Morawiecki, Kuchciński, Mastalerek, and Fogiel were guests at a pro-Russian right-wing conference in Budapest

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024

Conservative political gatherings in Budapest and Bucharest feature far-right figures critical of Western stances on Russia and Ukraine.

🔗 Read the article on wyborcza.pl


[This is an automatically generated summary, for reference only]

Hungarian organizers announced that former Prime Minister Morawiecki will speak at CPAC on April 26th, two days before the conference begins, with Gergely Gulyas speaking before him. Viktor Orbán himself will not attend; instead, Irakli Kobachidze of Georgia will open the event on April 25th, criticizing the West for trying to draw his country into a war with Russia and defending new anti-foreign agent laws modeled after Russian legislation. The conference in Budapest is an international branch of the American conservative gathering, attracting various right-wing activists and commentators, reflecting Orbán’s alignment with Trumpist ideals such as strong immigration policies and centralized leadership. Attendees include figures like Paul Gosar, who has questioned US aid to Ukraine, and Marek Kuchciński from Poland’s PiS party, alongside Fidesz leaders Mate Kocsis and Gavin Wax, who advocates for total war. Other participants include Gabor Kubatov, whose club is sponsored by Gazprom, and Ryszard Czarnecki of PiS, who views his presence as a mission to guide Hungarian allies toward a better path regarding Russia. Later, on April 27th, Czarnecki will speak at the MEGA conference in Bucharest with Jack Posobiec, alongside figures promoting misinformation. The text concludes by noting that while some Polish politicians plan to seek European coalition partners in Budapest, the overall list of attendees suggests a marginalized group and indicates Viktor Orbán’s isolation from the European mainstream.


🔗 Read the original article

© 2026 Pulse - Europe beyond the beat


PULSE is an initiative for cross-border collaborative journalism in Europe co-funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement n. PO 4500158093.

PULSE is an initiative coordinated by OBCT that has been promoting intensive journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. Its main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting on and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

Additional outlets and journalists are involved as associate partners, including EUobserver , Føljeton (Denmark), H-Alter (Croatia), Levila (Estonia), Rubryka (Ukraine), and The Journal Investigates (Ireland).

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved. It collaboratively produces new journalistic content on European issues on a daily basis, coming in many different languages. The editorial output amounts to over a thousand publications per year, mostly in article form.

PULSE also runs 4 thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, relations between the EU and other global powers, the EU’s green transition, or media and the information society. These networks function as online communities and periodically publish calls for pitches.