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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOrbán’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...
View ArticleRepublican 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...
View ArticleSzijjártó 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...
View ArticleViktor 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...
View ArticleOrbán 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...
View ArticleSzilárd 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleJohanna 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...
View ArticleThe price of breaking Fidesz’s two-thirds majority in parliament
On August 19 I wrote a post in which I described the Orbán government’s outrage over a sentence in a lengthy interview about the lack of rule of law in Poland and Hungary. Ten days later, Magyar Nemzet...
View ArticleThe Hungarian foreign minister lashes out
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had barely disembarked from a luxury yacht provided for him and his family by one of the supporters and beneficiaries of the Orbán regime, László Szíjj, when he fired...
View ArticleUnfounded myths from the early years of Hungarian democracy
Among the many alternative “research institutes” the Orbán government established is one with the long title of Research Institute and Archives of the Regime Change (Retörki). Its director-general is...
View ArticleViktor Orbán and his enemies, the “libernyákok”
Viktor Orbán, after emerging disheveled from four days of day and night negotiations, announced that he would sleep for two solid days. Unfortunately, after a couple of days he reemerged reinvigorated...
View Article444: George Soros: The man who would have killed his mother
The excellent Hungarian internet news site 444.hu published a list of 99 headlines on the “evil activities” of George Soros, whom Viktor Orbán has transformed into a monster in the last ten years. As...
View ArticleLászló Kövér calls members of the opposition compradors in the pay of the...
It is almost inevitable that, at appropriate intervals, a government publication or television station has a long interview with László Kövér, the president of the Hungarian parliament. It is also...
View ArticleAnti-Semitic? Racist? Never mind! Beatrix Siklósi, the new head of Kossuth...
David Irving, the “historian” infamous for his denial of the Holocaust, has a long working relationship with the Hungarian far right. Irving’s career is well summarized in Wikipedia, including a...
View ArticleUsing a sexual harassment case for political purposes: Government takeover of...
Sometime in the middle of November, a sexual harassment case hit the Hungarian media, which happened in 2018 but surfaced only a year later. I must say that I didn’t pay much attention to it because...
View ArticleHigh-ranking Fidesz leader’s anti-Semitic comments shake the Hungarian Jewish...
Fidelitas, Fidesz’s youth organization, had a congress where all the big guns, with the exception of Viktor Orbán, delivered rousing speeches about the great future that lies ahead for the...
View ArticleSajtóklub’s messages are not an aberration but part and parcel of the Orbán...
Ever since I finished my post last night on the latest falsehood about George Soros, I have been carefully going through the Hungarian government media for its reaction to the official denial by...
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