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Johanna Laakso: Eerie echoes
Johanna Laakso is a professor in the Finno-Ugric Department of the Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft at the University of Vienna. She received her Ph.D. from...
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The two-thirds majority stands: Fidesz won the election in Borsod
The result of the by-election held today in the 6th electoral district of the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén is not immaterial, even if the loss of the two-thirds parliamentary majority most likely...
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Szilárd Demeter’s loathsome attack on George Soros
It is hard to miss the fact that, in the last few days, every utterance by Viktor Orbán contains multiple references to George Soros’s pernicious influence on the European Union. The prime minister’s...
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Orbán loses key players in his match with the EU
Reverberations of the Demeter article The response both at home and abroad to Szilárd Demeter’s anti-Semitic outburst was one of uniform condemnation, accompanied by demands for his dismissal as...
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Viktor Orbán lashes out against another enemy: the Germans
I discovered, thanks to an opinion piece that appeared today, that Szilárd Demeter’s infamous article “Soros” was not a singular ill-tempered outburst but part of a series of articles published in the...
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Szijjártó wrote letters to three future members of the Biden cabinet
I believe that spending another post on the Orbán government’s reception of the Biden administration is warranted, especially since I found several indications that the present Hungarian regime is...
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Republican congressman Andy Harris’s real Hungarian roots
A few days ago, I devoted a post to a great friend and supporter of Viktor Orbán in the U.S. Congress, the lone Republican congressman from Maryland, known for his far-right views. He was the...
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Orbán’s visit to London further damaged his reputation
After the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Press Office announced a forthcoming visit by Viktor Orbán to London to discuss bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Hungary, practically the entire...
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The two friends see eye to eye: Poland and Hungary
I’m certain that not too many Hungarians have ever heard of Przemysław Czarnek, the Polish minister of education and science since mid-October 2020, shortly after he was appointed a full professor at...
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László Bartus on the anti-Semitism of the Orbán regime
László Bartus is editor-in-chief of Amerikai Népszava, a Hungarian-language weekly established by social democratic printers working in New York City in 1899. Under Bartus’s leadership, starting in...
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