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"From the EU’s point of view, if you as a country do not have homosexual marriage or transgender rights or the latest cutting-edge discovery of welfare or immigration rights, you violate 'democracy' and virtually have no rights at all" - was pointed out by Charles Kesler, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

The incoming President of the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs talked to us about Hungarian foreign policy, American-Hungarian relations, as well as ways to ease Hungary’s isolation.

"Any putative norm must have broad consensus within the context of a plural world with very diverse political, economic and social settings. It cannot be the lopsided imposition by a powerful or vocal elite as this would be an act of disenfranchisement" - pointed out by Professor Thio Li-Ann in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

By a landslide. According to the majority, things are on the wrong track and the former President could make a difference. Even more interesting is who Americans consider their arch enemy.

"To have a free, democratic republic without an education that inspires young citizens to love their country, and to desire to keep it worth loving on one hand, and, on the other, to raise such citizens without a serious religious education is unlikely to produce anything good or lasting" - Richard Samuelson, professor of Hillsdale College pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

"I think the West was in too much in a hurry, and it was too optimistic (especially for this part of Europe) that democracy would be the resolution of a problem or that Russia would be so weak that it could not contest a Western hegemony that was evolving and developing in Europe in the 1990s" - Michael C. Kimmage, professor and department chair of the Catholic University of America pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

“Today there is a risk that in modern administration, people with power are not necessarily fond of traditional American habits, religion, and way of life. There is always a tendency in administration to try to impose new rules on people you do not like” – Adam White pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

"I should say, I am glad for any country, Turkey or otherwise, to try to find a way to bring this catastrophic war to an end" - Professor Norman Naimark pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

"Prime Minister Orban is actually doing something that has already been forgotten at the European level: he is acting in the interest of his people" - Harald Vilimsky pointed out in a conversation about the ongoing armed conflict as well as on the future of Europe.

"If you permit your country to become economically needy, he believes, it will be used against you. Whatever the energy sanctions mean to the European Union, it makes economic sense for Hungary to try to avoid them" - Christopher Caldwell pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.