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• The Russian plan to blow up a Czech ammunition depot may have been directed from Budapest
• The Orbán regime on the Orbán regime
• Will Hungary stand by the Czech Republic against Russia?
• Under the cloak of secrecy: facts about the ravages of COVID-19
• Fudan Hungary University: an independent academy?
• Sebastian Gorka is back in the news, both here and in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s latest business venture: Fudan University in Budapest
• Orbán has abandoned the idea of regulating Facebook; he will rely on his internet hussars instead
• Rebellion? No, resentment and frustration
• A blow to the Hungarian government’s embrace of the Chinese vaccine
• Viktor Orbán, the commanding general in the war against COVID, and Slovakia’s trials with Sputnik-V
• Friday potpourri: football vs COVID, Petry, and the Szeged professor
• The Hungarian government goes on the offense against Germany and Austria
• ATV shows its true colors in the Klubrádió case
• A German football club fires an intolerant Hungarian coach
• Viktor Orbán’s ideal family wasn’t the norm then, nor is it now
• Zuzana Palovic and Samuel Ďurovčik: Why isn’t dual citizenship permitted in Slovakia?
• Was Slovak-Hungarian dual citizenship the catalyst for Igor Matovič’s downfall?
• Chinese espionage in Hungary
• One piece of bad news after another: Orbán’s nerves are frayed
• Alone, all alone, Viktor Orbán seeks allies in the European Parliament
• József Kardos: “The inevitable fall of Arturo Ui,” An open letter to János Áder, president of the Republic of Hungary
• Klára Dobrev in the crosshairs of the government media
• “Neighbors”: Ethnological fable and comfort soap
• Orbán is not sure that teachers deserve to “jump the line” to be vaccinated
• Fidesz joins the ranks of the homeless in the European Parliament
• Calling Hungarians “migrants” violates the dignity of the nation
• Experts are being sidelined as the Orbán government deals with the pandemic
• Hungarian media in the post-truth world
• Possible prime minister candidates in the race to the finish in 2022
• Paul Lendvai’s “The Hungarians” — A book review
• József Papp: Hungarian Economy Is Distorted and Disorientated by Grants
• Shifting goalposts, slippery numbers, vaccine availability: dealing with the pandemic in Hungary
• The Lenin Boys, the Red Emigration, and the West against Hungarian democracy
• SZFE’s “Emergency Exit” and its lessons for Viktor Orbán
• Fidesz hands out prizes to its political loyalists
• Sándor Petőfi, the conservative revolutionary
• Joseph Forgas: The unfinished revolution? The social psychology of an anniversary
• Hungarian cardiology institute promotes intercessory prayer for heart patients
• Hungary’s purchase of the Chinese vaccine: a “true crime” story?
• Klubrádió: ask Alexa, not the Media Council
• The difficulties of reading texts
• Orbán’s anti-German propaganda in full swing
• Despite all the hype about Chinese and Russian vaccines, most Hungarians have been vaccinated with Western products
• Surprising developments in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations
• Fidesz is going after Jobbik’s popular Péter Jakab
• The emperor has no clothes: The failure of Orbán’s vaccination system
• The brave warriors of Fidesz at work
• After 21 years, a bad marriage between EPP and Fidesz ends in divorce
• When a former cop reforms the country’s healthcare system
• Life after the pandemic–the European Commission’s plans to introduce an EU-wide digital green pass
• EPP and Fidesz: A parting of the ways
• From heroes to traitors: two football players who stood up for tolerance
• The pandemic has derailed Viktor Orbán’s dream of increasing the size of the Hungarian population
• Momentum’s Fekete-Győr is playing a dangerous game
• Krisztina Tóth’s encounter with the rabble of the Orbán regime
• Better safe than sorry: An escape tunnel can always come in handy, as Rákosi knew
• Final push
• Under the watchful eye of the independent media: László Parragh, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• The prodigal son is back in the fold: István Stumpf is commissioner of the “model change” of universities
• Vaccination, Hungarian style
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• What were Lajos Kósa and the “heiress” up to?
• Viktor Orbán in defiance of the European Union
• Viktor Orbán’s European mission and its rejection by Slovakia
• The Orbán government under pressure from the West
• A reminder
• A diminished and subdued speech by Orbán in parliament
• CEU’s Democracy Institute: A research center in a time of need
• The story of Antal Rogán’s latest wife, Barbara
• Why should the Hungarian police seize material for a documentary about the separation of Siamese twins?
• No agreement between right and left on the final days of World War II in Budapest
• The Orbán regime had enough of the government-critical Klubrádió
• Can the European Commission use leverage against the Orbán government?
• Please support Hungarian Spectrum
• An ill-fated encounter between the Russian and EU foreign ministers
• The extreme right’s response to the documentary on the Arrow Cross murders
• Orbán’s propaganda media is taking up the fight against “gender ideology” and the LGBTQ community
• Viktor Orbán answers some personal questions on homosexuality and multiculturalism
• In focus: Sputnik-V and Sinopharm
• Zoltán Haris, the victim of communism, was a member of the Hungarian Communist Party
• New opinion polls in Hungary offer hope to the opposition
• Zoltán Pokorni and the Memorial of Murderers
• Zoltán Hariss/Harris, Klubrádió, and the Institute of Political History
• Embarrassment of riches: 13.5 million vaccine doses for 10 million Hungarians?
• The story of Gábor Boros, another Hungarian researcher at BioNTech
• Justice Minister Judit Varga in the limelight
• A new era in Hungarian-Ukrainian relations?
• Orbán’s attachment to things Russian, including Sputnik-V
• Klubrádió: Conspiracy Theory?
• Orbán lauds Hungary’s “heroic” military efforts alongside soldiers of the Third Reich
• Orbán accuses the European Union of hoarding vaccines in warehouses
• Republican congressman Andy Harris’s real Hungarian roots
• Szijjártó wrote letters to three future members of the Biden cabinet
• Awaiting a new era in U.S.-Hungarian relations
• Generous help for the rich Fidesz crowd: The Kisfaludy Program
• Gratuities and healthcare reform in Orbán’s Hungary
• The “World” Hunting Expo, an expensive attempt to jump start tourism in Hungary
• Herd immunity in Hungary? Unlikely, if Orbán has his way
• Orbán’s Congressional allies Andy Harris and Paul Gosar under a cloud
• Gáspár Orbán’s road to Sandhurst
• Orbán’s Hungary is in many ways an inferior version of the Horthy regime
• Economic “recovery” in Hungary
• Whither Hungarian foreign policy?
• The Orbán media’s disparaging coverage of the United States
• Orbán’s latest falsification of events, both in Washington and Budapest
• The Hungarian Version of Storming the Capitol (2002 and 2006)
• Hungarian pro-government reporting on the Washington events and the Biden administration
• The Orbán government is ready to defend democracy from Joe Biden
• Words have power: from “asszonyság” to the pervasive sexism in the Hungarian right-wing camp
• A recent debate on vaccination in Hungary
• The “Hungarian” vaccine for which an “asszonyság” is responsible
• A youthful Viktor Orbán revisited: 1985-1987
• Happy New Year to all
• Viktor Orbán feels contempt equally for Karl Marx and the Nazis
• The conditionality provision seen in the light of the Helsinki Accords
• A “private” institution designed to breed right-wing intellectuals
• Gergely Prőhle’s views on nationalism and the far right
• Hungarian media stocking stuffers, a government Christmas present to Poland, and two interviews
• Wishing all the readers of Hungarian Spectrum a happy holiday season
• The Battle of Pozsony, which allegedly decided the fate of Hungarians
• Back to the Middle Ages: Miklós Kásler’s Christmas greetings to educators
• Scandals and the mishandling of the pandemic have taken their toll on Fidesz
• An early Christmas present for Hungarian democrats
• Halve the local business tax, squeeze the Hungarian opposition
• Háry János’s misadventures with COVID-19
• How much can Fidesz take and “keep moving forward”?
• Do EPP sanctions on Deutsch foreshadow Fidesz’s departure from the group?
• The reception of family minister Katalin Novák’s video is anything but enthusiastic
• Portrait of an American lobbyist for the Orbán government
• Viktor Orbán as the leader of a unique EU samizdat program
• Viktor Orbán’s offensive motifs: A Hungarian card game and Hitler’s bunker
• Viktor Orbán in search of a new EP group
• Compromise is not a popular concept in Hungary: Reactions to the Merkel-Orbán deal
• Angela Merkel’s compromise: Did Orbán win or lose?
• There are vaccines and vaccines
• Fidesz seems to be leaving EPP, while the Polish-Hungarian brothers stand fast
• In another Hungarian swipe at the EU, Szijjártó takes on the commissioner for justice
• Introducing Tamás Deutsch, successor to József Szájer as leader of Fidesz in EPP
• Viktor Orbán struggles to cast his battle with the EU as a strategy to protect Hungary from immigrants
• Poland backs down, leaving Orbán isolated
• Viktor Orbán’s troubles: József Szájer and the European Commission
• József Szájer resigned after a sex scandal in Brussels
• Viktor Orbán lashes out against another enemy: the Germans
• Orbán loses key players in his match with the EU
• Szilárd Demeter’s loathsome attack on George Soros
• What is behind Viktor Orbán’s chance remarks?
• Dissecting Viktor Orbán’s train of thought in his “non-debate” with George Soros
• Viktor Orbán’s answer to George Soros did not meet Project Syndicate’s standards
• Will Orbán lead Hungary from an overheated economy to insolvency?
• Outfitting the Catholic Church
• A typical Hungarian story: Katalin Karikó
• Hungary’s scramble for an early vaccine from Russia and China
• Who will resolve the current EU crisis: Merkel or Orbán?
• The Polish and Hungarian governments “cannot take 440 million people hostage”
• As its sovereign debt grows, Hungary buys two Embraer military planes
• A lethal game of chicken?
• Polish-Hungarian vote against EU budget and rescue package
• Review: Júlia Király’s book on the Hungarian financial crisis of 2008
• Anti-gay-lesbian amendments to the adoption law
• Orbán’s propagandists at work at the “public” television station
• Free Europe’s revelations about the government-controlled news on Hungarian public television
• Viktor Orbán at work: New amendments, new tricks
• A “fundamentalist” Christian Basic Law for a non-religious country
• Helter-skelter decisions: Orbán in panic mode
• Viktor Orbán threatens to veto the EU budget
• After a long wait, the United States has a president-elect
• Orbán: “I measure success in the number of dead.” He is in trouble.
• The Czechs and Slovaks abandon Poland and Hungary on the issue of the rule of law
• Disappointment that is hard to hide: The Orbán government and the still undecided U.S. election
• The U.S. election in the Hungarian media
• History that does not glorify the nation is “stomach-turning”
• The Russians took notice, and they are not happy
• An adequate minimum wage directive is on the table in Brussels
• Legal complexities surrounding the restoration of the rule of law in Hungary
• Polish women in a revolutionary mood
• Good riddance, Mr. Ambassador
• Viktor Orbán, Russia’s Trojan horse in Europe
• Hungarians assess the U.S. presidential election and risk factors in the next Hungarian election
• Opening of the Imre Kertész Institute
• Gay bashing in Hungary, with the Pope in the crosshairs
• A true celebration of October 23, 1956
• Following up on some current issues
• Political troubles in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Is Hungary next?
• A Fidesz rector fires the head of the ethical committee that was investigating him
• János Lázár is still a fervent fan of Viktor Orbán’s policies
• Trouble ahead: Orbán is probably losing an ally abroad and is facing danger at home
• Biden bashing in Budapest
• A favorite psychologist in Orbán’s Hungary promulgates gender stereotypes
• The cleaning lady gives injections in the medical office of a village Fidesz mayor
• Ákos Hadházy’s political blunder
• Taking stock after the election in Borsod
• The two-thirds majority stands: Fidesz won the election in Borsod
• Viktor Orbán’s nominee for chief justice of the Kúria
• Women politicians in Brussels irritate Fidesz and its leader
• The court case is won but the deed has been done: The case of CEU
• The consensus is that Orbán’s healthcare reform is a disaster
• New legislation shakes up the remuneration of Hungarian doctors
• Is the Orbán government planning to follow in Poland’s homophobic footsteps?
• Telex is live; the Hungarian right is outraged by a book of fairy tales
• Magyar Nemzet’s coverage of recent U.S. politics, II
• Fidesz is facing two foes: COVID-19 and a united opposition
• No Faustian bargain: Orbán will not sell his dictatorship for €6 billion
• Magyar Nemzet’s coverage of recent U.S. politics
• Viktor Orbán tries to blackmail Ursula von der Leyen
• Johanna Laakso: Eerie echoes
• The Mohács by-election
• Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán: Mutual admiration society
• Fudan University is establishing a campus in Budapest
• Radio Free Europe/Szabad Európa has returned to Hungary
• Hard times ahead for East-Central Europe: COVID-19 and the Pact on Migration and Asylum
• What is the real message of Orbán’s essay, “Together we will succeed again”?
• Viktor Orbán’s battle cry against liberalism and the European Union
• Public reaction to the quality of Hungarian healthcare
• Socialization and nationhood: War on Hungarian culture from beyond the borders
• Students in Pécs on SZFE and the “system”
• “Reporter”: A very Hungarian death: The true state of Hungary’s health system
• Is MSZP waging its last internecine war?
• The mad world of Orbán’s Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s new enemy: Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, II
• Viktor Orbán’s new enemy: Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative
• A Fidesz-supported center and its controversial video
• Voice of Freedom – Silenced?
• The Orbán government once again tries to silence Klubrádió
• Viktor Orbán’s choice to save his two-thirds majority: Zsófia Koncz
• Hungary may end up with two ports on the Adriatic: Trieste and Koper
• Viktor Orbán and the country’s economic crisis
• The tense standoff between SZFE and the Hungarian government
• What pandemic? It’s just a conspiracy theory
• Ákos Hadházy: It is the present system of EU funding that punishes the Hungarian people
• Fidesz and the anti-Semitic far right: the case of Ernő Raffay
• Artistic and press freedom; government funding priorities
• Vidnyánszky vs. the Hungarian theatrical community
• One boring day in an ordinary parliamentary democracy
• The horrors of school openings in Hungary
• “Observer”: The Simonka affair
• The price of breaking Fidesz’s two-thirds majority in parliament
• In case you think I make this stuff up: weather report from Bethany
• This is getting tedious
• Viktor Orbán and other Fidesz heavyweights didn’t spend their vacations at Lake Balaton, after all
• A free family vacation–Szijjártó cruises the Adriatic on a Hungarian multi-millionaire’s yacht
• What is Orbán up to? Full-court press against the LGBTQ community?
• The Hungarian foreign minister lashes out
• Looking for the real Saint Stephen
• MÁRTON KOZÁK AND BÁLINT MAGYAR: “IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE SYSTEM . . .” (Part II)
• Márton Kozák and Bálint Magyar: “If you don’t like the system . . .”
• The Orbán government’s strange zero tolerance of anti-Semitism
• From ruins to tourist attractions: Hungarian government projects
• Hungary’s shameful behavior during the Belarus crisis
• The government-financed Danube Institute and its director, John O’Sullivan
• Unfounded myths from the early years of Hungarian democracy
• Viktor Orbán on a military shopping spree
• The Orbán government weighs how to respond to the Belarusian revolt
• Tempest in a teapot or more? The case of Göd
• There is nothing new under the sun: political progression of the Hungarian far right
• Two views on justice after Orbán
• Unplanned, unwelcome summer break
• Attila Vidnyánszky can now recast the future of the Hungarian dramatic arts
• József Papp: The Dutch with no hatred toward Hungarians
• MSZP is pursuing the Mátra Power Plant corruption case
• Ambassadorial tussle in Budapest: U.S. versus China
• Independent journalism in Hungary: another postmortem
• Mária Schmidt might be behind the destruction of Index
• The Index affair is a setback for Viktor Orbán in Europe
• Orbán’s high school pal, who taught him the little history he knows, is worried about his profession
• Another English-language propaganda news site from Budapest
• Viktor Orbán and his enemies, the “libernyákok”
• The takeover of Index and the state of media freedom in Hungary
• The European Parliament is not impressed
• The EU may finally be standing up to Viktor Orbán
• After the summit: Winners and losers
• For Mark Rutte, Orbán was just background noise
• Orbán’s impromptu press conference and his 1988 encounter with the communist police
• Orbán’s opening gambit
• Under the threat of Orbán’s veto: Ahead of the European Summit
• What should be done? Miklós Haraszti’s suggestions to the opposition
• Communism is no more, but Orbán is still fighting his old enemies
• The “small but complex universe” that exists in László Kövér’s mind
• A rough road ahead for the new president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• The attempt to bury the case of the pedophile diplomat almost succeeded
• Another Kásler attempt at rewriting early Hungarian history
• Viktor Orbán resorts to blackmail to defend his turf
• Viktor Orbán offers the EU a deal: Give me the money and keep your mouth shut
• Pop music, a powerful tool of nationalist indoctrination
• The Fidesz media rails against Biden, the Democratic Party, and Blacks
• A fractious election at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Helping Orbán spin his Friday morning tales
• The grandest fireworks of Europe
• Fidesz’s way of handling the economic crisis: spend more on unprofitable sports facilities
• Hal Brands: Hungary’s Orbán uses COVID-19 crisis for another power grab
• Hungary, the ventilator superpower
• The Puskás Academy FC will compete in the Europa League: how and at what cost?
• Demons at work: The Assembly of Faith from the inside
• Hungary’s very own Elmer Gantry?
• György Szabados, the “creator” of early Hungarian history
• The birth of a new Hungarian past: The history textbooks arrive
• Teaching János Arany’s “Bards of Wales” to sixth graders
• The fate of Index remains up in the air
• Index, the largest independent internet news site in Hungary, is in danger
• Nationalism “in the spirit of the 21st century”: New Hungarian textbooks
• A burgeoning war against mainstream Hungarian historians
• The European Court of Justice rules in favor of the NGOs
• Hungarian government media on the upcoming U.S. election
• How did Viktor Orbán become prime minister in 1998?
• Marcel Haenen: “My name is Viktor Orbán, I will become the next prime minister of Hungary”
• Viktor Orbán and a hundred years of solitude
• The Athina Németh case is a gift to Miklós Kásler and the Orbán government
• Igor Matovič’s visit to Budapest
• A trip Viktor Orbán doesn’t want to remember
• April 5, 2004: Fidesz, and Attila Körömi, at a turning point
• Whither Momentum? A new board member with a Fidesz past
• Viktor Orbán’s belligerent, apocalyptic speech against neighbors and allies
• Hungarians will be asked about the “Second Soros Plan” to keep them perpetually indebted
• The strange timing of Viktor Orbán’s trip to Minsk
• Fidesz in 1988
• Orbán’s national consultations and Hitler’s referendums
• Corruption has a long history in Hungary
• Orbán’s plans unchanged: More hotels and more stadiums
• Economic data is held close to the chest by the Orbán government
• Csaba Molnár, MEP: Apologize to Viktor Orbán?
