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HUNGARY ELECTIONS: INSIGHTS FROM A CLOSED DISCUSSION SIX MONTHS LATER

04/14/2026 Remigijus Simasius Photograph from a closed roundtable discussion held in 2025. Last November, the Centenary Policy Institute organized a discussion in Vilnius with Márton Hajdú. The discussion was closed — one of those cases when we could not publicly disclose either the meeting itself or, even more so, its conclusions, as the topic was highly sensitive: the Hungarian elections and the possibility of political change in Hungary. Márton Hajdú is an election strateg

Apr 14

HUNGARY ELECTIONS: INSIGHTS FROM A CLOSED DISCUSSION SIX MONTHS LATER

EUROPEAN BUREAUCRACY IS FINALLY LEARNING TO COUNT TO FOUR MILLION

03/26/2026 Remigijus Simasius "Destroyed Russian armed vehicle in Ukraine. Russian aggressors definitely want to the EU. Do we want them here?" Picture ©Ukrinform Almost three years ago, when the Centenary Policy Institute first raised the idea that EU sanction lists should feature not a symbolic 2,000, but at least 4 million participants and supporters of the aggression, it was met with an arrogant smile in the corridors of Brussels. The System’s self-preservation instinct

Mar 26

EUROPEAN BUREAUCRACY IS FINALLY LEARNING TO COUNT TO FOUR MILLION

ITALY’S BATMAN AND GERMANY’S COUNT OF MONTECRISTO: HOW MELONI AND MERZ ARE REDEFINING EUROPE’S DEFENSE IDENTITY

06/25/2025 by Francesco Galietti (founder of Policy Sonar, a Rome-based political risk consultancy) Federal Chancellor Merz and the Italian Prime Minister Meloni © pa/dp Giorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz come from different backgrounds and experiences, yet their political trajectories are increasingly intersecting, shaped by the tectonic shifts in Europe and the world. The Italian Prime Minister, a product of Rome’s working-class Garbatella district, and the German Chancello

Jun 25, 2025