John O’Sullivan: Trump and Europe
26.02.2025
How to re-conceive the relations between the United States and Europe in the light of the second Trump era? A discussion with one of the leading figures of the European conservative thought, John O’Sullivan.
John O’Sullivan is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. He served as Margaret Thatcher’s Special Adviser and speechwriter on 10 Downing Street when she was British prime minister (1987-1988) and remained close to her until her death. In the 1991 New Year’s Honours List, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
John O’Sullivan is the President and founder of the Danube Institute in Budapest, international editor of Quadrant Magazine in Sydney, Australia; associate editor of the Hungarian Review, a fellow of the National Review Institute, and editor at large of National Review. He is a co-founder and director of Twenty-First Century Initiatives and the International Reagan Thatcher Society.
He was also the vice president of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and one of the initiators of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international platform founded in 1996 in Prague by Margaret Thatcher and Vaclav Havel that played a crucial role in the accession process of the Central European countries to NATO.
His book, “The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister,” on the roles played by Pope John Paul II, President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher in the collapse of communism and the revival of Western market democracies, has been published in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Italian, and Hungarian.
The discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 26, 17:00 at CEVRO University and moderated by Alexandr Vondra.