On 7 October 2024, Ákos Holányi was guest speaker at the Small (nation-)states research centre at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. In his lecture, he introduced the Babel Machine and presented the results of the first year of poltextLAB’s flagship research endeavour, the Momentum V-SHIFT project. He showed how the saliency of and sentiment towards great powers and European powers have changed over thirty years in the Croatian, Czech, and Hungarian parliaments.