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Democratic Security
Union Jack and the White Eagle. Significance of the Poland-UK Defence Treaty
28 May 2026
18 May 2023
Editor-in-Chief
Warsaw and Budapest were illiberal partners in crime before Russia’s full scale invasion, but after 24 February 2022, Hungary-Poland relations have deteriorated into enmity.
Over one year into the war, the rift between Hungary and Poland only deepens. They used to call themselves partners-in-crime who would “steal [European money] horses together” (Kaczyński in 2016).
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Just three months before the invasion, Warsaw was so head-over-heels in love with Budapest that it hosted an international event for the crème de la crème of pro-Russian political parties, trying in vain to please Hungarians and establish a common political platform.
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Editor-in-Chief
Wojciech Przybylski is leading strategic foresight on EU affairs to improve democratic security of Poland in Europe. He organises EuropeFuture.Forum as the Editor of Visegrad Insight and the President of Res Publica Foundation. An advisory board member at LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, European Forum of New Ideas. A guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, Warsaw University and CEU Democracy Institute. He co-authored among others a book 'Understanding Central Europe’, (Routledge 2017), and 'On the Edge. Poland' (Culturescapes 2019), 'Let's Agree on Poland' (Oxford University Press, 2025) and was widely published in the international press.
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