• Viktor Orbán: football as art, a story of brilliant intuitions and inspirations
• Demonstrations during the state of emergency in Hungary
• Next generation EU: VDL’s recovery fund
• Nostalgia for the Kádár era and the failure of Hungarian democracy
• Orbán’s dream: a permanent state of emergency
• Soltvadkert, the plastic capital of Hungary
• Miklós Kásler under fire, but the likely culprit is Viktor Orbán
• Not even COVID-19 can stop the construction of sports facilities in Hungary
• What happened in 1989-1990? Not much, say Fidesz ideologues
• COVID-19: The East-West divide
• No more transit zones, now asylum seekers will have to apply abroad
• The Orbán government ignores EU rulings and recommendations
• The Hungarian parliament in warp speed
• Georg Paul Hefty on the Szeklers’ claim of nationhood
• The Karácsony program: The “greening” of Budapest
• Orbán strikes out against enemies, foreign and domestic
• Orbán lashes out: minorities should be put in their place
• Imre Vörös: “Why Europe shouldn’t be fooled by Judit Varga”
• In preparation for tomorrow’s EP debate on Hungary
• Judit Varga’s encounter with the president of the European Union
• Has Hungary vanquished COVID-19? Two experts are cautiously optimistic
• The metamorphoses of Věra Jourová
• 444: George Soros: The man who would have killed his mother
• Cracks in the Fidesz armor
• Freedom House: Nations in Transit 2020
• BMW suspends construction of a plant in Debrecen
• Fidesz-KDNP’s battle against women opposition members
• Magyar Nemzet: Female opposition politicians are wenches who exhibit irrational hatred
• Democratic Fidesz besieged by “communists” from bygone times
• Remembering the Viktor Orbán and László Kövér of 30 years ago
• Ferenc Laczó: From Dés to New York–Journey of a Survivor and Historian of the Holocaust (Part 2)
• László Rajk’s widow responds to Mária Schmidt
• Ferenc Laczó: From Dés to New York–Journey of a Survivor and Historian of the Holocaust (Part 1)
• László Kövér calls members of the opposition compradors in the pay of the Jewish world elite
• The Sikorski letter to Deutsch; Schmidt embraces alternative facts
• Observer: Through the smoke and din of the war on the virus-economic crisis in Hungary
• Virulent attacks on a member of the Hungarian opposition
• The Hungarian government’s primitive attack on Donald Tusk
• While others fail, Hungary will win
• Hungarians evaluate the Orbán government’s performance in the past decade
• Kim Lane Scheppele and Gábor Halmai: Don’t be fooled by Autocrats! Why Hungary’s emergency violates the rule of law
• Civico Europa: By surrendering to autocracy in the fight against COVID-19, Hungary poisons European ideals
• Orbán is revising his cherished idea of a work-based society
• Orbán’s governance by decree: “nationalization” of a publicly traded company
• One of Viktor Orbán’s first Enabling Act decrees was issued yesterday
• The Orbán government is under fire in the European Parliament
• Chaos and cynicism on the COVID-19 front in Hungary
• Miklós Kásler’s housecleaning hits a nerve in certain Fidesz circles
• Mária Vásárhelyi remembers Fidesz’s political games during the H1N1 pandemic of 2009
• Miklós Kásler’s incompetence is coupled with self-importance and over-confidence
• “Distance learning” in Hungary between 1943 and 1945
• Why are Hungarian authorities loath to test for COVID-19?
• Fidesz’s political games during the pandemic
• Fifteen Hungarian economists speak out about Orbán’s stimulus package
• Serious questions about Orbán’s action plan–Part II
• Serious questions about Orbán’s action plan–Part I
• László Palkovics, Orbán’s man at the helm, announces the government’s economic stimulus plan
• Viktor Orbán’s response to the economic crisis falls far short
• Anon: Why Viktor Orbán has no time to deal with criticism
• Orbán’s “incomprehensibly” large stimulus package turns out to be rather slim
• Plenty of noise on the western front, but will action follow?
• U.S. Helsinki Commission’s press release on the Hungarian government’s emergency law
• Travel through space and time, while “sheltering in place”
• Decrees that have nothing to do with the coronavirus pandemic
• Foreign reactions to Orbán’s “enabling law”
• Will the law just enacted bring “koronadiktatúra” to Hungary?
• Cecília Müller, Hungary’s chief medical officer
• Some claim school never will be the same after the coronavirus pandemic
• Orbán’s latest emergency law is a step backward on social distancing
• Rationale for the law “On Protecting against the Coronavirus”
• Orbán government bans the export of hydroxychloroquine sulfate
• Letting people die vs. letting the economy die: thankfully, a false choice
• Hungary will handle the economic crisis “on the cheap”
• Orbán’s first attempt didn’t pan out, but he will most likely succeed the next time
• Legal scholars and opposition politicians condemn Orbán’s “Enabling Act”
• Kim Lane Scheppele: Orbán’s Emergency
• Translation of draft law “On Protecting Against the Coronavirus”
• Difficulties foreign residents face returning to Hungary
• Hungarian scientists embark on developing a treatment for the coronavirus
• The Orbán government’s initial reaction to the economic crisis
• COVID-19 arrives in Hungary: A family story
• Péter Ákos Bod on “What one cannot see ahead of time and what one can”
• Three takes on Viktor Orbán’s handling of the pandemic
• Will the pandemic bring innovation to Hungarian education?
• Viktor Orbán changes course in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic
• How do autocrats handle a crisis? Not well–look at Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s stark view of the country’s near-term economic future
• “Pride, the never failing vice of fools”–Alexander Pope
• The Orbán regime and women’s rights
• The European Commission’s Country Report on Hungary 2020
• ATV “independent” anchor’s foundation receives millions from the government
• The continuing labor shortage in Hungary
• EU at last moves on CEU, but it’s too little too late
• The coronavirus has made its appearance in Hungary
• The Slovak election: From Budapest, it looks like a double earthquake
• History, viewed through the lens of the present, continues to divide left and right
• Remembering Horthy’s election as Hungary’s governor, March 1, 1920
• Viktor Orbán’s old Slovenian friend Janez Janša is back: The question is for how long
• Parochial school teachers speak out and get a tongue-lashing
• Töhötöm Nagy: Jesuit, Freemason, state security agent
• There is nothing new about Viktor Orbán’s mafioso tactics
• Cleansing of Jobbik–Will the party survive it?
• Kövér and Orbán: future politicians masquerading as law students
• Final nudge
• MSZP in turmoil: Two district mayors have deserted the party
• A very crude, cumbersome alternative to PayPal
• Imre Vejkey (KDNP): “Something stinks in Strasbourg”
• Viktor Orbán at the failed EU budget negotiations
• The inglorious beginnings of the Hungarian Royal Army
• Militarization of Hungarian society
• A reminder
• Orbán’s gambit for the political support of the military
• Two takes on Viktor Orbán’s speech
• Orbán: “A liberal is a commie with a college education”
• A historical debate on a controversial topic: Germans and Russians in Budapest, 1944-1945
• The far right wants to rewrite history and close Hungary to foreign influences
• The result of Orbán’s anti-Roma incitement: Neo-Nazi groups on the march
• Another attempt to capture the younger generation: Indoctrination camps
• Please support Hungarian Spectrum
• Orbán’s adventures in Slovenia and North Macedonia
• Viktor Orbán in Berlin
• A couple of footnotes to the controversy over the national curriculum
• The Day of Honor: neo-Nazi demonstrators celebrate “defenders of European civilization”
• Zoltán Pokorni stands up for historical truth, shaken by his own family history
• Orbán and his friends at the National Conservatism Conference in Rome
• Learning from the American far right? The MAG movement
• Hungary turns its back on Europe, 2010-2019
• March 30, 1988, the birthday of Fidesz, in the news
• The Orbán regime begins educating its children in earnest
• Gyergyóditró is still in turmoil over the two Sri Lankan bakers
• A generous scholarship is seen as driving a wedge in the liberal literary community
• The latest posturing: Fidesz outrage against discrimination, racism, and hate
• Rebellion in Gyergyóditró: The exclusiveness of Szekler nationalism
• The migrants are coming, the migrants are coming!
• A recent socialist corruption case in Kispest
• Another blow for Orbán: Salvini’s plans were dashed in Emilia-Romagna
• Győr is saved: Orbán’s choice won the election handily
• Sex video or not, Orbán wanted Borkai in Győr
• Will Árpád Habony’s anti-Roma campaign revive Fidesz’s public appeal?
• Viktor Orbán entrusts Hungarian culture to the far right
• Doing business with a Russian company: The sad story of the Budapest metro cars
• A propaganda stunt: Attack on Gypsies, lawyers, and prisoners
• Eroding Fidesz support in the countryside
• The spy in the room: KDNP’s sole MEP remains in EPP
• Wrapping up: Fidesz itself wrote the “absurd law” on prisoners’ compensation
• In Hungary it is Viktor Orbán who has the final word on the law
• EPP is no longer willing to shield Viktor Orbán
• Article 7 under scrutiny in the European Parliament
• A Fidesz defeat in Győr’s mayoral election would be a serious blow
• Fidesz is not risking a defeat in the Dunaújváros electoral district
• Historical objectivity versus nationalist impulses
• The Orbán-Mészáros-Tiborcz business enterprise
• Viktor Orbán on European politics
• Viktor Orbán’s international press conference in Budapest
• Happy New Year by Charles Gati
• Anti-Semitic? Racist? Never mind! Beatrix Siklósi, the new head of Kossuth Rádió, is unstoppable
• Viktor Orbán is buying young voters for 2022
• Péter Boross on how to win the 2022 election: By suppressing universities and cultural institutions
• Is Ferenc Gyurcsány jumping the gun by talking about the 2022 national election?
• Fidesz at a crossroads
• Fidesz is trying to save EPP from extinction
• Happy New Year to all the readers of Hungarian Spectrum
• On the Trail of Stars: New research techniques in Orbánland
• How to teach patriotism to Hungarian school children
• Péter Erdő, primate of Hungary: The church is not a philanthropic organization
• Lignite: killing people just for profit by András Lukács of Clean Air Action Group
• The Green movement: a conspiracy against Orbán’s Hungary
• Generous annuities for Hungarian Olympic champions and their coaches
• Wishing everybody a very happy holiday season
• Taking stock: What should Fidesz do to improve its image at home?
• Orbán is buying a white elephant from his stróman Mészáros
• Whither Fidesz? An interview with István Stumpf
• “Nationalization” of private infertility clinics
• Orbán’s latest plan to counter low fertility and boost birthrates
• A move against the independent judiciary?
• A potpourri of recent news from Hungary
• Horrendous murders of wives and children by the men of the house
• Does Viktor Orbán really believe what he is saying?
• Throwing good money after bad: state football, basketball, and handball academies at home and abroad
• Orbán’s invitation to join his “new Central Europe” is unlikely to find takers in Romania
• Cleaning the closets: new city administrations find lots of skeletons
• Free papers in Budapest: should they be politically balanced?
• Zoltán Kovács’s tweet storm didn’t quite work out
• A Fidesz corruption case even Viktor Orbán admitted
• Viktor Orbán is in a quandary–the result is confusion and hesitancy
• The New Saint John Hospital Christmas wish list
• Using a sexual harassment case for political purposes: Government takeover of independent theaters
• Fidesz’s first stab at hamstringing the opposition in the 2022 national election
• Orbán is ready to blame the West and the U.S.S.R., but never Putin’s Russia
• Ambassador David Cornstein welcomes Americans living in Budapest, but only without weapons and recording devices
• Hungary plans to send an astronaut into space in 2024 with Russian help
• The rebirth of irredentism with the assistance of the Orbán government
• High-ranking Fidesz leader’s anti-Semitic comments shake the Hungarian Jewish community
• Alexander Faludy: Philip de László at the Hungarian National Gallery
• International Conference on Christian persecution in Budapest
• The day of thanksgiving
• Sajtóklub’s messages are not an aberration but part and parcel of the Orbán regime’s nationalism
• The mendacity of the Orbán regime: The latest falsehood about George Soros
• The legacy of the Orbán era: anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia
• Fidesz and “Our Homeland” join forces in an anti-Semitic campaign against “nation haters”
• Debate on sex education in Poland and Hungary
• Orbán’s “great diplomatic victory” and a possible exit from EPP
• Caving in to Orbán’s demand for Várhelyi’s portfolio was a suicidal step by VDL
• Nationalist madness in Orbán’s Hungary
• “We are of the same blood,” the prelude to virulent anti-Semitic comments
• “The Puskás Stadion is the past, present, and future of the Hungarian nation”
• How long will the EU finance Viktor Orbán’s illiberal state?
• Remembering Horthy, who rode into “sinful” Budapest 100 years ago, “with deference and homage”
• Lots of noise about football, but in the background Fidesz is trying to hamstring municipalities
• Olivér Várhelyi failed to convince but gets a second chance
• As the public Trump impeachment hearings get underway, Hungary retreats on Ukraine
• The newly insecure pro-government media in Hungary
• Miklós Haraszti: How the spirit of 1989 sustains the Hungarian opposition’s fight against Viktor Orbán
• Opposition gains everywhere; stunning results in Jászberény
• Momentum takes a courageous step by working with other liberal parties across borders
• Ahead of Olivér Várhelyi’s hearing in the EP committee on foreign affairs
• What did Erdoğan and his “good friend” Viktor Orbán talk about today?
• Zsolt Borkai is gone; more shoes may drop
• László Kövér’s “intellectual terrorists” all happened to be Jewish
• Kövér rails against “bolshevism”
• Electoral fraud in Hungary: The cases of Komló and Jászberény
• Another business favor to Russia at the expense of a Hungarian company
• Another power outage
• Another Putin visit to Budapest, Erdoğan to follow soon
• A good possibility of a rearrangement of the opposition forces in the next couple of years
• An article by Patrick Kingsley and Benjamin Novak in the New York Times rattles the Orbán regime
• Having knee replacement surgery in the U.S. and Hungary
• True Christians are becoming fed up with Orbán’s version of Christian liberty
• László Kövér thinks that the system of checks and balances is “crap”
• The extreme right is on the rise again in Hungary
• Orbán’s “peacock dance” will never end; now it is about Turkey and Syria
• Hungary’s role in the possible impeachment of Donald Trump
• Orbán, the pocket dictator, wants to be a partner of the big boys
• A new free Budapest newspaper, Pesti Hírlap
• Viktor Orbán in the service of Recep Erdoğan
• Incriminating documents may be disappearing as mayoral transitions are delayed
• With a united opposition, the election results were practically preordained
• Finding a scapegoat: “foreign liberals and communist agents” planning to overthrow the Orbán government
• While the EU condemns Turkish aggression, Orbán visits the Turkish-led Turkic Council
• New brooms sweep clean: Mayors promise to flush out earlier corruption cases
• Fidesz suffered a major defeat in today’s municipal elections
• The campaign is still going strong
• Fidesz in panic mode: the Borkai scandal is taking its toll
• Hungary stands by Turkey; Orbán might lose an enlargement commissioner
• The fish rots from the head, but everyone around Orbán stinks
• We’re back!
• Trying to recover
• Hungarian journalism not at its best
• The “Devil’s Advocate” exposes the corrupt Orbán regime
• Is Hungary a big player in the Brexit negotiations? Not likely
• Building bridges to the EU: Opposition mayors visit Brussels
• Orbán’s Balkans hopes may be dashed, after all
• If Fidesz can’t win honestly, there are always dirty tricks
• Viktor Orbán’s new nominee has quite a reputation in Brussels
• In times of trouble Viktor Orbán seeks loyalty
• Orbán sets conditions for a rapprochement with Brussels: Keep your nose out of here
• Climate strike in Budapest: “What do we want? Climate protection! When do we want it? Now!”
• Another look at the election campaign in Budapest
• Trócsányi failed even before he started
• All eyes on Ukraine, from Washington to Budapest
• The “perfectly balanced” Hungarian media and climate change
• Viktor Orbán claims to be further to the right than the post-fascist Giorgia Meloni
• To debate or not to debate: The Tarlós-Karácsony electoral struggle for Budapest
• Budapest municipal election campaign is going full blast
• In memoriam: László Rajk (1949-2019)
• László Kövér, the soothsayer and Christian crusader
• László Kövér, the unvarnished voice of Fidesz
• Nationalist Hungary is becoming “international”
• Justice Minister Judit Varga arrived in Brussels to defend Hungarian democracy
• Orbán, the new Jesus, delivers his Sermon on the Mount
• Alexander Faludy: The Photographer at Sixteen, by George Szirtes
• Will Trócsányi be Orbán’s proxy in the European Commission?
• How good are the Hungarian universities?
• Ferenc Laczó: “Authentic and Acceptable”–On a certain vision of Jewish Fates in Orbán’s Hungary
• An ill-conceived nomination: László Trócsányi as commissioner of enlargement
• A sitcom that got under the skin of the Hungarian right
• András Dezső’s encounter with Natalie Contessa af Sandeberg
• Hungarians are shaken by two familicide cases within 12 days
• Christianity and demographics: Two international conferences held in Budapest
• Professor Róbert Braun’s resignation letter from Corvinus University
• We have proof: Hungary is the most corrupt country in the EU
• The shipwrecked dreams of Fidesz in the European Parliament
• Another prize, another opportunity for the far right to spread its influence
• An “indispensable” national theater, with empty seats
• Arab doctors in Hungary who used to vote for Fidesz
• Making babies is one of the Orbán regime’s top priorities
• Mária Schmidt’s entire staff at 21st-Century Institute quits
• The Orbán government in a changing political climate
• Miklós Kásler, the “wacky” head of the National Cultural Fund
• Lívia Járóka, a Fidesz apologist at the expense of the Hungarian Roma
• Serbian-Hungarian lovefest is more than a tad suspicious
• The expanding domain of László Palkovics
• Should the EU entrust the Western Balkans to Orbán’s Hungary?
• Tensions in Fidesz on the local level
• One by one, historical events are rewritten by the Orbán regime
• Angela Merkel’s visit to Sopron–the press conference
• Angela Merkel’s visit to Sopron
• Another business failure: Viktor Orbán’s “Eastern Opening”
• The Pan-European Picnic: The beginning of the reunification of Germany
• Hungarian standard of living just reached the 2008 level–Not exactly a “wage explosion”
• A new enemy: The “Neo-Bolshevik” Greens and climate change
• American concerns over the International Investment Bank’s presence in Budapest: A timeline
• There is no “silly season” in the Fidesz media
• Just one example of the incredible viciousness of the regime of Viktor Orbán
• Péter Csunderlik on the Horthy regime’s portrayal of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
• Recent Hungarian opinion polls: Publicus, the odd man out
• Mysterious Hungarian plans for U.S.-Hungarian cooperation in Europe
• You cannot fool all the people all the time: U.S.-Hungarian relations
• The Orbán government’s efforts at improving U.S.-Hungarian relations
• Coca-Cola Magyarország confronts prejudice in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s forays into the Balkans
• A former counterintelligence agent will be Hungary’s representative to the International Investment Bank
• Seeking political asylum in Hungary: The Aleksei Torubarov case
• Orbán propagandist heads the new nationalized network of research institutes
• Viktor Orbán and Ursula von der Leyen meet for the first time
• The Orbán regime’s corruption revisited
• Viktor Orbán in a U.S. Department of Justice corruption investigation
• Do West European politicians hate Viktor Orbán or does he enjoy their “astounding” respect?
