Two nephews have long since stopped being nephews. They are surely not sabers, due to the fact that they stand on opposing sides of geopolitical and civilizational barricades.
And neither is simply a glass, due to the fact that common lairs exclude a successful social life. Of course, it is the political class of both countries and the intergovernmental level. On civilian and private grounds, Polish-Hungarian friendships and friendly contacts proceed to flourish. Poles respect Hungarians with reciprocity.
Unlike leading Polish politicians, Viktor Orbán deals with reflection beyond the current inter-party who-who. The Prime Minister of Hungary, at an yearly conference at the Free summertime University in Transylvania, gave another speech on the programme rank reflecting the political thought of the Hungarian leader. That's it. Think. This may be somewhat surprising, due to the fact that most representatives of the European political class, at the head of the Polish, deficiency this thought. This is not about a circumstantial thought, a peculiarly close to our heart. It's about the thought of any, even the globalistic or neoliberal one. Nobody formulates any political concepts in a clear manner. Even the skill is gone, and possibly besides the desire, for any analysis, not to mention forecasts.
Let us, however, decision on to 1 aspect of this thought in a clear way, written by Orbán. Let us halt at geopolitical elements concerning our region of Europe. For many decades, the subject of the reflections of people who are prone to geopolitical and civilisational reflection has been the possible integration of Central Europe, understood much more than the Visegrad quadrangle (V-4), which actually covers the area of the same thing as what has been utilized in political journalism late to mention to as the Intermortal or Trimortal. Sensibility of this format was most likely best captured by the Chinese, who proposed the expression 16+1 (16 countries of our region plus the PRC) as the most appropriate to the challenges of in-depth cooperation in the implementation of the 1 Belt initiative, the 1 Trail. According to the Prime Minister of Hungary, it meant that a number of countries connected with a community of historical fate, a semi-peripheral character in the planet economy, a akin social structure.
Visegrad cooperation and its expanded versions were to respond to the challenges posed by the game of neighboring powers. In this sense, the Central European region could spread among another poles of the emerging multipolar planet – especially Russia and Western Europe dominated by Germany. This was not a geopolitical panacea for all our problems, but 1 of the proposed and discussed solutions. However, there were at least 4 currents within the concept of Central European integration. The first considered it to be possible subject to obtaining an external umbrella, and in fact a vassalization by the United States.
The second assumed that China could become the main economic, investment and technological engine of our Old Continent region, curious in sustainable cooperation and focusing on stability. The third, least powerful, proposed sovereign improvement based on its own potential. Finally, the 4th took the view that the Central European region should freely roam between existing poles – powers, while maintaining a comparatively equal distance to each of them. It seems that Prime Minister Orbán has begun to carry out this last scenario. Meanwhile, subsequent Polish governments uncritically put on the first of these options, somewhat modified and deformed. According to her, Warsaw was to head the semi-periphery paying tribute to Lenna zaoceanic protector, subjecting almost all spheres of its interior and external policies (especially in the east section) to Washington and its London branch. For Central Europe, the function of a geopolitical ram in implementing the strategy of the conflict against the integrated Eurasia was planned.
The criticism of Orbán at Warsaw is full justified. We could have achieved a lot together. However, the Polish political class preferred to ignore the invitation of nephews and to ask for the establishment of an Anglo-Saxon collar and Atlantic leash. That's why Warsaw and Budapest are on different sides of the barricade. Politically, they are no longer nephews.
Mateusz Piskorski
Think Poland, No. 33-34 (11-18.08.20124)
