The British conservatism, the program of the Tories from Benjamin Disraeli to Boris Johnson and the question of how liberal the British conservatism actually is, are all important in our today’s time.
As most developed countries, Ireland was strongly affected by the global financial crisis and needed many years in order to recover from the economic downturn starting in 2007.
In an interview, Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first to climb Mount Everest, commented on one of the central qualities of a leader: “There are some people who are natural leaders, who have the ability to think quickly or choose the right decisions at the right moment. But I think there are an awful lot of us who have to learn how to be a leader, and in actual fact, I believe that most people, if they really want to, can become competent leaders.”
Hungary gets bad press in many Western European countries. According to the UK’s The Guardian newspaper, for example, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán is an autocrat who is suppressing minorities and is corrupt. The Economist even considers Hungary an elected autocracy! Dutch mainstream news outlets almost always write about Hungary with a rather negative slant, democracy in danger.
Crisis situations such as the current war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global challenges such as wealth inequality and climate change put the finger on the question: what is the role of business in societies? Is it to make profit and in this way to serve society with goods and services?
Thirty years ago next month a brutal war broke out in Bosnia. It lasted three and a half years and left more than 100,000 dead, most of them Bosniak Muslims. Today, as war once again erupts in Europe, the shadow of conflict still hangs over Bosnia.
In the latest edition of the MCC Podcast series, Bálint L. Tóth from the Center for Political Science asked Rodrigo Ballester, Head of the Centre for European Studies at Mathias Corvinus Collegium about the legal aspects and possible political consequences of Ukraine’s fast-track EU membership request.
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