• Guest Post: The European Parliament must exclude its Fidesz members
• Viktor Orbán’s latest sermon at Băile Tușnad/Tusnádfürdő
• Outrages of the day: Institute of Oncology, József Tóbiás, and Zsolt Semjén
• Conditions in the National Institute of Oncology
• Zsolt Németh’s defense of Fidesz ideology and practice
• Hungarian left and right on Ursula von der Leyen
• Mihály Takaró in Slovakia: far-right drivel about Hungarian uniqueness
• Hungary’s port in Trieste: an abandoned oil refinery
• Deputy central bank chairman Júlia Király’s personal story of the 2008 Hungarian financial crisis
• UN Special Rapporteur’s report on human rights of migrants in Hungary
• The latest attempt to lift the Roma community out of abject poverty
• Orbán must have seen red: the EU wants to sustain open, democratic, and inclusive societies
• Did Fidesz MEPs vote for von der Leyen?
• Candidates for the job of European prosecutor: Laura Codruţa-Kövesi and Jean-François Bohnert
• Will Viktor Orbán one day become King Matthias?
• Fidesz now has another way to rig elections: the sale of T-Systems to 4iG
• Viktor Orbán’s version of the nomination of Ursula von der Leyen
• Observer: László Bige’s chemical empire attacked by the Orbán mafia state
• The Fourth of July bash in Budapest, compliments of the fawning U.S. ambassador
• The dilemma Momentum’s two rookie MEPs face
• “Scholarships” offered to extol the Hungarian government’s virtues on the Internet
• Hungary’s macho prime minister has nominated a woman to become minister of justice
• The first days of the Hungarian members of the European Parliament
• HVG got confused with all those Mihály and Károly Takarós
• Rejecting Weber and Timmermans may have been a mistake
• Disinformation withdrawn: It wasn’t the V4 that proposed the new EU leader
• After three long days, the horsetrading is over
• Closing the door on an alternative education
• Another flip flop: Orbán now stands behind Manfred Weber
• Gergely Karácsony’s success and the collapse of MSZP
• Why does Fidesz have such a soft spot for Malta?
• Strange ways of Hungarian nationalism
• Today’s headlines: Karácsony wins the Budapest primary; corruption flourishes in Hungary
• Budapest political primary turned out to be a success
• Real Pearl Foundation: Teaching about fake news
• What is plebiscitary leader democracy? Apparently, the Orbán regime
• Partners in crime: Hungarian agricultural grants in Romania
• A new genetic study of Ob-Ugrian-Hungarian connections
• Sándor Kerekes: Only in Hungary, you say: The Moral Panic Button
• Visegrád 4 in search of a powerful post in the European Union
• Ready-made recipe for an aspiring autocrat
• Parking as a political issue
• The “revolutionary” Viktor Orbán in 1989
• EPP’s three wise men and those who are ready to meet them
• Signature drive for Hungary to join the new European Prosecutor’s Office
• Government media on the Budapest primary
• Mária Schmidt’s latest. Ignorance is not bliss
• Hope for the future, in both Hungary and the European Union
• How does one create a national hero? The case of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky
• Revisionist poster causes quite a stir among Hungary’s neighbors
• Romanian-Hungarian ethnic clash at a military cemetery
• Whither MSZP?
• Olga Kálmán, former ATV reporter, is DK’s mayoral candidate in Budapest
• Learning the ropes: Momentum and DK on the campaign trail
• Orbán’s latest ploy on how to be a pivotal player in Europe
• Pope Francis in Transylvania
• Orbán moves against historical research: The first victim is the 56-Institute
• Disaster on the Danube
• What will the endgame be? Viktor Orbán versus the Academy
• A few scraps are thrown to EPP to see how hungry they are
• Fidesz is trying to explain away its poor report card
• Hungarian MEPs are heading to Brussels
• Viktor Orbán at sea–Where will he land?
• After the votes were counted
• A somewhat humbled Viktor Orbán
• Electoral fraud in Hungary
• Hungarians are confused about Orbán’s political system
• Heinrich Pecina’s role in the elimination of the Hungarian independent media
• Council of Europe’s Report: migrant children in Hungary
• Government media spin on Strache
• Clerical pedophilia has become a political issue in Poland
• Viktor Orbán, the role model for would-be dictators: The case of Heinz-Christian Strache
• The United States, Hungary, and the Black Sea offshore gas reserve
• Peacock dance abroad, homophobia at home
• “Much Ado about Nothing”: Orbán’s White House visit
• Charles Gati: Two adventurers in the White House
• An “inspirational” meeting between Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán
• V4NA, Hungary’s “independent” news agency, on the march
• A search for her ancestors leads writer Margaret McMullan to Pécs
• New plans for a “national” literature
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Letter to Donald Trump
• The facilitators of Orbán’s trip to Washington
• Matteo Salvini and the lure of Italian fascism
• Viktor Orbán is abandoning his “Christian Democratic” past
• Gábor Bojár: My Europe
• A revealing interview with Viktor Orbán
• Orbán will meet Trump despite strained U.S.-Hungarian relations
• Ways and means of Hungarian healthcare: Two stories
• Orbán’s Hungary, Netanyahu’s Israel, and the Palestinian question
• Has Orbán lost his battle with the European Union?
• Orbán is chafing to get out from under the thrall of the European Union
• MSZP’s unfortunate encounter with rats
• All politics is local and thus often distorted: The EP election
• Viktor Orbán’s enthusiasm for all things eastern, including dictatorships
• Mirror, mirror on the wall: The distorted Hungarian self-image
• European Union: The cash cow and the curse of migrants
• Government dominance in the Hungarian media market
• Soon enough, Hungarian judicial independence will exist only in history books
• What’s wrong with the West? Everything
• Revolutions devour their own children: The case of Tibor Navracsics
• The North Macedonian elections, George Soros, and Hungary
• Viktor Orbán won’t let go of the “spy case”
• Archbishop Péter Erdő on Viktor Orbán’s policies
• Hired bloggers in government service
• Ferenc Laczó: Holocaust Survivors, Hungarian regimes, and the European project
• The Notre Dame fire: the conspiracy theorists go to work, with propagandists sure to follow
• The Trianon Memorial: a monument to Hungarian revisionism
• A slice of Hungarian healthcare: The Medical Association
• Fidesz’s Századvég evaluates the performances of Juncker and Timmermans
• The racist Gershwins and the open-minded Hungarians: Porgy and Bess in Budapest
• Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, no matter what he says, is “not the safest country in Europe”
• Migrant debit cards: a tool of terrorism? Yes, so vote Fidesz
• A historical debate on the Allies’ responsibility for the Holocaust
• Another victim of the Orbán government: The ELI-ALPS Research Center
• László Palkovics caught at his own game
• Mátyás Eörsi: The future of European democracy
• Viktor Orbán has declared war on the European Union
• Listen to Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra play Bartók
• Viktor Orbán: Biding his time, hedging his bets
• Orbán’s revisionist history: Hungary on the brink of bankruptcy, 2010
• World Congress of Families in Verona: “An international alliance united in hate”
• In focus: the Hungarian Catholic Church and pedophilia
• Mária Schmidt: Frontal attack on Germans and Germany
• The Hungarian media quickly decided on the guilt of an alleged terrorist
• Orbán’s African venture suffers an unexpected setback
• Journalism à la Fidesz: The case of Pesti Srácok
• Remembering the Hungarian Soviet Republic
• A Warsaw-Budapest-Rome Axis?
• Giving Hungarian taxpayer money to churches is a “good investment”
• Wagging fingers at Orbán leads nowhere. The anti-EU campaign continues
• Viktor Orbán, the misunderstood martyr, doesn’t take the three wise men too seriously
• Fidesz propaganda continues unabated, while Orbán is shunned at EU summit
• Viktor Orbán is in a bind after the suspension
• Fidesz suspended but, according to Orbán, that is just more fake news
• The Orbán regime’s generous support of its clientele
• The final days of Viktor Orbán’s cat and mouse game
• The modern János Hunyadi and repercussions from Christchurch
• Viktor Orbán and the Great Replacement Theory
• A wolf in sheep’s clothing and an opposition manifesto
• Honoring anti-Semitic literati on the national holiday
• Media reaction to the Weber-Orbán encounter
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s letter to the members of the European Parliament
• Benedek Jávor: Open letter to Manfred Weber
• Viktor Orbán and Emmanuel Macron’s manifesto
• Hungarians are perplexed: Will EPP cave and make a deal with Orbán?
• László Kövér on “hidden power” and “identity protection”
• EPP, Fidesz, and the EP elections
• Jump or be pushed? Orbán and the EPP
• Fidesz: Trouble at home, trouble abroad
• Orbán received an ultimatum, which so far he is ignoring
• The tide is turning against Orbán in the European People’s Party
• The Russian-inspired International Investment Bank moves to Budapest
• Viktor Orbán’s latest ruse–Will anyone fall for it?
• Viktor Orbán under fire: Patience is running out
• Does Péter Márki-Zay’s new movement pose a threat to Fidesz?
• Orbán and his central banker paint a bright Hungarian economic future
• A new politician on the horizon: Klára Dobrev, Ferenc Gyurcsány’s wife
• Last call
• The Petőfi Literary Museum has a new director-general
• Péter Tölgyessy on the “most western outpost” of China
• Recruiting immigrants in Venezuela
• Another storm in the EPP teacup?
• The failure of foreign language teaching in Hungary
• Government-generated anti-EU propaganda in Hungary
• The Hungarian government on a rampage against the European Commission
• A reminder
• Orbán goes to Jerusalem
• A closer look at Orbán’s family package
• Frans Timmermans in Budapest
• Family corruption and Orbán’s resistance to EU control
• Viktor Orbán reflects on the Pompeo visit; the U.S. embassy will be headed by a Russia expert
• The United States is retaking East-Central Europe
• Some thoughts after Pompeo’s visit to Hungary and Slovakia
• I’m asking for your help
• I believe Mike Pompeo learned a thing or two in Budapest
• Orbán tries to exude confidence, but his fear is palpable
• Telling the truth comes at a price in Orbán’s Hungary
• Unwarranted government media enthusiasm over V4-Merkel meeting
• Is Orbán going too far? There are signs that he is
• The agony of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Freedom House: Hungary is no longer considered to be a free country
• Viktor Orbán is feeling his oats
• István Szent-Iványi: Quo vadis Hungaria? A book review
• Fidesz’s deadly embrace–Is its next victim Jobbik?
• Another round of peacock dances, this time with the Americans
• Paks II Power Plant, a millstone around Viktor Orbán’s neck
• The Audi strike in Győr may serve as a model for others
• Time to acknowledge failure: U.S. policy toward the Orbán government
• “Observer”: Taking a second look at wages since 2010
• Remembering Endre Ady (1877-1919)
• Hungary’s troubled relations with the European Union
• Dilemmas facing the Hungarian opposition
• The Orbán government’s “Hungary Helps” program for persecuted Christians
• Progress report on the ice storm
• Ice storm
• Endless lies on every channel. This time the topic is homosexuality
• Is Viktor Orbán’s pillaging of the EU coming to an end?
• Revealing answers from the chief of Hungary’s “fake news factory”
• Nothing can shake Hungarian-Russian friendship when it comes to Ukraine
• The genesis of Orbán’s anti-Soros campaign
• The fall of Lajos Simicska and his fears for his life
• Jesus the Parthian prince and other nonsense circulating in Orbán’s Hungary
• Conservative revolt against falsification of recent Hungarian history by the Fidesz far right
• Conference on media, politics, and power in Russia and Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s rare press conference
• A seemingly confident Orbán government may underestimate the mood of the country
• Another fugitive from justice has most likely found refuge in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán settling in at his office in the Castle District
• Reaction to the call for a joint opposition party list for the EP election
• Dissatisfaction with the Orbán regime is gaining momentum
• Béla Lipták’s letter to the New York Times
• A preface, from 2012, to today’s post
• Will Orbán retreat on two key issues: CEU and the House of Fates?
• Viktor Orbán’s jaunt to Brazil, seeking friendship with Jair Bolsonaro
• HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU
• Viktor Orbán’s Christmas present to the Catholic and Reformed churches
• In place of Imre Nagy, a memorial for the victims of red terror
• Viktor Orbán is moving to the Castle District
• H. David Baer: Hungary’s New Church Law Is Worse than the First
• The storm created over calling the Orbán regime what it is–A fascist state
• Fidesz and the “neo-bolshevik” opposition
• Holiday Greetings
• A foreign policy debate: Zsolt Németh v. István Szent-Iványi
• Bishop Miklós Beer, the odd man out in the Hungarian Catholic Church
• Orbán’s dilemma: Immigration or labor shortage
• President Áder signed the “slave law” and the trade unions are ready
• Judit Csernyánszki’s interview with Judith Sargentini
• Hungarian demonstrations spread, Manfred Weber erases his red line
• How long can Viktor Orbán ignore the uprising against his rule?
• The fourth day of the revolt against the Orbán regime
• Orbán in Brussels
• Fidesz reaction to the demonstrations
• The struggle continues
• Will Budapest follow Paris?
• Money flows freely from Hungary to football facilities in the neighboring countries
• The government party was on the verge of using force against the opposition
• The Orbán government remembers Prime Minister József Antall
• It’s a beginning: trade unions on the move
• Viktor Orbán, the neo-Bolshevik?
• Attacks on all who dare stand up against the Orbán regime
• Viktor Orbán’s one-party state and its media
• Ambassador David Cornstein and fate of Central European University
• Ideas that refuse to die: Christian-national ideology of the Horthy era
• The dog ate my homework
• Outrage over the Orbán government’s “slave law”
• Hungarian reactions to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
• Recruiting student informers against disloyal professors
• In memoriam: Randolph L. Braham (1922-2018)
• Viktor Orbán, Macedonia, and the European Parliament
• Russian-Hungarian friendship is unshakable: The case of the arms dealers
• Thanksgiving 2018
• Orbán’s favorite project, Paks II, is faltering
• The Orbán version of Macedonian reality
• The extreme right’s struggle for Hungary’s past
• Viktor Orbán stands by his corrupt friends–The case of Romania
• Remembering SZDSZ
• Further thoughts on the Gruevski affair
• Pro-Russian Nikola Gruevski is seeking political asylum in Hungary
• Information strike at ELTE for gender studies
• KOPINT-TÁRKI’S REPORT ON SOCIETY 2018–EDUCATION
• KOPINT-TÁRKI’S REPORT ON SOCIETY 2018–ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Kopint-Tárki’s Report on Society 2018–Emigration
• The CEU saga continues
• Criminal “investigation” in Hungary: the Tiborcz-Orbán case
• Fidesz votes for Manfred Weber and signs on to “liberal democracy”
• Viktor Orbán at the First Chinese International Import Expo in Shanghai
• Hungarian coverage of today’s U.S. election
• National consultation on families and children
• EPP’s appeasement of Viktor Orbán
• Hungarian Spectrum Extra: PBS on the Orbán regime
• A debate about the nature of the Holocaust
• Frightening prospects of a new army law
• Economic troubles ahead, and for now there are no answers
• Viktor Orbán’s latest historical idol, the controversial wartime prime minister István Tisza
• Ákos Hadházy: Earlier, Soviet tanks sustained a dictatorship, now EU money does
• Fidesz’s latest victim: Márta Demeter of LMP
• The Hungarian right’s attack on bogus “gender ideology”
• Reinforcement of the southern borders because of nonexistent migratory pressure
• Assistant Secretary Wess Mitchell on U.S. foreign policy in East-Central Europe
• Viktor Orbán’s latest gambit with Central European University
• Hungary’s recent encounters with Japan and the Czech Republic
• On the anniversary of the 1956 October Revolution
• Another institute to study the origins of Hungarians
• A new Fidesz campaign, this time targeting EU voters
• The latest victim is the great Hungarian poet, Endre Ady (1877-1919)
• Rounding up the homeless in Hungary
• Not even hand-stitched bespoke tailoring can help in Orbán’s case
• The Hungarian prosecutor’s office investigates
• No government housing assistance for the childless
• Viktor Orbán is not deterred–a private plane trip to London via Moscow
• Dividing Europe into cosmopolites and hicks?
• Whitewashing an anti-Semitic murderer
• Viktor Orbán upgrades the Hungarian military and gets a perk
• The Orbán government in the swirl of world politics
• Freemasonry is hated and feared by the Orbán regime
• History turned upside-down: the gallant times of the janissaries
• Hungary and Turkey: a history of cooperation in preserving relics and honoring 17th-century heroes
• Another leap in the dark: “privatization” of Hungarian universities
• After LMP’s implosion, it’s now Jobbik’s turn to self-destruct
• Who is a Hungarian? Viktor Orbán will tell us
• Chaos and outrage in Hungary over the firing of a surgeon
• Frontal attack on culture and science
• Hungary’s new law restricting freedom of assembly
• News of the day: Szél leaves LMP and Orbán confirms years of corruption
• Disillusioned Fidesz supporters: The case of Rudolf Tőkés
• The Orbán regime silences criticism
• Orbán on the warpath: “What goes around comes around”
• From Washington to Tiszavasvár
• What is Hungary after in Ukraine?
• Corruption at the very top: Orbán’s use of a businessman’s jet
• The unholy alliance between the Orbán government and Slomó Köves of Chabad
• A new propaganda campaign, this time against the European Parliament
• Bernadett Szél at a crossroads
• The European Union is becoming tougher
• Viktor Orbán’s “enormous victory” in Salzburg?
• After Strasbourg the next stop was Moscow
• Angela Merkel on the march to conquer Europe; Orbán is first victim–so claims Mária Schmidt
• Reactions to Gyurcsány’s call for “national resistance”
• Alexander Faludy: Laughter in the Face of Absurdity
• Fidesz and women’s issues in the European Parliament
• Viktor Orbán faces the public after Strasbourg
• Viktor Orbán’s miscalculation
• Questions, questions–What is Orbán up to?
• Viktor Orbán in Strasbourg
• “Oops, it went viral”– Johanna Laakso’s analysis of Orbán’s claim of Turkic origin of Hungarian
• Viktor Orbán’s encounter with a racist, anti-Semitic youth group from Belgium
• Viktor Orbán picks another fight, this time with the international Jewish community
• Viktor Orbán’s son Gáspár, a leader of a small religious community
• Getting closer: The latest developments on the Sargentini Report
• A likely defeat for Viktor Orbán in the European Parliament
• Origo and Magyar Idők on migrants and neo-Nazi demonstrations in Chemnitz
• When politics finds its way into science: Viktor Orbán and linguistics
• A disappointing national basic curriculum all around
• The state of emergency in the emergency room at Honvédkórház?
• TV comedies threaten the intellectual values of the nation
• U.S. Ambassador Cornstein arrived in an earthly paradise, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Three recent op-ed articles in Magyar Idők: Disinformation, hysteria, and ignorance
• The meeting of Viktor Orbán and “his hero,” Matteo Salvini
• The brilliant strategy of LMP’s Péter Ungár: defeat Viktor Orbán by agreeing with him
• The Orbán regime’s encounter with the late John McCain
• The 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in the Hungarian media
• Hungary as the “dynastic demesne” of the Orbán family
• Ráhel Orbán and the dirty diaper
• Where will it end? Bernadett Szél resigns her posts
• Saints and crosses: Past and present
• Irredentist Trianon monument and religious trappings of August 20
• What should we call the Orbán regime? According to some, fascism pure and simple
• Is the Orbán regime a “hybrid political system”?
