The Danube Institute is a conservative think tank founded in 2013 and based in Budapest, Hungary.[1] The institute is financed through the Batthyány Foundation (BLA)[2] and receives Hungarian state funding.[3] According to its mission statement, the Danube Institute is dedicated to "a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy."[1]
The institute's president is British John O'Sullivan. Central European politicians associated with the Danube Institute include János Martonyi and Ryszard Legutko.[4] Fellows as of 2023 include religious movements researcher Jeffrey Kaplan, political philosopher Ofir Haivry, conservative author Rod Dreher, historian of Christian political thought David Lloyd Dusenbury, and sociologist Eric Hendriks-Kim. Research director is political scientist David Martin Jones.[5]
In 2019, a video of remarks made by Tim Montgomerie at a meeting hosted by the Danube Institute was published, creating a controversy regarding his views on the Hungarian government.[6] Other politicians who have spoken at Danube Institute meetings include the Australian politicians Tony Abbott and Kevin Andrews, and Václav Klaus, the former minister of finance of Czechoslovakia and then prime minister and president of the Czech Republic.[7] In 2021, the French politician Éric Zemmour gave an interview to the institute.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mission statement - Danube Institute". danubeinstitute.hu. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
- ^ "THE GOVERNMENT-FINANCED DANUBE INSTITUTE AND ITS DIRECTOR, JOHN O'SULLIVAN". hungarian spectrum. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Vogel, Kenneth P.; Novak, Benjamin (2021-10-04). "Hungary's Leader Fights Criticism in U.S. via Vast Influence Campaign". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ^ Wickham, Alex. "A Top Boris Johnson Aide Says The UK Will Have A "Special Relationship" With Viktor Orbán's Hungary After Brexit". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ "How Rod Dreher Caused an International Scandal in Eastern Europe". thebulwark.com. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Read, Jonathon. "Boris Johnson aide says UK will have 'special relationship' with Hungary after Brexit". The New European. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Klaus, Vaclav (September 21, 2023). "Václav Klaus: We Need Political World Economy, not Geoeconomics". Danube Institute. Václav Klaus' Institute. Retrieved July 19, 2024.
- ^ Koziol, Michael (2019-10-05). "Why Australia's conservatives are finding friends in Hungary". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
Further reading
edit- Balogh, Eva S. (2020-08-16). "The government-financed Danube Institute and its director, John O'Sullivan". Hungarian Spectrum. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
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