country that has charted a remarkably Catholic course in the heart of secular Europe.
Picture of Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is an alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is a dual-citizen of the United States and Poland.
Picture of Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea

Michael O’Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is an alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is a dual-citizen of the United States and Poland.
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