• A new era in U.S.-Hungarian relations?
• Expanding abroad economically and politically: The case of Slovenia
• Viktor Orbán’s modern Savonarola hard at work
• How to ruin Hungarian municipalities and businesses: the Orbán recipe
• The flowering of pseudo-science in Orbán’s Hungary
• Government attack against hospitals and their leaders
• “Atlantic Resolve” in Hungary
• The Orbán regime feels threatened by gender studies
• Demographic realities in Hungary: Part of a worldwide trend
• Lajos Simicska’s contributions to Fidesz’s success
• Nationalism and Christian values in Hungarian kindergartens
• The dissemination of disinformation at Magyar Idők
• Beware of Hungarians bearing gifts–The Ukrainians are suspicious
• An anti-Semite’s attack on György Konrád
• A new call for Fidesz expulsion from EPP
• An attack on academic freedom with government assistance
• HírTV is back in the fold: Fidesz retakes the station
• Does Viktor Orbán want to be the Donald Trump of Europe?
• Viktor Orbán welcomes Steve Bannon’s efforts on behalf of the European far right
• Viktor Orbán on Russia, Ukraine, and illiberal Christian democracy
• Viktor Orbán at Tusványos: Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin
• Another day at Tusványos with the assistance of the so-called opposition
• An open argument between Fidesz loyalists on cultural policy
• European Union money for village tourism
• Modernization is out, Hungarian is in
• Trying to improve Hungary’s dismal cancer statistics
• History lesson for today’s patriots: The Battle of Belgrade
• Computer science? Child’s play. Let’s learn Latin instead
• LMP’s sharp shift to the right
• Hungary is a major political and economic player in Montenegro
• Viktor Orbán visits his good friend, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Helsinki through the eyes of the pro-government media
• Hungarian right’s racism: The French World Cup team that wasn’t really French
• A few tricks later, Hungarian legislators overwhelmingly vote themselves a raise
• Viktor Orbán considers Russia a threat to Europe
• What do Croatian and Hungarian football have in common? Nothing
• Hungarian Scouting Assocation is accused of anti-Roma prejudice
• A repulsive Fidesz attack on 1956 and Imre Nagy
• China is looking for new friends. Hungary might not be among them
• Hungary defends the homeland, defeats the West–1111 years ago
• Portrait of a modern party functionary: Katalin Novák
• About-face? NATO command center in Hungary?
• LMP’s moral superiority crumbles in front of our eyes
• An open clash of views: The Merkel-Orbán meeting
• On the road to a “patriotic” educational system, through history
• Plans to restrict freedom of assembly in Hungary
• Defending the “private lives” of politicians means hiding corruption
• Ambassador David Cornstein arrived in Budapest
• Jews and Jewry in Hungary in 2017
• Politics and football: From Brussels to Kazan
• Viktor Orbán plans to restore democracy in the European Union
• The latest Fidesz propaganda: The Soros fleet is on its way
• The Sargentini report sailed through the LIBE committee
• Unfurling the flag: A new right radical party is born
• László Gy. Tóth, a typical right-winger in the service of Viktor Orbán
• János Kornai: “Ideas do not apply for visas”
• Leaving in hordes: Emigration from Hungary
• The Fidesz media as a vehicle of intimidation
• Fidesz and Jobbik pass “Stop Soros” bill on World Refugee Day
• The “Stop Soros” bill revisited
• Viktor Orbán’s machinations in Macedonia
• The new chairman of MSZP calls Orbán’s system post-fascism
• Viktor Orbán sets out to destroy “the last stubborn fortress of left-liberal ideology”
• Association of Young Christians in the service of the Orbán government
• Criminalization of homelessness in a Christian country
• András Schiffer on politics
• The collapse of Hungarian vocational training
• Not even half a billion forints was enough enticement for Roma integration in a Hungarian village
• What shall I call you?
• A plug for Ágnes Kunhalmi to become chair of MSZP
• Does László Toroczkai’s departure open new avenues for Jobbik?
• The custodian of the survival of the Hungarian nation: Miklós Kásler
• Whither Jobbik?
• The seventh amendment: Further restrictions on individual freedom and the rule of law
• Magyar Idők’s handling of the National Day of Cohesion: Strange juxtaposion of views
• Violent crime in the not so safe white, Christian Hungary
• Orbán propaganda spreads to Slovenia and Macedonia
• Observer: Viktor Orbán’s 100 lies
• The road to Washington by way of Kiev. The Pompeo-Szijjártó meeting, May 30, 2018
• Viktor Orbán had to retreat. The result is a new bill on immigrants
• Whither LMP? The prospects are anything but bright
• Gábor Fodor, the “political parasite”
• An episode from the “free” Hungarian media
• Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, “Hungary: Goulash authoritarianism”
• Heather A. Conley & Charles Gati: Trump loves a strongman, so of course he fawns over Viktor Orbán
• The uncertain fate of the “Stop Soros” bill
• What the tornado left behind
• Surviving a tornado
• Signs of life
• Tornado
• Eva J. Zemandl: Orbán’s Hungary, transnational tribalism, and the emergence of a new European order
• János Lázár’s “Cassandra letter”
• Viktor Orbán sent a message to the world: No change in domestic and foreign affairs
• The right-wing literati demand not just equality but supremacy
• Not just liberals. Long-time loyalist Gergely Prőhle is also under attack
• Árpád Szakács on the left-liberal cultural dictatorship
• What’s going on in MSZP? Is it really planning to hop on the Fidesz bandwagon?
• Selected examples of nonsense from Hungary
• András Lukács: Hungarian experts on EU funding for Hungary
• VIiktor Orbán on his plans for the next four years. Part II
• Viktor Orbán on his plans for the next four years. Part I
• Orbán’s latest: Plans for the subordination of the judiciary
• The Orbán government is bracing for “financial terror”
• After the election: A new public opinion poll
• Orbán returns to Brussels for a “chat” as the EU tries to rein in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán is flexing his muscles in Brussels
• Data appendices to Tappanch: Anomalies in 12 exhibits
• Tappanch: Anomalies in 12 exhibits, or was the election a farce?
• A typical Szijjártó performance in the European Parliament
• Johanna Laakso: Knowledge is power?
• Viktor Orbán’s meddling in Austrian affairs
• BBC’s Nick Thorpe vs. historian Mária Schmidt
• Why is Fidesz so successful in the poorest regions of the country?
• A look behind the election results
• Post-election panorama: What’s new and what’s different?
• Will reality catch up with the Orbán regime?
• Submission and fear everywhere
• Politics cannot be different: András Schiffer’s LMP
• Angela Merkel, Fidesz, and the European People’s Party
• The European Commission’s shameful role in the victory of Fidesz
• “We are the majority”: A euphoric demonstration of unity
• What to expect after the election?
• Exit interview with Richard Field, managing editor of The Budapest Beacon
• Meet some prominent members of the Hungarian democratic opposition
• Szijjártó: “We’ve had the Tavares Report, now comes the Soros Report,” and then what?
• Post-election, LMP in turmoil
• Widespread suspicion about electoral fraud in Hungary
• Opinion polls and reality: The Hungarian election
• Huge Fidesz victory: A grim future for Hungarian democracy
• Hungarian sports projects: formula for success or financial madness?
• Situation report two days before the election
• The Orbán government’s spy network against George Soros. Part I
• Fidesz in action: lists, recruiters, and making the new Vásárhely mayor’s life miserable
• A circus act that is not very funny
• New predictions, more confusion
• How much do we know about voters and their preferences? Not enough
• The “Érpatak Model” sounds frighteningly familiar, just on a smaller scale
• Three faces of the Hungarian democratic opposition
• Tightening noose or just wishful thinking?
• Strange stories emerge during a strange election campaign
• Fidesz propaganda on Facebook
• The money is real but what about the company? The story of Zsolt Szabó’s Belize account
• The ineptitude of the Hungarian left-of-center opposition
• What was Viktor Orbán’s role in the European Union’s condemnation of Russia?
• Russian propaganda in Hungarian government media
• In order to get George Soros, Orbán will go far–all the way to Jerusalem
• Collusion: Fidesz and the bogus parties
• Can the opposition parties “hold their noses” and perhaps win an election?
• Negotiations (or talks if one prefers) have begun among opposition politicians
• Viktor Orbán’s speech and the responsibility of journalists
• Miklós Haraszti’s keynote speech at the Budapest award ceremony of the European Press Prize
• A threatening, shameful speech draws the opposition closer together
• Small-town politics Fidesz style: Hódmezővásárhely
• Important Fidesz politician caught in a possible money laundering case
• Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and the Swedish reindeer
• Fidesz-created bogus parties as means of political gain
• David against Goliath and his friends in Hódmezővásárhely
• Hungarian diplomacy at work: János Lázár on pitiable Vienna
• Notice
• Hungarian politics in flux
• How useful are the opinion polls in select electoral districts?
• U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Viktor Orbán
• “The villain is dead”–The day Stalin died
• The strategy of hate: Viktor Orbán in Miskolc
• Orbán lending a helping hand to Putin in Ukraine
• Who’s panicking? Viktor Orbán on the coming election
• Benjamin Novak: “We are no longer bastions of the rule of law”–An interview
• A final nudge
• The political landscape after Hódmezővásárhely
• A possible new enemy to replace George Soros: the United Nations
• Fidesz reactions to the Hódmezővásárhely earthquake
• A rout in Hódmezővásárhely: Fidesz loses by 16 percentage points
• Amid anti-immigrant propaganda, the sons of a Chinese immigrant win gold for Hungary
• Péter Konok: “Aunt Mari, I have bad, good, and strange news”
• History won’t have to be rewritten but we do have DNA from the House of Árpád
• All eyes on Hódmezővásárhely: Brutal campaign in a Fidesz stronghold
• The European Commission, TAO support for sports, and the quality of Hungarian football
• Reminder
• Orbán predicts MSZP’s demise in his state of the nation address
• Wholesale harassment of foreign journalists in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Ahead of the election: LMP and DK are off and running
• The Tiborcz scandal is not “a mosquito bite”
• Please support Hungarian Spectrum
• Could János Lázár be the sacrificial lamb of the Elios affair?
• The spies who were not; cheap gas that is not; negotiations that will not be
• The sorry state of the Hungarian opposition
• The way the world is beginning to see Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• MSZP-Párbeszéd held its campaign launch
• Liberated from Russia? What does Viktor Orbán have in mind?
• “Observer”: The Stop Soros bills–Hopefully only propaganda and nonsense
• Viktor Orbán’s favorite Jews: Slomó Köves and his tiny Chabad congregation
• Mafia-like criminal network around the Orbán family
• What was behind Péter Szijjártó’s trip to Washington?
• MSZP’s Karácsony and Molnár in Transylvania. A waste of time
• The Financial Times in the crosshairs of the Orbán government
• Picking a fight with the United Nations
• Hungary is again near the bottom of the list. This time it’s healthcare
• Chinks in Fidesz’s political armor
• Austria as an ally of Orbán’s Hungary?
• Sándor Lezsák: “A quiet prayer for Miklós Horthy”
• “Observer”: Inappropriate “guidance” by the National Election Commission
• Miklós Haraszti on the election: An interview
• The Orbán government is contemplating restrictions on media freedom
• The Orbán government defeated in Luxembourg: Will it retaliate?
• “Memorial mass” for Miklós Horthy cancelled
• A new job for OLAF? Győző Orbán, the father of Viktor Orbán
• Fidesz communication went astray. Total chaos and confusion
• Hungarians in praise of Vladimir Putin and his empire
• András Inotai: “Spiritual genocide is taking place here”
• The spectacular business career of Lőrinc Mészáros
• Who poses a danger to Hungary’s national security? Anyone who lends a helping hand to a refugee
• Foreign Minister Szijjártó goes to Washington, and silence follows
• Sebastian Gorka: gun charges on two continents
• Launching a new action plan, “Stop Soros”
• Church and State in Orbán’s Hungary
• Surprise, surprise! OLAF found “serious irregularities” on Orbán’s home turf
• Miklós Haraszti: Countering illiberal usurpations of democracy
• The Congressional Hungarian-American Caucus: Documents
• “Observer”: An action befitting a dictatorship
• The far-right Orbán government’s attack on György Konrád
• The European Parliament rapporteur on Hungary pays a visit to Budapest
• To run against Fidesz might be injurious to your health: The case of Péter Márki-Zay
• Who is the real winner of the Austrian election? Perhaps not Viktor Orbán, after all
• Leo Varadkar and Viktor Orbán had “a very direct exchange of views”
• Morawiecki’s pilgrimage to Budapest: It might have been in vain
• One of the favorite businessmen of the Orbán government: András Lénárd of Real Csíki Beer
• Old-timers offer a helping hand to the democratic opposition
• People on the margins of Hungarian society: Szentegát and Szigetvár
• The Iron Lady’s business venture and the Orbán government
• National Defense Action Plan for school officials
• Happy New Year to all of you
• Russian influence on the Hungarian “government-organized media”
• The Orbán government’s international conference on the future of Europe, with Milo Yiannopoulos
• Johanna Laakso: Friends and foes of “freedom”
• They don’t see eye to eye: Pope Francis and the Hungarian bishops
• Viktor Orbán rewrites the Bible and falsifies the words of Jesus
• Holiday Greetings
• Ghostly Ukrainian citizens on Hungarian pensions
• What will come of Orbán’s opposition?
• Recent gleanings from the Hungarian media
• Charles Gati: “Who the F*ck is this Viktor Orban?”
• A partial agreement between MSZP and DK
• “Observer”: The heavily biased Hungarian electoral system
• Hungarian anti-Soros campaign hatched in Jerusalem?
• Open Society Foundation moved to the “provinces”
• The Hungarian government’s scholarship program for foreign students
• Orbán’s struggle will continue, but there might be a new enemy: Martin Schulz
• Was Orbán’s bout with the EU a “points victory”? We will see tomorrow
• The charge of sexual harassment used as a political tool? The Henrik Havas case
• Microsoft had enough: heads rolled
• Dress rehearsal for the national election? By-election in Solymár
• Márta Pardavi’s testimony at the EP hearing on the Situation in Hungary
• European Union salvo against Viktor Orbán’s illiberal state
• On George Soros and from George Soros
• That’s one way to win an election–Eliminate the opposition
• Hungary’s “geopolitical game”: Playing hardball with Ukraine
• Miklós K. Radványi: “Open letter to Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary” 
• János Háry in the country tavern
• Food for thought: Poverty, charity, and civil society
• The plot thickens: George Soros enters Hungary’s forthcoming election
• Negotiations drag on, but there are a couple of bright spots on the horizon
• Anne Applebaum’s encounter with Mária Schmidt
• Is China buying up Eastern Europe on the cheap?
• Open letter to Jean-Claude Juncker
• Hungary and gender equality: An abysmal record
• A political deal was struck: The European Union, Hungary, and Rosatom
• “National Consultation” at closer quarters
• European Commission: “The state of health in the EU: Hungary”
• Another PISA test, another poor performance
• MSZP and DK at the negotiating table
• George Soros’s messages and the Hungarian government’s reactions
• George Soros: “Rebuttal of the October 9 National Consultation in Hungary”
• Beware, the refugees are coming!
• Gábor Vona and Katalin Rangos in the Spinoza Theater
• One of the many impostors in the service of the Orbán government
• Financing of Hungarian sports: court rules it must be transparent
• Belligerency rarely works in diplomacy: Hungary and Ukraine
• Western worries about Russian disinformation just “fits of hysterics”
• A fanciful government story on international terrorism and Jobbik
• Carter Page in Budapest
• Viktor Orbán: In praise of nationalism
• U.S. State Department comes to the aid of the beleaguered regional press in Hungary
• Jobbik’s checkered past and present
• Former PM Péter Medgyessy on the current political situation
• Sugar daddies and sugar babies arrived in Hungary
• MSZP’s self-inflicted wounds, with some outside help
• Hungarian Roma dilemmas
• The famous Gypsy politician’s reputation has been tarnished
• Hungarian refugees of 1956 and the current refugee crisis
• Demokratikus Koalíció moves into a “new phase” of its electoral campaign
• “The struggling young couple”: István Tiborcz and Ráhel Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s government: “The manifestation of God’s grace”
• Jobbik’s Krisztina Morvai: A portrait
• Paul Lendvai, Orbán: Europe’s New Strongman. A review
• Do we know what Jobbik is all about?
• Viktor Orbán on his role at the European Council Summit
• Hungarian government warms up an old story: last year’s DCLeaks
• Another abortive attempt at forging a united democratic opposition against Orbán
• Conservative awakening in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán on homo brusselicus and the power of the dark side
• Miklós Vásárhelyi is taking stock: The memoirs of Imre Nagy’s press secretary
• The Hungarian media and the local Harvey Weinstein case
• Karl Pfeifer: An interview with Zsuzsa Ferge on poverty in Hungary
• Another European summit, with special attention to the Visegrád 4
• MSZP’s Gergely Bárándy “debates”: Self-inflicted wounds
• Intraparty affairs of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP)
• Freedom of the press in Hungary: an American critique
• On language and food
• The Orbán government is dragging its feet on the issue of Central European University
• Fidesz and gender inequality
• Hungary leads the way in defense of persecuted Christians
• The latest opinion polls on the chances of the opposition parties
• Mária M. Kovács’s laudatory remarks on Randolph L. Braham and his work on the Hungarian Holocaust
• Viktor Orbán is losing his cool
• Freemasons, Satanic forces, the Soros Plan, and the kitchen sink
• From football to fear: Recent opinion polls in Hungary
• Another attempt to silence Jobbik
• Viktor Orbán rails against the European Commission’s “reasoned opinions”
• Viktor Orbán’s election campaign in Romania
• From chaos to possible prospects for political understanding
• The truth about the so-called Soros Plan
• László Botka’s resignation ends a nine-month ordeal
• National consultation on the Soros Plan: Questions and infoboxes
• Censured journalists: The case of Lili Bayer
• The seeds of hatred taking root in the Hungarian countryside
• Justin Spike: Hungarian village vents its hatred of refugees
• Viktor Orbán in Hanoi
• MSZP is grasping at straws as its support plummets
• MSZP’s “generous offer” rejected
• Dilemmas in current Hungarian politics
• Another miracle: Eight-party working document on Hungary’s electoral system
• Two new Hungarian citizens: Part of assistance to persecuted Christians
• Putin’s award: 50s-style investigation of protesting Debrecen professors
• Will Rosatom have its own airfield in Pécs?
• A first: Nine opposition parties agree on long-range healthcare priorities
• Viktor Orbán: Christian Europe in danger
• A new strategy or a new man is needed to lead the anti-Orbán forces
• Hungarians’ changing priorities; shifts in the left-of-center media
• Immigrants in Hungary: The Dutch colony in Csemő
• The Orbán government and its American media supporters
• George Soros, the omnipotent bogeyman: the focus of Fidesz’s electoral campaign
• Juncker’s vision for the future of Europe
• Hungary is on the warpath against Ukraine’s education law
• Bernadett Szél hopes to be Hungary’s next prime minister
• The latest brainstorm: military sports centers to popularize a military career
• Felcsút: The forbidden village for EP “bureaucrats”
• Another peacock dance: Orbán’s reversal on the verdict of the European Court of Justice
• Viktor Orbán on solidarity and financial assistance
• The “Azerbaijan Laundromat” and Orbán’s Hungary
• How far is Kötcse from Brussels? Very far
• Who is planning physical violence on the streets of Budapest?
