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Hungary leads the way in defense of persecuted Christians
Yesterday Viktor Orbán delivered a speech at the International Consultation on Christian Persecution, organized by the Hungarian government and held in Budapest between October 11 and 13. We know that...
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Another European summit, with special attention to the Visegrád 4
The official word sent by the Hungarian government to foreign news agencies about the meeting of the Visegrád 4 prime ministers with President Jean-Claude Juncker over a lavish dinner, which included...
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Hungarian government warms up an old story: last year’s DCLeaks
Two days ago a garbled, close to incomprehensible, article appeared in Pesti Srácok, perhaps the most right-extremist organ of the Fidesz/Orbán government’s media empire. The article with great fanfare...
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Viktor Orbán on his role at the European Council Summit
Yesterday I tried to make sense of a garbled newspaper article in Pesti Srácok giving details of allegedly newly discovered documents that implicate certain Hungarian nationals who are in the pay of...
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Western worries about Russian disinformation just “fits of hysterics”
Two days ago the foreign ministers of the European Union met in Brussels with Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, presiding. She asked the ministers...
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A political deal was struck: The European Union, Hungary, and Rosatom
The independent Hungarian media has published about a dozen articles in the last few days about the revelations Benedek Jávor, Párbeszéd’s member of the European Parliament, managed to unearth about...
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Hungary and gender equality: An abysmal record
Ignác Romsics, a historian best known for his work on the twentieth century, is a prolific writer who just published an ambitious book, a one-volume history of Hungary. Romsics has been making the...
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Is China buying up Eastern Europe on the cheap?
It was in May of this year that I wrote a post about Chinese plans for the reorganization of the global economy and Hungary’s role in this scheme. At that time, I outlined Chinese plans for the...
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Hungary’s “geopolitical game”: Playing hardball with Ukraine
The Hungarian government has been flexing its diplomatic muscles ever since the Ukrainian government passed an education law that made Ukrainian the language of instruction from grade five on for all...
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European Union salvo against Viktor Orbán’s illiberal state
Yesterday an editorial appeared in Magyar Hírlap, a government-sponsored daily paper. The author reassured the paper’s readers that “yesterday nothing new happened; nothing was decided; the political,...
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Was Orbán’s bout with the EU a “points victory”? We will see tomorrow
Viktor Orbán, along with the other prime ministers of the European Union’s member states, is in Brussels at the moment, where among other things they are supposed to come to an understanding on the...
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The Orbán government’s international conference on the future of Europe, with...
Yesterday the Hungarian media got wind of an international conference on The Future of Europe, to be held between January 23 and 25, 2018 in Budapest’s Castle Garden Bazaar. The conference is heralded...
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Who is the real winner of the Austrian election? Perhaps not Viktor Orbán,...
On October 16, 2017, Hungarian government propaganda papers were ecstatic. It looked almost certain that the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), led by the young Sebastian Kurz, would emerge as the...
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The European Commission’s shameful role in the victory of Fidesz
I’m happy to publish this article, which I received from Hungary. It expresses the feelings of many, although they are cognizant of the legal constraints inherent in the constitutional setup of the...
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Will reality catch up with the Orbán regime?
Two significant events took place today. First, Viktor Orbán, during his regular fortnightly Friday morning interview, in a detached manner announced that his most important subordinate, his chief-of...
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Does Viktor Orbán want to be the Donald Trump of Europe?
In the last couple of days I encountered at least four or five sources which, with the utmost seriousness, claimed that Viktor Orbán in his speech at Tusványos announced his candidacy to become the...
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A new Fidesz campaign, this time targeting EU voters
Not too many tears were shed when the public learned that Zoltán Balog, Viktor Orbán’s spiritual mentor, had thrown in the towel and had chosen no longer to lead the gargantuan, unmanageable ministry...
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Judit Csernyánszki’s interview with Judith Sargentini
On December 14 Judit Csernyánszki of Klub Rádió interviewed Judith Sargentini, member of the European Parliament and author of the famed “Sargentini Report.” Her report convinced two-thirds of the...
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István Szent-Iványi: Quo vadis Hungaria? A book review
Just before the Christmas holidays I devoted a post to a rare debate between Zsolt Németh, who is described in his Wikipedia entry as “a man who has had a key role in the formation of Fidesz’s foreign...
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Viktor Orbán is feeling his oats
Yesterday, in my book review of István Szent-Iványi’s book on a desirable course for Hungarian foreign policy, I quoted at some length several of his recommendations. He is convinced that Viktor...
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