Tamas Arki

The inside is more or less known while the outside is unknown, different, exciting. This is a very basic observance but this keeps many things in motion for the modern person: this is why we read (now that I am here, report) international news, watch foreign movies or travel to other countries or states on holidays or vacation. Getting to know what is „outside” is interesting, exciting, edfying, enlightening.

Before the elections in April, Hungarian politics were on the homepages of news websites all over the world. Peter Magyar and his TISZA party have since gone on to win the elections by a landslide and have insisted ever since that Hungary is returning to Western orientation and foreign policy resting on Hungary’s agenda but also on its Euro-Atlantic alliance.

A region once made inaccessible by ice is rapidly becoming one of the most contested spaces in global politics. As Arctic ice disappears, routes are becoming more navigable, creating shorter distances for transoceanic shipments than current ones using the Suez or Panama canals. Melting ice also provides access to previously unexploited natural resources: the region is home to vast mineral and rare-earth deposits, as well as oil reserves estimated to hold 20% of the world’s remaining fossil fuels.