• Legal grounds for the suspension of EU funding to Hungary now
• “Orbán or Europe? Choose!”
• The Orbán government’s penchant for religious educational institutions
• The City of Pécs, which served as Fidesz’s laboratory, is close to bankruptcy
• Ambassador Scheltema: “We mustn’t keep a corrupt regime alive”
• László Botka is on the campaign trail, with some hiccups
• The strangest encounter: Vladimir Putin in Budapest
• THE TRUE STORY OF BÉLA KIRÁLY, THE HERO OF THE 1956 REVOLUTION. PART II
• The true story of Béla Király, the hero of the 1956 revolution. Part I
• Hungary is waiting for an apology from the Netherlands
• Friction between natural allies: The Orbán government and the Catholic Church
• “Observer”: 150 billion Ft. support for ethnic Hungarian businesses abroad. Really?
• The rise and fall of Mária Erdő, sister of the head of the Hungarian Catholic Church
• How strong is the Visegrád Four? According to some, it barely exists
• A minor miracle: nine parties support Márton Gulyás’s electoral reform plan
• Hungarians oppose the Orbán government’s policy toward ethnic Hungarians living abroad
• Musings on history and politics on the eve of Hungary’s national holiday
• Moving to the center? Anne Applebaum’s essay on Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump
• Life in the Hungarian transit zones
• László Bogdán is still the Roma miracle worker of Cserdi
• Two “Unite The Right” organizers and Hungary
• Alcohol and sex: The case of LMP’s Péter Ungár
• Charlottesville from a Hungarian perspective
• Transylvania in focus
• The Hungarian socialists in turmoil?
• Extradition of Yerzhan Kadesov to Kazakhstan, with Hungarian assistance
• Hungarian politicians and Migration Aid’s “migrant resorts”
• Toward a police state? A proposed government “data grab”
• Foreign language teaching in Hungary: Progress is very slow
• Introducing patriotic physical education classes
• What happened to Momentum? The loss of youthful innocence
• A Hungarian reassessment of Donald Trump
• Hungary is unique after all: Pew research on terrorism and refugees
• Election predictions and fallout from the Botka-Molnár controversy
• Whither MSZP? It seems to be stalled
• Search for saboteurs brings back unpleasant memories
• Hungarian state media about life in the West: What happened in Leipzig?
• Preparations for an assault on the media: Index and the cyber attack on the BKK site
• Andrea Ladó says: “I’m the one who is at home in Tusványos, not Viktor”
• Will the little fish eat the big one? MSZP’s struggle with Ferenc Gyurcsány’s ghost
• The next victims of Orbán’s hate campaign will be the journalists
• Should Hungarian-speaking Roma students be educated in Hungarian schools in Slovakia and Romania?
• George Soros in his own words
• Are George Soros and Pope Francis part of a global conspiracy? Ask Zsolt Bayer
• Another grain of sand on the pile: The e-ticket fiasco
• Viktor Orbán, the leading statesman of Europe
• Viktor Orbán and the Chabad kosher business
• András Heisler’s speech in the presence of Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Orbán
• Meeting of the minds: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Visegrád 4
• Viktor Orbán admits “a mistake, nay a sin” against Hungary’s Jewish citizens in 1944
• The Hungarian Jewish community feels abandoned by Netanyahu’s Israel
• Is this new far-right movement really new? No, it isn’t
• The opening extravaganza of the Aquatic Championships didn’t capture the world’s imagination
• Infringement proceedings galore, but what good will they do?
• Is Zoltán Balog emotionally unfit to oversee the ministry of human resources?
• The “totally successful” anti-Soros campaign comes to a sudden end
• Azeri and Russian companies in charge of the Aquatic World Championship’s information technology
• Orbán’s trust in Flórián Farkas is unwavering: The price is 2.5 billion forints
• What are Soros’s solutions to the refugee crisis? Not what Orbán claims
• What awaits the Visegrád Four?
• What’s the new Fidesz game plan?
• Gay “freaks” threaten Hungarian values
• George Soros and George Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein
• A quick look at three recent events in Hungary
• Gábor Szabó: The Media in Hungary – The Example of Environmental Journalism
• A few gems from Viktor Orbán’s “strong and proud” Hungary
• The odd man out in Europe: Viktor Orbán in Ankara
• The heist of two million euros
• The Three Seas Initiative and Donald Trump
• Viktor Orbán turns up the volume
• Hungarian Spectrum celebrates its tenth anniversary
• Hungary at a crossroads? Viktor Orbán will have to choose
• Viktor Orbán’s dirty political deal at the expense of the City of Budapest
• Mission accomplished: Jobbik’s hard-hitting billboards will be removed
• Emmanuel Macron meets the leaders of the Visegrád 4 countries
• Viktor Orbán: “The French president is a new boy” who should learn a thing or two
• In Orbán’s opinion Miklós Horthy was an exceptional statesman
• László Botka has taken things into his own hands in MSZP
• What’s MSZP up to? Other opposition parties are suspicious
• Justice in Orbán’s Hungary: The Ahmed H. case
• Sándor Kerekes: The Dress Rehearsal–The fate of George Lukács and his archives
• Teaching Hungarian doctors to say hello
• Hungarian NGOs embrace civil disobedience
• Hungary’s transit zones are actually prisons where even pregnant women are handcuffed
• The “Let’s stop Brussels” questionnaire: Orbán’s silver bullet?
• The agony of Hungarian football
• Orbán’s latest foray into world affairs: the Iranian-Hungarian nuclear deal
• Government media on foreign affairs: The British election
• Momentum’s András Fekete-Győr: “We have one year”
• “An important accomplishment”: Two most likely innocent men were convicted in the Sukoró case
• László Botka is forging ahead, leaving others behind
• Far-right western politicians in Hungary: Jim Dowson and Nick Griffin
• Today’s extra: Solidarity?
• The Metamorphosis of Sebastian Gorka
• A new declaration of war: Justice for Hungary!
• George Soros and the mafia state: The Hungarian reaction
• Spotlight on Sebastian Gorka’s Controversial Medal
• MSZP’s László Botka in Brussels
• Central European University refuses to be intimidated
• The Budapest Family Summit: A gathering of the far right
• László Botka is MSZP’s candidate to face Viktor Orbán in 2018
• Sources of Fidesz propaganda: Foreign and domestic alt-right sites
• Viktor Orbán’s friends: Vladimir Putin, Recep Erdoğan, and Ilham Aliyev
• As far as Hungarian state television is concerned, Soros is an evil Zionist
• The Hungarian right and the Manchester terrorist attack
• CEU: New York State vs. Hungarian legal gobbledygook
• The real story of the ELI Laser Center in Szeged
• Snippets from Viktor Orbán’s recent speeches–turning eastward and inward
• Shrinking population, shrinking labor force, sluggish economy
• Mária Schmidt and Zsolt Bayer on the fate of Europe
• Miklós Horthy will not have a statue in Perkáta after all
• Is it time for Viktor Orbán to choose sides?
• A European Union first: Article 7(1) on the table
• Boycotting the media is counterproductive
• Today’s extra: Who is a “financial speculator?”–János Lázár explains
• The European Union and Chinese plans for the reorganization of the global economy
• Hate campaigns and their consequences
• Fidesz’s very own “NGOs” stuffed with public money
• Putin’s Night Wolves pay a visit to Budapest
• An American LGBT hate group will enjoy the hospitality of the Orbán government
• The Hungarian government media’s portraits of Macron
• “The saddest video of the year”–Orbán’s encounter with Bözsi néni
• Orbán is unhappy with the results of the French election
• Physical force used against Hungarian journalists
• The Hungarian government and transparency: The case of the mentally disabled
• Is Orbán an anti-Semite? Is Putin blackmailing him? A day of charges and countercharges
• The state of the Hungarian press on World Press Day
• Medián: Serious loss for Fidesz, gain for Jobbik
• Viktor Orbán’s answer to the Jobbik campaign against him and his regime
• Hungary’s press is no longer free
• The anti-EU, anti-Soros campaigns continue with renewed vigor
• Today’s extra: “Observer” on the enrichment of György Matolcsy & family
• What really happened at the EPP meeting this morning?
• Patience is running out in the European People’s Party when it comes to Viktor Orbán
• Charles Gati: “Even the most talented diplomat cannot sell junk”
• Viktor Orbán before the European Parliament
• Michael Ignatieff in Brussels ahead of Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s latest war is turning out to be a big mistake
• Growing anti-Russian sentiment in Hungary
• Sándor Kerekes: My friend and my neighbor, CEU
• Viktor Orbán is playing with fire with those itchy Christian palms
• Debate on the Hungarian electoral law
• The Hungarian parliament “debates” the anti-NGO bill
• Today’s extra: Interview with leaders of three Hungarian NGOs
• From Viktor Orbán’s mailbox: Letters from former loyalists
• Mária Schmidt on George Soros, the grave digger of the left, Part II
• Mária Schmidt on George Soros, the grave digger of the left, part i
• Closing statements of activists Márton Gulyás and Gergő Varga
• Hungary has no secrets from Russia? The strange story of the Yandex capture code
• A short pause in the battle between the Orbán government and CEU
• Viktor Orbán’s regime under fire at home and abroad
• Viktor Orbán’s plans foiled: The U.S. government won’t negotiate
• President János Áder signed the anti-CEU law despite worldwide protests and massive demonstrations
• A frustrated Viktor Orbán dismisses his ambassador to Washington
• The Orbán media on the U.S. air strikes in Syria
• Hungary, as a partner of Iran, is now in the nuclear business
• Situation report on the fight for Central European University
• Viktor Orbán’s next victims: The civic organizations
• Attack on Central European University is part of an ideological struggle
• Breaking news: Rosatom was Viktor Orbán’s piggy bank
• National consultation, 2017: “Let’s stop Brussels!”
• Daniel Penev, What Central European University stands for: An insider’s perspective
• Viktor Orbán stood alone at the EPP congress
• The evidence is missing, but the Hungarian government claims “food discrimination”
• Central European University in Viktor Orbán’s crosshairs
• Central European University responds to a government plan to close it down
• The Hungarian government’s flouting of European law and human rights
• The Rome Declaration: “A Ray of Hope” according to Magyar Idők
• Karl Pfeifer: The Orbán regime takes Horthy’s Hungary as an example
• Eradicating György Lukács’s heritage
• The dangers of being a historian in Orbán’s Hungary
• Medián: Support for László Botka
• Hungarian secret agent on the Russian threat
• Gábor Vona is trying to cast doubt on Viktor Orbán’s past
• Does (government?) fiction portend trouble for Pintér?
• Politics and the Hungarian socialists–Not a winning combination
• Beer and nationalist madness
• The Hungarian government was caught again: Police brutality was not fake news
• László Botka’s fight against the liberals and for the “melósok”
• European Court of Human Rights on Hungary’s refugee policy
• A success story: The sole Roma student at the Benedictine Gymnasium of Pannonhalma
• The Grand Alliance: Viktor Orbán and Flórián Farkas, partners in crime
• Will communist-era internal security files finally be open in Hungary?
• What’s behind Momentum? Banal clichés
• Viktor Orbán turns his back on the Polish government
• The Hungarian government’s shameful treatment of asylum seekers
• Dániel Róna: Hungarian politics–is the race over?
• A multi-speed Europe and the Visegrád Four
• Thank you
• Russian-Hungarian exchange of top security information
• Mária Vásárhelyi: George Soros’s foundation in Hungary
• Total disarray among the democratic opposition parties
• Regional competitive index: Hungary is at the bottom of the heap
• Scandal after scandal: trying to hide the real meaning of “ethnic homogeneity”
• Charles Gati: Friedman’s “kapo” comment should disqualify him as ambassador to Israel
• Viktor Orbán’s “ethnically homogeneous” Hungary
• Maximilian R. P. Gebhardt: The Emperor Has No Clothes
• A gentle nudge
• Viktor Orbán discovered the culprits of bolshevism in western europe
• What’s in store for the Károlyi Palace in Fót?
• Amnesty International: Devastating report on Hungary
• Viktor Orbán avoids humiliation at the hands of the International Olympic Committee
• The chairman of the Hungarian central bank discovered a U.S. plot to topple the Orbán government
• János Kornai: The System Paradigm Revisited: CLARIFICATION AND ADDITIONS IN THE LIGHT OF EXPERIENCES IN THE POST-SOCIALIST REGION , Part I
• Multinationals accused of selling inferior food products to Hungarians
• Help keep the lights on
• Botka’s formal introduction as MSZP’s candidate for Hungary’s new prime minister
• The past seven years: Hungary in numbers, 2010-2016
• It has taken three years but the Istanbul Convention will soon be ratified
• The Hungarian opposition shows signs of life
• Neo-Nazis, Hungarists, and anti-Semites
• Viktor Orbán’s vision of a new world order is fading
• One can always count on a good friend (or an alter ego): Lőrinc Mészáros and Viktor Orbán
• Donald Trump’s influential advisers: Sebastian and Katharine Gorka
• “Keep quiet”–A documentary on Csanád Szegedi’s conversion from anti-Semite to observant Jew
• Viktor Orbán’s next target: Central European University in Budapest
• The Hungarian government chips away at the abortion law
• A Christian Democratic politician’s illicit affair with a minor
• “Visa shopping” in Moscow: The case of Szilárd Kiss
• László Lengyel, the “kingmaker”
• Metro 4: The largest case of Hungarian fraud and corruption
• Does Putin have something on Orbán? Suspicion lingers
• Orbán: “one of the greatest virtues is to know where one’s place is”
• Donald Trump’s Russia policy must be a disappointment to Viktor Orbán
• Sebastian L. von Gorka’s encounter with the Hungarian National Security Office
• Hungary as a blueprint for an autocratic United States
• Momentum’s anti-Olympics drive is already a success
• Sebastian Gorka’s road from Budapest to the White House
• The perils of being an opposition politician in Hungary
• An EU prosecutor’s office would be a heavy blow to Viktor Orbán
• The political credo of László Botka, MSZP’s candidate for prime minister
• Momentum’s anti-Olympics drive has momentum
• Hungary has been steadily becoming more corrupt
• The Hungarian right loves not only Donald Trump but also Clarence Thomas
• Viktor Orbán’s faithful professors criticized but then quickly retreated
• Viktor Orbán misunderstands Donald Trump
• Conservative economists on Hungary’s prospects
• The race to Trump’s White House: The Romanians are leading
• US Ambassador Colleen Bell’s farewell interview
• On László Botka’s nomination and an NGO win
• Another attempt to change the political landscape: The Momentum Movement
• Gábor Vona and the transformation of Jobbik
• Silencing the media: Hír TV
• Jobbik’s Gábor Vona and his Hanukkah greetings
• Viktor Orbán’s rubber bones? No, his master plan
• Viktor Orbán is back: his views on migrants, NGOs, and the Trump administration
• Blueprint for character assassination: The case of Ákos Hadházy
• Two letters of Central European leaders to Washington: 2009 and 2017
• One of Donald Trump’s first victims may be the Hungarian NGOs
• The Hungarian opposition is still in disarray
• What happened to “the jewel”of Budapest? Nothing good
• Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania and a Muslim Europe
• Teaching and politics: A grade-eight geography book
• Will the left have a presidential candidate? Not at all sure
• Fidesz censorship in Transylvania
• Hungary as the Orbán family’s private estate
• Miklós Haraszti: I watched a populist leader rise in my country–That’s why I’m genuinely worried for America
• Sabotage at the new Fidesz media company?
• Wishing the best to all the readers of Hungarian Spectrum
• Sándor Kerekes: A Hundred Years Later–Today
• Vulnerable Democracies — An interview with János Kornai
• Russian support for far-right groups in Hungary?
• Sports and politics: a football empire and rebellious swimmers
• Warning: An onslaught of old posts are coming
• You don’t want to be a grade 11 student in Hungary
• Happy holidays to all of you
• András Kósa: The speech of the chief, Őszöd ten years later, Part III
• MSZP steps up to support László Botka without talking to the other parties
• OLAF finds irregularities–fraud and possible corruption–in the Metro-4 megaproject
• Can László Botka, MSZP mayor of Szeged, lead the democratic opposition?
• Népszava, the social democratic daily, is in socialist hands again
• Masha Gessen and Susan Faludi on Orbán’s Hungary and Trump’s America
• Olga Kálmán is leaving ATV for Lajos Simicska’s Hír TV
• Donald Trump’s victory made Orbán “the man” in Europe
• Viktor Orbán and freedom of the press
• Another summit, another battle: Viktor Orbán forges on
• Hungarian politicians and learning: Not a good mix
• Fidesz’s preoccupation with Gábor Vona and Jobbik
• The great hope of the Hungarian right: Rex Tillerson as secretary of state
• Not on Viktor Orbán’s Christmas list: A European Public Prosecutor
• A town council on the Serb-Hungarian border takes care of Muslims and gays
• Issues in the Hungarian healthcare system
• Hungary quits the Open Government Partnership in a huff
• Wakeup call: The PISA results reveal deep problems
• PISA: The abysmal results of Viktor Orbán’s educational “reforms”
• András Kósa: “The speech of the chief: Őszöd ten years later” Part II
• The Orbán regime and the Austrian presidential election
• A new crusade in Brussels over the price of electricity
• Trump and Orbán on political correctness
• Let’s have a new enemy: Romania
• Growing dissatisfaction with the Orbán government
• Is LMP in cahoots with Fidesz?
• Learning? Secondary to being “a good Christian and a good Hungarian”
• The centennial of Franz Josef’s death: Hungarians and the Monarchy
• Viktor Orbán’s latest economic experimentation
• A small but close circle: the Orbán family and Arab businessmen
• How not to pick constitutional judges: LMP’s choices II
• How not to pick a constitutional judge: LMP’s choices I
• The new constitutional court: LMP lends a helping hand to Fidesz
• Dictatorship in sports: The case of the Hungarian Swimming Association
• “Hungarian society is in a wretched state”
• Hungarians on foreign affairs and the U.S. election
• János Lázár gives an interview to a left-wing paper
• The men behind Paks II: Günther Oettinger and Klaus Mangold
• Jobbik and the U.S. presidential election
• Viktor Orbán and Ghaith Pharaon: The end of a business relationship?
• The Orbán government stands fast at home and abroad
• The Orbán government’s corruption unveiled by investigative journalists
• Vona, under vicious attack, may yet outfox Orbán
• Domestic retreat and preparation for a battle with Brussels
• After the US election: Europe is anxiously waiting
• Hungarian reaction to Donald Trump’s victory
• The constitutional amendments failed: Another blow to Orbán
• András Kósa: “The speech of the chief: Őszöd ten years later”
• Political lethargy in Hungary, perhaps prayer will help
• Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences speak out while its president is quiet
• The Hungarian opposition remains in disarray
• An inveterate liar: Mária Schmidt’s celebrated freedom fighter
• The eviction of Roma organizations
• The fate of a journalist, Gergely Brückner, who told the truth
• A historical debate on the Tisza trial, 1920-1921
• Power struggle on the Hungarian right?
• Viktor Orbán’s new neighbor: Ghaith Pharaon, fugitive from justice
• A more fitting celebration of the 60th anniversary of ’56 in Washington
• Russian military intelligence and the Hungarian National Front
• The Hungarian government’s Anti-American rhetoric: László Kövér and Péter Boross
• Breaking news: Opimus Press buys Mediaworks’ Népszabadság
• Brazen falsification of the history of ’56 by the Orbán regime
• The sixtieth anniversary of the October Revolution
• A possible opposition election strategy for 2018
• Orbán came home from the summit empty-handed
• Gábor Vona and Viktor Orbán: Who will win this political game?
• Jobbik in attack mode: Suspicious withdrawals from Quaestor
• Mátyás Eörsi declines the government nomination
• The latest plan: The militarization of Hungary’s youth
• The state of media freedom in Hungary as the citizens see it
• After an attack on the media, an assault on Energiaklub
• Open letter to Professor László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Valiant efforts to sell Viktor Orbán’s version of 1956
• Heinrich Pecina, Orbán’s accomplice in the repression of Hungary’s free press
• Are the bureaucrats of Brussels afraid of Orbán as the Devil is of incense?
• What’s the remedy? Boycott of parliament and/or elections?
• The much-heralded seventh amendment to the Hungarian Constitution
• Népszabadság: From an emblematic paper to memory hole
• Viktor Orbán shut down Hungary’s leading opposition paper
• Brussels after the Hungarian referendum
• Hungary’s “constitutional identity”: What does it mean?
• Charles Gati on Hungarian foreign policy: It is hard to sell junk
• DRI: Monitoring Hungarian TV coverage of the refugee referendum
• The deadly embrace of Hungarian television propaganda
• Viktor Orbán’s gamble failed: the referendum is invalid
• The moral and financial cost of the Hungarian hate campaign
• Let’s Invalidate the Hungarian Refugee Quota Referendum!
• What will Viktor Orbán have in his satchel when he goes to Brussels on October 3?
• Terrorists in Hungary? Three days to the referendum
• October 3 may not be a day of rejoicing for the Hungarian government
• The Clinton-Trump debate through Hungarian eyes
• ATV’s Judit Péterfi is looking for the real Gábor Vona
• Explosion in Budapest: Skeptical Hungarians suspect foul play
• Anti-refugee hysteria in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán will take another stab at solving the refugee crisis
• For Viktor Orbán the Hungarian media is still too free
• Is Viktor Orbán’s next project to undo the Treaty of Lisbon?
• OECD’s “Education at a glance, 2016”: An indictment of the Orbán regime
• Two men who put up a fight: Lajos Simicska and Bachar Najari
• Hatemongers in their own words
• The collapse of the united front of the Visegrád 4 in Bratislava
• The Bratislava Summit: No “victory lap” for Viktor Orbán
• When a love affair is no private matter: The case of György Matolcsy
• European solidarity and Orbán’s Hungary
• Jean Asselborn calls for the expulsion of Orbán’s Hungary from the EU
• “We must stop Brussels!” referendum booklet warns Hungarians
• Despite an all-out effort, enthusiasm for the referendum is shrinking
• The fate of Gergely Prőhle: From diplomat to museum director
• Back in business: the Orbán government is after its opponents
• Are security agents recruiting informants in media outlets?
• The Orbán government under fire
• The Orbán government’s colossal swindle: the residency bonds
• Plans for a system of Fidesz party courts?
• Holding the Olympic Games in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s obsession
• Mária Schmidt’s “Israelification of Europe” and Mária M. Kovács’s review
• Educational activist István Pukli’s encounter with the media
• Katrina Lantos Swett returns her Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit
• Blunder after blunder on the left
• Hot topics of the day: Budaházy and Ráhel Orbán
• The first convicted Hungarian terrorist: György Budaházy
• The leaders of Visegrád 4 meet with Angela Merkel
• Zsolt Bayer: “I have no illusions”
• Russian disinformation in the pro-government Hungarian media
• Orbán’s new super fence
• “Border hunters” join soldiers and policemen at the Serbian-Hungarian border
• The baffling story of Zsolt Bayer’s decoration
• In the service of the Orbán regime: György Schöpflin and the pig heads
• Viktor Orbán in Rio
• The Orbán regime and culture: oil and water
• The latest revelations in the Roland Mengyi case
• Zsolt Bayer, the purveyor of hate, in his own words
• Roland Mengyi, the Fidesz Voldemort: from billionaire’s front man to politician
• What’s next? Expulsion of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation from Hungary?
• The only good answer to Orbán’s referendum is a boycott
• Hungarian public opinion on world leaders: Putin favored over Merkel
• The Washington voice of MTI: Judit Járai
• Pope Francis and his Hungarian critics
• Corruption in Hungary is a cooperative effort between government and business
• The Hungarian swimming team at the Olympic Games
• Another Fidesz scandal: Hunguard and Antal Rogán, the inventor
• Orbán’s anti-refugee propaganda is a roaring success
• The Lakitelek foundation and Russian cultural penetration in Hungary
• A woman prime minister for Hungary?
• Orbán giveth and Orbán taketh away
• Stealing money from the poorest: Fidesz MP in a corruption case
• A CANDID INTERVIEW WITH HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PÉTER SZIJJÁRTÓ.    PART II
• A candid interview with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.    Part I
• The siphoning of public funds in Hungary
• Russian propaganda aimed at weakening the European Union
• Eviction looming for both Roma and non-Roma poor in Székesfehérvár
• The U.S. presidential election in the pro-government Hungarian media
• Fidesz and the criminal underworld
• How do Hungarians see Viktor Orbán’s political system and its corruption?
• Meeting of great minds: Orbán welcomes Trump as savior of Europe
• Hungarian army recruitment: modern-day impressment?
• Does Viktor Orbán really want a common European army?
• Viktor Orbán endorsed “the excellent” Donald Trump for president of the United States
• Harmful politicians in the Hungarian democratic opposition
• It’s hard to get away from football when discussing Hungarian politics
• Labor shortage, emigration, and the economy
• Another EU project: Renovation of fortified castles and luxury mansions
• Hungary’s sudden interest in the eurozone
• A pantheon “in the heart of the nation” in the spirit of Imre Makovecz
• Hungarian success didn’t change opinion of Orbán’s football mania
• Antal Rogán’s legal troubles: two organized crime bosses know a lot about him
• Caught in the cogs of the Orbán regime: The case of Péter György
• Furious denial of any wrongdoing and rejection of a European solution to the refugee crisis
• Hungary’s “humane treatment” of the refugees
• Hungarians torn apart by anti-refugee propaganda
• New MSZP leadership: A breath of fresh air
• Viktor Orbán: “We have convinced NATO”
• Gábor Horváth: “Silence Speaks Volumes”
• Severe labor shortage combined with anti-immigration propaganda
• Another government shake-up: Greater confusion guaranteed
• Viktor Orbán’s pointless but possibly dangerous referendum
• George Soros before the European Parliament and the Hungarian government’s reaction
• Ferenc Gyurcsány replies to questions from readers of Hungarian Spectrum
• László Kövér on liberals, socialists, and the nation state
• The Veritas Institute’s legends and myths about the Hungarian Holocaust
• The plight of a Budapest city park
• Anti-semitism, racism, Huxit, or just a bad dream?
• Viktor Orbán’s first day in Brussels without his British prop
• Viktor Orbán in the wake of Brexit
• ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS AFTER BREXIT MUST BE THE REFORM OF THE EU BUDGET
• Orbán’s Veritas Institute looks at anti-Semitism in the Horthy era
• A call for questions to Ferenc Gyurcsány
• New MSZP leadership: New strategy and tactics?
• Viktor Orbán’s interpretation of the Brexit referendum
• A monster was created: Hungarian student unions
• Ferenc Gyurcsány: “Disintegration or something else?”
• The ethos of Hungarian football
• Hungarian politicians support their friends abroad
• Conspiracy theories in Hungary
• Antal Rogán’s decision to sue might have backfired
• How to ruin a businessman with government help? The case of the famed Zsolnay porcelain factory
• György Matolcsy, a headache for Viktor Orbán
• Tibor Navracsics’s political “coming out”
• Hungarian healthcare: Just one case of many
• Zoltán Balog’s Europe: Victim of outside forces
• Orbán’s vision of the future: autocracy with the assistance of law enforcement
• Orbán and his ministers got their report cards: they all failed
• OLIGARCHS COME, OLIGARCHS GO
• Money comes, money goes: European Union subsidies in Hungary
• Turkish and Saudi business ties of Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law
• Stolen art from World War II in Hungarian museums: The Herzog case
• By-election in Dunaújváros and its lessons
• Despite massive government propaganda, Hungarians support further European integration
• My apologies
• A tamed new Jobbik?
• Business ethics is not the strong suit of Russians and Hungarians
• U.S. Undersecretary Sarah Sewall in Hungary
• András Schiffer: From KISZ to neo-communism?
• András Schiffer’s departure is hailed on the left
• The state of the Hungarian economy à la János Lázár et al.
• György Matolcsy, the engine of the Hungarian economy, has his admirers
• From gas-fitter to owner of Chateau Dereszla
• The anti-George Soros campaign intensifies in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s favorite party failed to gain the Austrian presidency
• Hungary is looking for a new source of funding for Paks-2
• János Széky on secrets of the past well kept
• Intellectual fraud in Hungary
• Religion is not a private matter according to the Hungarian government
• George Soros and Viktor Orbán: From friend to enemy
• In Viktor Orbán’s world is foreign policy the handmaiden of propaganda?
• The anti-Hungarian conspiracy: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George Soros
• András Lánczi: What others call corruption is the raison d’être of Fidesz
• Will the MSZP congress elect a new chairman with a new strategy?
• Viktor Orbán and his protector Péter Polt, the prosecutor-general
• Decoding Fidesz’s coded anti-Semitism: the Németh-Szigetvári “debate”
• The good, the evil, and the stork
• A Hungarian guide to ruining an economy, one bus at a time
• Hungary is proceeding with its anti-EU, anti-refugee referendum on compulsory quotas
• Another year, another round of matriculation exams
• Scare tactics: The coming of an Islamic Europe
• Sándor Lezsák’s fiefdom in Lakitelek came to an abrupt end
• Love affair: Ambassador Bell on U.S.-Hungarian relations
• Iván Fischer and the City of Budapest: Music and politics
• Hungary actually spends an enormous amount of money on healthcare. It is just a question of definition
• Inventing a scandal at the Körmend refugee camp
• A possibly very strange end to Viktor Orbán’s political career
• Viktor Orbán’s latest attack on the European Union
• Developments in the Hungarian National Bank corruption case
• Numerology and chugging along
• Viktor Orbán: Moving in 2018 to the place of his dreams?
• Letting the fox guard the henhouse: Hungarian prosecutors undermine justice
• Viktor Orbán’s latest attack against Hungarian education
• The neo-nazi kuruc.info discovered the Jewish Hungarian Spectrum
• The Orbán regime’s reaction to the scandal at the Hungarian National Bank
• The fifth anniversary of the Fundamental Law of 2011
• József Mindszenty: An inveterate anti-Semite or a national hero?
• The Hungarian National Bank’s foundations and their beneficiaries
• Viktor Orbán, the “great supporter” of European common action
• Gábor Vona of Jobbik cleans house
• Medián poll on Hungarian anti-Semitism
• The Helmut Kohl – Viktor Orbán meeting
• Hungarian healthcare in the grip of a corrupt medical aristocracy
• Publicus Institute: Civic groups and political parties
• The role of schools in the spread of democratic thinking
• Criticisms ignored: Advising the Orbán government
• Two critical reports on Hungary from Washington
• Fidesz heavyweights against Viktor Orbán
• The Századvég saga: Largely useless studies commissioned by the Orbán government
• Viktor Orbán’s lost battle: Sunday store closings
• Corruption Research Center’s analysis of Hungarian public procurement practices
• Inadequate hygiene in Hungarian hospitals
• Scandal in the Hungarian Swimming Association
• Brazen plundering of Hungary’s national wealth
• A new chapter in Hungarian politics?
• György Konrád’s “Human flow”: An analysis
• The Orbán government’s latest: jail sentences for encryption software developers
• The Hungarian Constitutional Court delivers a blow to the central bank
• Viktor Orbán and family in Washington
• The Hungarian Catholic church and education
• Government conspiracy to prevent a referendum
• Angela Merkel, the refugee crisis, and Christianity
• The EU is playing hardball with Hungary over subsidies
• László Földi, “security expert” in the service of the Orbán government
• The polling game: think tanks in the service of the Hungarian government
• Another “traitor”: Fidesz gutter journalists attack Gábor Török
• Péter Tölgyessy’s dead end
• “OBSERVER”: THE HUNGARIAN ECONOMY: HOW MUCH SMOKE AND MIRRORS? PART II
• Viktor Orbán’s latest attempt to introduce “martial law” under the pretext of terrorism
• “Observer”: The Hungarian Economy: How much smoke and mirrors? Part I
• Andy Vajna’s TV station: the government’s attack dog
• Citizenship for sale for the benefit of private individuals
• Viktor Orbán in full armor: a knight or a liar?
• Joining forces? Conservatives raise their voices
• Teachers’ revolt, Nazi speech, and Orbán’s “battle” in Brussels
• Viktor Orbán’s speech: war against the world
• The great awakening: Hungary’s twenty-first century 1848
• Zsolt Bayer: It’s all the Jews’ fault
• The real estate empire of the Hungarian National Bank and its foundations
• New polls challenge Fidesz’s political and ideological hegemony
• Fidesz exports its ideology and methods to the neighbors: Serbia and Slovakia
• The scandal of Viktor Orbán’s secret estate
• Nationwide state of emergency is declared in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s “veto” turned out to be a hoax
• Viktor Orbán and his entourage in Baku
• A perfect money laundering device: The Hungarian National Bank’s foundations
• Seehofer in Hungary: A disappointment for Orbán
• A footnote to the story of Daffodil
• The continuing saga of the referendum question
• Adolf Hitler: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed”
• Is Viktor Orbán’s edifice starting to crumble?
• Spies allegedly working for the United States arrested in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s speech: Ignoring the gathering clouds
• Tamás Bauer on the task of the Hungarian opposition
• The afterlife of György Donáth’s bust
• Thank you
• Viktor Orbán’s democracy: Nationalism, pure and simple
• Another attempt to erect a statue honoring an anti-Semitic racist
• The latest Orbán stunt: A referendum on “compulsory settlement” of refugees
• No referendum, no matter what it takes to prevent it
• The new Hungarian aristocracy: Wedding at the National Museum of Fine Arts
• Viktor Orbán and the European Union: A forced change of strategy?
• Viktor Orbán at the EU summit
• Bálint Magyar’s latest book: Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
• The situation of Hungarian human rights defenders: mission statement by UN special rapporteur Michel Forst
• Putin’s messenger boy: Viktor Orbán in Moscow
• The new Hungarian landowners or, as some call them, “ersatz peasants”
• The beggar maid
• The Visegrád Four and the “Prague Declaration”
• The sorry state of the Hungarian opposition
• After the demonstration: Fidesz is in a quandary
• Eva S. Balogh interview with Benjamin Novak
• THE FIDESZ CRIME SYNDICATE: INTERVIEW WITH ÁKOS HADHÁZY
• Viktor Orbán’s solution to the refugee crisis has been discarded
• The Orbán government’s sigh of relief was too hasty: the teachers are not appeased
• No, Viktor, illiberalism is not the key to economic growth
• Neo-Nazis remember the “Day of Honor,” but why in Székesfehérvár?
• The Finnish educational model and current Hungarian reality
• Viktor Orbán on the success of his educational “reforms”
• The Orbán government is determined: it alone will decide on the state of terror threat
• Lázár struggles to rationalize axing civil servants
• Viktor Orbán’s education system “carries serious political risks”
• Jobbik’s new centrist strategy
• Fidesz and the judiciary: Another attempt at pressure
• The ideal new republic?
• Guide book to embezzlement of European Union subsidies. Part II
• Guide book to embezzlement of European Union subsidies. Part I
• Corruption and the Hungarian economy
• Social media and political change: The case of the Hungarian “teachers’ revolt”
• Viktor Orbán on a diplomatic mission in Mongolia?
• Is democracy a useless slogan in Hungarian political discourse?
• Economists of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences speak out against the central bank’s “foundations”
• Conservative critics of the Orbán regime: The József Eötvös Group
• The Orbán government’s proposed amendments
• Political action and the critical mass
• Is the Hungarian far-right Jobbik party financed by Russia?
• Poland at a crossroads?
• The Nurse in Black keeps fighting
• Oops!
• The doctors have also had enough
• Teachers’ revolt is brewing in Hungary
• The right decision: MSZP refuses to assist Orbán’s illiberal democracy
• How far is Hungary prepared to go to raise the country’s birthrate?
• Toward a police state: the government’s latest effort at limiting democratic freedoms
• Cologne and its aftermath
• Zsolt Bayer’s Grønland, Oslo–Not very original
• The latest business venture of Orbán’s son-in-law
• Storm in the swimming pool? No, a clash between the old and the new
• Polish-Hungarian friendship in action
• Viktor Orbán, the politician of European stature, fails as a negotiator
• Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Jarosław Kaczyński
• Defending “the social order” by force of arms?
• Is Paks II dead?
• A mistake
• A new year: roll back the clock
• Love at Christmas time in Hungary
• The world’s most generous government assistance for a third child
• Happy New Year to all
• Mária Vásárhelyi: “Self-appraisal”–The failure of the regime change
• How did Calvinism survive in Hungary?
• Warsaw versus Budapest
• It’s not corruption. It’s national interest
• János Lázár: A Portrait
• George Szirtes: “The Flight”
• Happy Holidays
• László Kövér, the voice of Fidesz’s inner thoughts
• Hungarian doctors ask public support for improvements to healthcare
• The homeland needs more babies
• October 23, 1992: The first signs of a growing Hungarian extreme right
• Hungarian prosecutors found the lone culprit in the corruption scandal
• Hungarians’ fear of migrants and terrorism
• Tit for tat: The Orbán government retaliates against Magyar Telekom
• Viktor Orbán, the man responsible for the statue honoring the anti-Semitic Bálint Hóman
• The new and improved format for comments
• László Kövér, the misogynist and feckless diplomat
• An important notice to commenters
• Viktor Orbán’s latest foray against European values
• Mighty few fans and a multitude of stadiums in Hungary
• The Norway Funds and the statue of Bálint Hóman: two defeats for the Hungarian government?
• Joseph Forgas: The disdainful leader–Planting primitive propaganda in fertile soil
• Colleen Bell on corruption; Fidesz on Colleen Bell
• Is the Hungarian economy in trouble?
• The case of the Bálint Hóman statue from a different angle
• ANGELA MERKEL AND GERMANY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HUNGARIAN RIGHT. PART II
• Angela Merkel and Germany from the perspective of the Hungarian right. Part I
• Recruiting terrorists in Budapest among the refugees: The Hungarian version
• An old story surfaces: Iván Fischer’s 2011 letter to Hillary Clinton
• The corrupt Roma organization and its former chairman have Viktor Orbán’s support
• Highway robbery made lawful
• Jewish conspiracy theories in the wake of the refugee crisis
• Viktor Orbán’s work-based society and accelerated emigration
• Shifts in Hungarian party politics
• Full-court press against the Orbán government
• András Göllner: Is Hungary taking Canada’s Jews for a ride?
• A foiled attempt on Viktor Orbán’s life? Unlikely
• The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University
• The greatly touted Hungarian terrorist story is a hoax
• Orbán system or Orbán regime: Debate on the nature of the Hungarian government
• Viktor Orbán encounters Jürgen Habermas
• Hungary to introduce nationwide facial recognition technology
• Censorship in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Will the Schengen system survive?
• Infringement procedure against Hungary on account of the Paks nuclear power plant
• Exchange of letters between Viktor Orbán and José Manuel Barroso on the Paks project, January-February, 2014
• The Russian-Hungarian deal on the Paks Nuclear Power PlanT is in trouble
• The rigged referendum game
• Viktor Orbán: Hungary is at war
• István Hiller, MSZP, and the fence
• Hungary is preparing for a possible terrorist attack
• Do you want to buy Hungarian agricultural land? Pay up for a sham course
• European Union in crisis: David Cameron and Viktor Orbán
• Bishop Béla Balás’s vision of an Islamic Europe
• Transparency International: Systemic government corruption in Hungary
• Commissioner Tibor Navracsics on the Orbán government and the European Union
• Viktor Orbán’s lobbying efforts in Washington: The latest recruit is Jeff Duncan of the Tea Party
• The Hungarian right-wing media’s attack on the United States and its ambassador, Colleen Bell
• Imre Mécs’s eulogy: Árpád Göncz was always on the side of the good, the true, and the humane
• Zsolt Németh’s advice to the U.S. State Department
• Budapest Beacon: Civilians and refugees
• Edit Frenyó: Refugee crisis in Hungary–A Hungarian eyewitness account
• Viktor Orbán remembers: Fidesz and the Catholic Church over the years
• Anti-American and anti-Israeli voices in connection with the refugee crisis
• International conspiracy to change the face of Europe, according to Viktor Orbán
• Hungarian analysis of Ambassador Colleen Bell’s speech of October 28
• U.S. AMBASSADOR COLLEEN BELL DELIVERED WASHINGTON’S MESSAGE TO THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT
• The truth caught up with the “national security expert,” György Nógrádi
• Silence in Hungary since the mini-summit
• Hungary was not an observer at the mini-summit. Orbán signed on the dotted line
• Viktor Orbán’s solution to the refugee crisis didn’t find followers in Brussels
• High-stake battle for the ownership of Hungary’s TV2
• The place of October 23 in today’s Hungary
• Ferenc Gyurcsány, the mafia state, and the future of MSZP
• Hungarian fantasies about a radical Roma community allied to Islamic extremists
• Entering a new phase in U.S.-Hungarian relations?
• Viktor Orbán’s “national security experts” on terrorism
• Richard Field: Fear and Loathing in Hungary
• A one-year-old American non-paper surfaces
• Closing the Croatian-Hungarian border will not solve anything
• The perfect prime minister, according to Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán and women in politics
• THE LANGUAGE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO CULTIVATE IT: FINKELSTEIN-GOEBBELS 2.0. Part II
• The language belongs to those who cultivate it: Finkelstein-Goebbels 2.0
• The refugee crisis: conspiracy theories and real causes
• Bishop Béla Balás’s vision of an Islamic Europe
• Germany and the Syrian refugees
• Interviews with Kim Scheppele, András Simonyi, R. Daniel Kelemen, and Edit Frenyó
• The attitude of Hungarians to the refugee crisis
• In memoriam: Árpád Göncz (1922-2015)
• Criticism and self-criticism of Hungarian teachers
• Richard Field: Experts discuss causes and consequences of the refugee crisis
• The moral health of Hungarian society
• Orbán’s crack police force in action at the Serb-Hungarian border
• Viktor Orbán and Péter Szijjártó at the United Nations
• Viktor Orbán’s new “propaganda ministry”
• Viktor Orbán punishes his adversaries
• FOREF’S RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING HUNGARY’S AMENDED CHURCH LAW
• The Orbán government’s anti-immigrant stance
• Viktor Orbán’s claims of historical antecedents
• The “experimental” fence between Slovenia and Hungary
• Duplicity is widespread in the Hungarian government
• Viktor Orbán in Brussels: Success or failure?
• The European Summit has begun: Viktor Orbán arrived with a plan
• Viktor Orbán and the “Christian-National Idea”
• Mária Schmidt, the court historian of Viktor Orbán
• Hungarian public opinion on the government’s handling of the refugee crisis
• A bitter discovery: Hungary is now completely alone
• THE ORIGINS OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS ACCORDING TO VIKTOR ORBÁN. PART II
• The origins of the refugee crisis according to Viktor Orbán. Part I
• High Commissioner for Human Rights: Hungary violating international law
• Lawyers for the rule of law
• The two faces of Hungary
• Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi on PBS’s NewsHour: A poor performance
• Viktor Orbán’s masterplan: Hungary will remain ethnically pure
• Foreign and domestic criticism of Viktor Orbán’s handling of the refugee crisis
• Viktor Orbán’s interview with Bild
• Summary justice is coming within days: Viktor Orbán’s brave new world
• The Hungarian army will soon receive its marching orders
• Viktor Orbán reveals himself to be a racist
• István Simicskó’s encounter with Celeste A. Wallander, 2002
• Viktor Orbán on his western critics
• The Hungarian Catholic Church is not very Christian
• Toward a police state?
• Viktor Orbán’s refugee strategy
• Viktor Orbán went but didn’t conquer: His trip to Brussels
• Hungarian politicians on the European Union
• Ideology and culture: The Mária Petrás case
• Viktor Orbán at a crossroads: Alone or together?
• Foreign responses to the Hungarian handling of the refugee crisis
• Miklós Horthy redux
• Viktor Orbán’s message to Brussels
• Viktor Orbán did not attend the Balkan Summit
• Jobbik shows the way, the Orbán government follows
• Hungary at the Milan Expo: An expensive, embarrassing pavilion
• The dynamics of mass migrations
• Hungary: A nation of emigrants?
• Zoltán Balog’s message to Hungarian writers
• Júlia Király: The not surprising economic slowdown
• National symbols and their importance: The case of the coat-of arms and Hungary’s official holiday
• Péter Boross on immigration, the European Union, and the United States
• A doomed referendum to dismantle Viktor Orbán’s system
• Fidesz charge: The U.S. wants to topple the Hungarian government
• Fidesz and the Horthy regime: Statue for the anti-Semite Bálint Hóman?
• Zsolt Bayer, a Fidesz hack, on the immigration crisis
• “El Camino de Balkan”: In the footsteps of the refugees from Greece to Hungary
• Viktor Orbán and Charles De Gaulle: The dwarf and the giant
• The case of “the nurse in black”: Mária Sándor’s fight for Hungarian healthcare
• A discriminatory law from 2010 is haunting the Orbán government today
• András Schiffer and László Kövér see eye to eye
• Illés Szurovecz: Hungary’s poor worse off after March “reforms”
• Jobbik as a challenger of Fidesz?
• Refugee crisis brings out best and worst in Hungarians
• The anti-immigration propaganda has its limits: The latest Tárki poll
• Andy Vajna in Budapest
• Andy Vajna in Hollywood
• The Hungarian media scene is still in flux
• Immigration as a curse in Hungarian history?
• The failure of the Hungarian healthcare system: Two recent stories
• Béla Pomogáts: A legend’s reincarnation
• A plagiarist educator? Yes, she will be the next principal of a Budapest high school
• The rule book of ELTE’s Rector Magnificus
• The price of a Ph.D.: One has to swear to Fidesz’s Basic Law
• Fact checking Viktor Orbán’s latest speech
• Demographic realities and Viktor Orbán’s ideas on immigration
• What can we learn about U.S.-Hungarian relations from János Lázár?
• Hungarian spies are everywhere
• The European Commission is cracking down on Hungarian infringements
• Two faces of a country: Hungary and the refugees
• Ad hoc hurdles to holding a referendum on Sunday store closings
• The chief of the Hungarian tax office resigns
• Chief Justice Lenkovics on the Fidesz Constitutional Court, Part II
• Chief Justice Lenkovics on the Fidesz Constitutional Court, Part I
• Another Russian-Hungarian deal, good only for the Russians
• The better side of Hungary: Volunteers take charge
• Ignorance and prejudice in Hungary
• EuroHope project: Correlation between funding and excellence in health care
• Bálint Magyar on the failures of the socialist-liberal governments
• Ferenc Gyurcsány: “Orbán knows that he has to take me into account in the long run”
• The Hungarian media and the Greek crisis
• András B. Göllner: From the medium to the message
• The “real” Hungarian watermelon season begins
• Government effort to prevent a referendum on Sunday store closings
• The first stop in the European Union: Refugees keep arriving in Hungary
• One of many of Fidesz-inspired show trials: The Hagyó case
• Further restrictions on freedom of information in illiberal Hungary
• A week of events organized by the Budapest Pride began last night
• Viktor Orbán’s interpretation of the current refugee crisis
• The growing Hungarian emigration
• MSZP and the Hungarian bid to host the Olympics in 2024
• The Orbán government in action: graft and fraud
• RTL Klub’s Híradó: The most popular evening news in Hungary
• Unprepared Hungarian government facing a refugee crisis
• Orbán’s Hungary under attack by its enemies, and they are many
• Viktor Orbán’s redefinition of the refugee crisis
• The “well-oiled business machinery” of Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law
• What changed Orbán’s mind on the Dublin III Regulation?
• Jan-Werner Mueller: An Interview with Kriszta Bombera
• “The great Fidesz gas theft”
• World Aquatics Championship in 2017 with an eye toward hosting the Olympics in 2024
• The Horn government and NATO: The Blinken memoirs, Part II
• A compulsory course on the Holocaust at the Hungarian Catholic University
• The fence “matches the brutal policies of Premier Orbán”
• Refugee claimants in Hungary and the EU: A statistical overview
• No rest for the weary: A busy summer in Hungarian politics
• The EU says ‘no’ to Orbán’s utility rate cuts
• Reform of the state administration and the new civil servants
• Hungary between 1994 and 1998: The memoirs of Vera and Donald Blinken, Part I
• Clash of cultures and politics in the theatrical world
• “Pope of the Christians” and other gems from Viktor Orbán
• You asked too much, so what was yours is now effectively ours: the case of Munkácsy’s Golgotha
• The European Parliament condemns Hungary’s Orbán government
• The latest Hungarian plan to seal the border: It will be difficult
• The “artistic achievements” of the Orbán regime
• The leader of the Hungarian Roma community under scrutiny
• Hungarian nationalism, Trianon, and the Day of National Cohesion
• Viktor Orbán’s civilian weaklings versus assertive soldiers: El-Sisi and Horthy
• Will the European People’s Party abandon Viktor Orbán? Unlikely
• Viktor Orbán and FIFA’s Sepp Blatter
• Hate campaign against immigrants, rev. 2.0
• The Béla Biszku case
• The end of an Orbán family business?
• The war between the Hungarian government and the NGOs continues
• The last five years of the Orbán government, fact and fiction
• Psychological and sexual pressure at the Benedictine gymnasium in Pannonhalma
• “Son of Saul” and its reception by the Hungarian right
• Fidesz attack on the Hungarian Helsinki Commission and conditions in the Debrecen refugee camp
• Jean-Claude Juncker: “The dictator is coming”
• Fidesz versus Jobbik: Not much difference
• Corruption at the highest level? It looks that way
• Viktor Orbán: “Hungary is a serious country” where gays are patiently tolerated
• Kim Lane Scheppele: Hungary and the State of American Democracy
• Congressmen not at their best: Hearing on U.S.-Hungarian relations
• The Christian, national government’s heart is merciful: Orbán in Strasbourg
• Who are the chosen ones? The use of historical names in today’s Hungary
• Bálint Hóman is rehabilitated
• Some effects of the “reforms” on Hungarian public education
• AMBASSADOR ELENI KOUNALAKIS ON HER YEARS IN HUNGARY, PART III
• Hungary’s latest lobbying effort: Connie Mack IV and Dana Rohrabacher
• Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis on her years in Hungary, Part II
• Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis on her years in Hungary, Part I
• Orbán buries democracy with faint praise
• What went wrong in 1990?
• The shadow of János Kádár’s happiest barrack
• Viktor Orbán the unpredictable
• Romanian-Hungarian relations: Ethnic strife and corruption
• Paks, the European Union, and the Russian threat
• The new media landscape: Magyar Nemzet versus Napi Gazdaság
• Viktor Orbán’s new enemies: large landowners
• Genetic map of Europe and the “Tisza people” of the Hungarian Great Plain
• Viktor Orbán explains what went wrong
• Anna Porter: Buying a Better World, a book review
• Hungarian social scientists protest Viktor Orbán’s “National Consultation”
• Viktor Orbán, a desperate man with dangerous ideas
• Hungarian Supreme Court decided: Segregation is lawful in parochial schools
• Spread of indifference and hate in Hungary
• Miklós Haraszti: The intricacies of translation
• Viktor Orbán will take care of Hungary’s unwanted immigrants
• Resistance to a school closing in Budapest
• Fidesz can’t escape from the shadow of the Quaestor scandal
• Is Fidesz’s soul lost, or is there more to it?
• The right-wing media in turmoil
• Hungarian students demand autonomy of universities
• Fidesz omnipresence in small towns in Hungary
• Jobbik’s program: A tragic future would await Hungary
• Fidesz as an enabler of financial corruption
• Explaining away EU action
• Viktor Orbán’s new infatuation with modernity
• Hungarian mission in the fight against ISIS: Fidesz needed the help of the opposition
• The day after: What happened in the Tapolca by-elections?
• Jobbik won the by-election in Tapolca
• After a seven-year delay Apollo Tyres will open a factory in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s system is already   in ruins
• Viktor Orbán drags Ferenc Gyurcsány onto the podium
• Another poll, another loss for Fidesz ahead of a by-election
• Our man in Moscow: Szilárd Kiss
• It took eight years but apparently the Hungarian police found the murderer
• A Fidesz full-court press in advance of the Veszprém County by-election
• Is Viktor Orbán spying on his closest associates?
• Viktor Orbán feels more at home in Astana than in Brussels
• The Quaestor scandal and football
• The Quaestor story is becoming less transparent despite the release of documents
• Today’s Hungary and the Weimar Republic
• Is Viktor Orbán’s foreign policy Jobbik inspired?
• Whither Jobbik?
• The European Union has had enough: No money for a 110 billion project already underway
• A crime in search of a more coherent cover-up
• Gathering clouds: The opposition parties take a common stand
• Demands for Viktor Orbán’s resignation
• The Quaestor scandal
• Campaign strategies against Jobbik: Tapolca-Ajka
• Viktor Orbán and the European Energy Union
• Kim Lane Scheppele: Hungary without two thirds
• What is behind the Sunday closing of Hungarian retail stores?
• Moderate Fidesz as a bulwark against the Hungarian extreme right?
• Rise of Jobbik and the upcoming by-election in Tapolca-Ajka
• Rally for the New Republic,    March 15, 2015
• Viktor Orbán on freedom and independence
• Civic courage is returning to Hungary
• The manifesto of the Democratic Round Table (DEKA), March 15, 2015
• Strasbourg verdict on disenfranchised churches: the Hungarian government dithers
• Roma petition to the European Commission and the European Parliament
• Euratom, the European Commission, and Paks
• Brussels suspends the current Hungarian advertisement law
• Shady Hungarian wheelers and dealers in Russia
• Reverberations after Lajos Simicska’s revelations about Viktor Orbán
• László Eörsi: The Red Cross Informant
• Viktor Orbán is accused of being an agent for Kádár’s security network
• Viktor Orbán no longer has the full support of his troops in parliament
• House of Fates: Mária Schmidt versus János Lázár
• U.S.-Hungarian rapprochement? I doubt it
• Ten Hungarian banks failed within one year
• The Hungarian government online
• Viktor Orbán: The Hungarian people are by nature politically incorrect
• An Orbán interview about football
• Thanks to all of you
• Corruption in Roma organizations: The case of Flórián Farkas
• Viktor Orbán continues his fight at home and abroad
• What’s happening at the Buda-Cash Group? No one knows
• How to make sure that no doctors will remain in Hungary?
• The man behind the Russian-Hungarian rapprochement: Ernő Keskeny
• Hungary’s modern Machiavelli: Gábor G. Fodor, the political thinker
• The beginning of the end? Huge electoral victory in Veszprém
• Modern Hungarian Newspeak
• Viktor Orbán’s dangerous games
• Polak, Węgier — dwa bratanki / Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát–Not at the moment
• Raul Rothblatt: Albert Wass at the Hungarian House in New York
• The Putin visit a day after
• Vladimir Putin in Budapest
• Recent Hungarian by-elections
• American rapprochement with Viktor Orbán’s Hungary?
• Panhandling
• Viktor Orbán goes to Kiev, M. André Goodfriend returns to Washington
• Elemental rearrangement on the Hungarian right?
• Russia, Hungary, and the Hungarian minority in Ukraine
• Putin’s visit: “Strategic impetus” for future Russian-Hungarian relations?
• Mária Schmidt is on the warpath again
• János Kornai: Hungary’s U-turn
• The Hungarian mafia war
• A different kind of media war: Lajos Simicska versus Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz parliamentary delegation show the way
• The Orbán government is at a loss: Which way to turn?
• Merkel-Orbán conversations: Serious differences of opinion
• Angela Merkel in Budapest
• Thoughts in advance of the German and Russian visits to Budapest
• Sándor Kerekes: Letter to Angela Merkel
• Ferenc Gyurcsány on the Merkel and Putin visits to Budapest
• The Orbán government and RTL Group: a cease-fire?
• Signs of internal divisions within the Hungarian governing party
• Viktor Orbán and the Jewish war heroes of World War I
• An attempt at character assassination but to what end?
• Democratic Round Table’s Manifesto to the People of Hungary
• The European Anti-Fraud Office is a bit slow: The case of the Heart of Budapest project
• Why did Viktor Orbán visit Brussels today?
• Zoltán Kovács, Viktor Orbán’s international spokesman in Brussels
• The “miracle piano” and the Hungarian entrepreneurial spirit
• The newly appointed Hungarian ambassador to the U.S. hangs in limbo
• Two narratives of the impending Budapest visit of Angela Merkel
• The Hungarian government on immigration and emigration
• FYI: A documentary on Putin sheds light on Orbán’s Hungary
• Viktor Orbán no longer needs the oligarchs’ right-wing media
• Property swindle in Budapest’s District V
• Billions diverted from Hungarian state coffers to natural gas broker
• Hungarian Christian Democrats and freedom of the press
• What evil forces lurk behind the Hungarian demonstrations?
• Viktor Orbán: “No significant minority among ourselves”
• “In defense of gymnasiums”: A cry for sanity
• The tragedy in France and Viktor Orbán’s political agenda against immigration
• The reorganization of Hungarian state television: An attack on RTL Klub and HírTV
• In Viktor Orbán’s absence anti-regime forces are gathering
• The Hungarian people are not thrilled with Orbán’s Russia policy
• Vladimir Putin’s impending visit to Budapest
• Corruption at the University of Szeged
• The Orbán government’s latest “unorthodox solution”: A unique toll system
• Attila József’s “My Homeland” translated by Sándor Kerekes
• Yada yada. And next?
• What now? Civilians versus party leaders
• Happy New Year to all the readers of Hungarian Spectrum
• József Debreczeni on the Roma question
• Fidesz insiders think Orbán’s days are numbered
• The plight of the Hungarian Roma: Writings of a Catholic bishop and a Roma activist
• The world according to László Kövér
• Hungary and Europe through Russian eyes
• Happy holidays to one and all
• The United States as enemy #1
• János Lázár: “We want to remain Hungarians!”
• The good name of Sándor Pintér, minister of the interior
• The sorry state of Hungarian foreign policy
• How do European Union funds end up in the hands of the Orbán family?
• Dissension in Fidesz: Is Viktor Orbán’s leadership safe?
• The first state-owned Hungarian bank is already in trouble
• Viktor Orbán bet on the wrong horse
• Hungary as a “field of operation”
• Viktor Orbán and László Kövér on the warpath against Washington
• Lőrinc Mészáros, friend of Viktor Orbán, is a financial genius
• Corruption in District V under Antal Rogán, #3 man in the Orbán regime
• Viktor Orbán on a communication offensive: trying to undo the damage
• Public patience is coming to an end: What can Viktor Orbán do? Not much
• Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are in trouble: Record loss of popularity
• The first sign of opposition in the Fidesz parliamentary caucus: No compulsory urine tests
• Is Viktor Orbán playing chicken?
• Interview with Kim Scheppele, Part II: From the Tavares Report to the Electoral System
• Szabolcs Kerék-Bárczy’s open letter to American-Hungarian leaders
• The latest rants of Viktor Orbán: Where will all this lead?
• The Hungarian government under domestic and foreign pressure
• John McCain: “A nation that’s on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to a neo-fascist dictator”
• Viktor Orbán’s Eastern Opening initiative is foundering
• Hungary’s pending blue law
• RUDOLF UNGVÁRY ON THE FASCISTOID MUTATION IN TODAY’S HUNGARY, PART II
• Rudolf Ungváry on the fascistoid mutation in today’s Hungary, Part I
• Viktor Orbán crashed the party: the hosts were not pleased
• Sándor Kerekes: Is the Orbán regime fascist? The answer is yes
• Budapest Beacon’s Interview with Eva S. Balogh, Part II
• Zoltán Balog, who is in charge of Roma integration, fights for segregation
• Introducing two young civic leaders: Balázs Nemes and Petra Sára Kiss
• The Hungarian government’s wishful thinking about a change at the U.S. embassy
• The Újpest election: A large gain for the left
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s latest political road map
• Viktor Orbán’s Russian policy is unchanged, at least for the time being
• Budapest Beacon: A conversation with Gábor Halmai on Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Who’s behind the political turbulence in Hungary? Naturally, the United States and the “left-liberals”
• The day of outrage: Yesterday’s demonstrations in Hungary
• The Seehofer-Orbán interview redux: Four questions to Seehofer from Hungary
• Restoring the splendor of the Royal Castle in Budapest
• The G20 summit: Hungarian right-wing newspapers on Vladimir Putin in Brisbane
• German-Hungarian dialogues: Munich and Berlin
• No end to the saga of the Hungarian corruption scandal
• The Hungarian constitution: Interview with Kim Lane Scheppele
• Another “strategic partnership”: This time with Azerbaijan, a model to follow
• Potpourri: shifting public mood, protest vote, continued attack on the U.S.
• Another look at the Hungarian-Swiss connection
• Mysterious trips of Viktor Orbán and János Lázár to Switzerland
• The Orbán government’s vision of academe: A huge engineering school
• Trampling on individual freedom: First the Internet, now education
• Budapest Beacon’s interview with Eva S. Balogh
• The Orbán government presses on
• The tax chief Ildikó Vida versus the Hungarian government: Who is lying? Most likely both
• No Internet tax but attacks on the United States continue
• International pressure on Viktor Orbán: Russia, Putin, and Gazprom
• Viktor Orbán: The brave prime minister who is not a communist
• Sunday shopping? The Christian Democrats against the multinational chains
• The internet tax is only postponed: it most likely will be called something else
• Two prominent Hungarians: Interviews with Charles Gati and Miklós Haraszti
• The corrupt Hungarian tax authority
• A watershed? Did Hungarian society awaken as some people think?
• “This is just the beginning”: An even larger demonstration against the regime today
• Viktor Orbán is not only illiterate when it comes to computers. What about diplomacy?
• Tamás Gomperz: Yankees, come here!
• Possible trajectories for Hungary with or without Viktor Orbán
• After some hesitation Hungary declares war on the U.S. and the EU
• The Hungarian government turns up the heat on the NGOs
• Viktor Orbán picks another fight with the West, this time over the Southern Stream
• Hungarian foreign minister in Washington: A stalemate
• American-Hungarian relations are crumbling
• The state of the churches in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary: An exchange of views
• Mária Schmidt’s latest opus: The love story
• Ten Hungarian businessmen and government officials can never enter the United States
• Gazprom stores some of its natural gas in Hungarian facilities
• The Hungarian socialists at a crossroads
• The future of MSZP: The Ferenc Deák Circle versus József Tóbiás
• Post mortem: election results of the Hungarian municipal elections
• The election season is over in Hungary
• Hungarian public discourse: Gloves off
• Viktor Orbán on the world stage and at home
• The Budapest elections and politics of the democratic opposition
• Gábor Demszky on the illegitimacy of the Orbán regime and on civil disobedience
• Péter Szijjártó’s foreign policy ideas
• Tibor Navracsics is not recommended to be commissioner of education, culture, youth and citizenship
• Bálint Magyar’s post-communist mafia state: front men, transaction brokers, and gatekeepers
• Bálint Magyar’s “systemic characteristics of the post-communist mafia state”
• Assistant Undersecretary Victoria Nuland’s keynote address at the 2014 U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum
• Péter Szijjártó’s new foreign policy and the U.S. response to the Hungarian challenge to democracy
• Lajos Bokros: Is he a liberal-conservative?
• A new opposition candidate for mayor of Budapest, a rift in MSZP
• The statement of the Forum for Religious Freedom Europe on Hungary’s law on the churches
• Viktor Orbán and Christian democracy
• Péter Szijjártó bought a luxurious house from gifts and loans
• Hungary stops supplying gas to Ukraine and makes its own gas deal with Russia
• The Hungarian right’s latest: The Soros-Clinton-Obama axis
• Barack Obama on the threat to civil society in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Hungary
• An optimistic prediction: The Orbán regime’s inevitable demise
• The Budapest campaign: Lajos Bokros as challenger of István Tarlós?
• Hungary has a new “featherweight” foreign minister, a man after Viktor Orbán’s heart
• The new Fidesz target: László Székely, Hungary’s ombudsman
• Hungary through American eyes
• Fidesz at a far-right conference in Moscow
• Hungarian citizenship offers escape route from troubled Ukraine
• The lucrative citizenship business: Hungarian passports for Russians and Ukrainians
• House cleaning at Magyar Nemzet
• Culture and education in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Rape at a freshman camp in Hungary
• Barroso in Budapest
• Gusztáv Zoltai, former COO of Mazsihisz, is now János Lázár’s adviser on Jewish affairs
• An unexpected turn of events: Tibor Navracsics has to be satisfied with the post of education, culture, and youth
• Retreat or another “peacock dance” by Viktor Orbán?
• Assault on the Ökotárs Foundation in charge of disbursement of the Norwegian Civic Fund
• The long shadow of Viktor Orbán: Tibor Navracsics’s nomination as EU commissioner
• Hungarian microcosm: municipal elections in Felcsút
• Viktor Orbán at the 2014 NATO Summit
• Hungary and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis
• Ferenc Gyurcsány: Angels or Demons
• Learning history in Orbán’s Hungary
• The Hungarian far right and Russia
• Procreation and pensions in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán and the gathering storm clouds in the East
• Hungary is in a difficult diplomatic bind: The “Orbán doctrine” is dead
• The Hungarian central bank goes on a buying binge
• Did Viktor Orbán backpedal in his address to Hungarian ambassadors?
• Reactions to Viktor Orbán’s speech to the ambassadors
• Viktor Orbán’s foreign policy doctrine: only national interest
• Jobbik-Fidesz cooperation: The case of the Western Hungarian Uprising of 1921
• A balancing act: a decoration for Imre Kertész and another for his right-wing foe
• August 22, 1914
• Francis Fukuyama on Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Another strange Orbán speech at the 25th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic
• Mária Schmidt exploits Imre Kertész to bolster her own historical revisionism
• The Orbán government bestows the Order of St. Stephen on Imre Kertész
• The man behind Viktor Orbán’s political ideas: Gyula Tellér
• “We’re not Nazis, but …”: Human Rights First report on Hungary and Greece
• Viktor Orbán between Russia and Brussels
• Scandal surrounding the purchase of E.ON gas company
• Attacks on Charles Gati and the American media
• The sorry state of the Hungarian opposition: The Budapest municipal elections
• Federation of Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) versus Mária Schmidt
• Krisztián Ungváry: One terror regime is taboo, while the other is market kitsch
• American-Hungarian relations: Chargé d’affaires Andre Goodfriend
• Charles Gati: “The Mask Is Off”
• Anti-American voices after the reactions to Viktor Orbán’s speech
• A week in Hungary: worrisome developments
• A medieval macabre show: Hungarian Jobbik member symbolically hangs Israeli leaders
• The Hungarian news agency in the service of the state
• No free and plural media in Hungary? The government’s answer to Neelie Kroes
• Magyar Nemzet and the Orbán government: A falling out?
• Goodbye to democracy: An interview with Gáspár Miklós Tamás about Viktor Orbán’s speech
• Viktor Orbán’s speech at the XXV Bálványos Free Summer University and Youth Camp, July 26, 2014, Băile Tuşnad (Tusnádfürdő)
• Viktor Orbán showed his cards and thus his critics can do the same
• The reception of Viktor Orbán’s speech in the West and in Romania
• Domestic reactions to Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal democracy”
• NGOs as threats to the building of Orbán Viktor’s “illiberal democracy”
• Viktor Orbán’s Hungary: “An illiberal democracy”
• A shameful verdict: The Court finds the new Budapest electoral law consitutional
• The aftershocks of the Szentmihályi Szabó affair
• Despite Viktor Orbán’s best efforts, Hungarian football is not a success story
• The other side of Péter Szentmihályi Szabó: An ardent communist
• A raging anti-Semite will be Hungary’s ambassador in Rome
• A historical exchange: Mária Schmidt versus Mária M. Kovács
• László Bogdán, the Roma miracle worker of Cserdi
• Another austerity program introduced in Hungary, but they call it a “freeze”
• Orbán’s son liberated himself. When will the Hungarian people do the same?
• An “abomination”: the Orbán government refuses to recognize Gábor Iványi’s church
• The government media on OSCE’s final report on the Hungarian elections
• Tomorrow’s vote to elect Jean-Claude Juncker president of the European Union
• Mária Schmidt: Another person who chose the wrong profession
• Sándor Szakály: Portrait of a historian
• The asphalt tax: Lajos Simicska is not taking it lying down
• Viktor Orbán is up to something and that something is nothing good
• Viktor Orbán and his oligarchs: Impending power struggle?
• Corruption and anthrax: The sorry end of a “city farm”
• Johanna Laakso: Brave new linguistics
• The Miskolc dilemma: Arguments on the other side
• The Miskolc dilemma: The left’s tainted candidate for mayor
• Banks versus the Hungarian government
• Changes in the Hungarian foreign ministry and the growth of the third Orbán government
• The European Commission is not happy with Hungary’s economic performance
• More resolute foes of Orbán’s plans for Hungary come from unexpected quarters: Luxembourg and Norway
• Gavrilo Princip and Serbian nationalism
• Undisguised anti-Semitism of Viktor Orbán’s chief ideologue, the historian Mária Schmidt
• Even a former communist security agent can become a member of the Orbán government
• Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Jean-Claude Juncker’s victory
• Another corrupt official: The minister of national development and his “businesses”
• The city of Miskolc is ready to pay its Roma inhabitants to leave town
• Plans to destroy independent Hungarian civil society: The Norway Fund
• Hungarian thread in the Polish scandal
• The state of the Hungarian left and Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Zoltán Tibori Szabó: Holocaust Memorial in Cluj/Kolozsvár
• The war is on: The Hungarian government versus the media
• Hungary’s new friend: Turkmenistan’s dictator
• Breaking news: U.S. Statement on Intimidation of Civil Society and Media in Hungary
• János Lázár’s fight with Budapest and Norway
• What happened on June 16, 1989? Another falsification of history?
• A new Hungarian government and a new interim foreign minister
• Sándor Kerekes: Hungarian democracy in a nutshell*
• István Tisza and the National Party of Work revived
• The war is on: RTL Klub and the Orbán government
• Still about March 19, 1944: A call against the falsification of Hungarian history
• Mária Schmidt’s revisionist history of World War II and the Holocaust. Part II
• Mária Schmidt’s revisionist history of World War II and the Holocaust. Part I
• Hungarian immigrants in London and environs
• How to renovate a science lab in Hungary using EU money
• Is Deutsche Telekom lending a helping hand to the Orbán government to suppress media freedom?
• An exchange of letters between U.S. congressmen and Viktor Orbán
• The attack on the media is backfiring
• Renewed attack on the Hungarian media: freedom of the press is at stake
• The latest scandal: The Orbán government and the Norway Fund
• Imre Kerényi and Lajos Kósa: boorishness and prejudice in Orbán’s Hungary
• Waiting for the Kazakh dictator
• How to make sure that Fidesz wins the municipal election in Budapest?
• The exit of Attila Mesterházy, chairman of the Hungarian socialists
• “Coup from above”? Anti-federalist forces in the European Council
• János Kornai: Threatening dangers
• Regrouping on the left: MSZP on the brink
• European Parliamentary Election in Hungary: Final Results
• Viktor Orbán is getting ready for a fight
• Hungarian university students and politics
• United States of Europe?
• Miklós Horthy and Viktor Orbán are kindred souls, at least according to George Friedman
• A critique of a political analysis on Hungary by Stratfor’s George Friedman
• Evidence is presented in the Jobbik espionage case
• Young Jobbik and Fidesz sympathizers have a great deal in common
• A short note on the new format of Hungarian Spectrum
• A Russian spy allegedly found in Jobbik’s European parliamentary delegation
• No retreat: Viktor Orbán socks it to Ukraine
• How not to win friends and influence people: Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s speech in parliament, May 10, 2014
• László Székely, the new ombudsman
• Nora Berend: Monuments and Memory
• An exceptional Roma village and the situation elsewhere
• They cannot wait for the net—a call for donations, by József Barát
• Hungary and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
• Barack Obama’s letter to Viktor Orbán: The original and the Hungarian summary
• Skinheads here, skinheads there
• The opening session of the new Hungarian parliament
• Two controversial Jobbik appointments: Tamás Sneider and Dóra Dúró
• How can the American black locust become a “Hungaricum”? Just ask Fidesz
• Fast track hospital care for “VIP” patients
• The tenth anniversary: Hungary and the European Union
• Viktor Orbán shapes the Holocaust Memorial Year
• Viktor Orbán pontificates on 1944
• Dissonant government voices on the Hungarian Holocaust
• Training skilled workers and teaching foreign languages in Hungary
• Openly racist opinion of a Hungarian judge
• The end of an internationally known organic demonstration farm and school?
• Historian Zoltán Ripp’s analysis of the Hungarian election
• New infringement procedures: “pálinka” and big box stores
• Budapest municipal election: MSZP-LMP deal?
• Week-long demonstration in Budapest was not in vain
• The Hungarian far right today and in the 1930s
• István Hiller on restructuring the Hungarian Socialist Party
• Ildikó Lendvai’s “Plan B” as a solution to the ills of Hungarian politics
• Viktor Orbán’s private stadium is completed: “The resurrection of Hungarian football”
• Hungarian history textbooks under scrutiny
• Days of protest, but the “Nazi” monument will stand in Budapest
• “European God” and other atrocities in a Hungarian textbook
• Soul searching in the Hungarian Socialist Party
• Jobbik and the Russian connection: The role of Béla Kovács
• Serious questions about Fidesz’s election results
• Viktor Orbán against the world as fear spreads in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán is the real danger, not the Hungarian far right
• The political bickering has begun
• András Schweitzer: Factors that made Hungary a borderline democracy (and are likely to stay)
• The Hungarian election: A day after
• A quick look at the results of the Hungarian election
• Final polls before the Hungarian election tomorrow
• The Orbáns and Hungarian gentleman farmers
• Orbán’s clan is plundering the state coffers: The world is taking notice
• Notes on a confused pre-election analysis of Hungarian politics
• Attila Ara-Kovács and Bálint Magyar: Can we learn from history?
• Magyar Nemzet and Népszava on the weekend demonstrations
• The Seuso treasure, the Hungarian police, and a lost court case
• Gábor Demszky as mayor of Budapest: Metro 4
• Readers’ polls
• Viktor Orbán on the campaign trail
• Thousands of fraudulent endorsements and still no investigation
• OSCE’s interim report on the parliamentary elections of 2014
• Attestations of electoral fraud in Hungary
• Helmut Kohl’s letter to Viktor Orbán
• Let’s purify the language: Orbán’s new institute
• In a tight spot: Orbán’s Hungary between Russia and the European Union
• Randolph L. Braham: The assault on the historical memory of the Holocaust
• The strange story of Gábor Simon and Tamás Welsz
• Memorial Conference in Washington and Gergely Prőhle, representative of the Hungarian government
• “Tappanch”: Viktor Orbán’s phony wars
• Attila Ara-Kovács and Bálint Magyar: On the periphery of empires–a buffer zone of the EU?
• Viktor Szigetvári’s mistaken notions about current Hungarian politics
• Is Viktor Orbán a coward?
• Another nationalist and anti-foreign tirade from Viktor Orbán
• György Matolcsy and Goldman Sachs: November 17, 2011
• A brief summary of the Russian-Hungarian agreement on the Paks nuclear power plant
• The European Union addresses rule of law issues: Hungary is center stage
• János Zuschlag and the bogus parties: What is Fidesz doing?
• The Hungarian government supports school segregation for Roma
• Paul A. Shapiro’s remarks on The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide
• Another election trick: Bogus parties; Kim Scheppele’s “Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 5″
• A brief history of the subcarpathian region of Ukraine; Kim Scheppele’s “Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 4″
• Every second voter wants change but Fidesz may win super majority again; Kim Scheppele’s “Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 3″
• New details on the Russian-Hungarian agreement on Paks; Kim Scheppele’s “Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 2″
• Viktor Orbán finally spoke against Vladimir Putin; Kim Scheppele’s “Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 1”
• An unusual debate on the new Hungarian nuclear plant: János Lázár and Benedek Jávor
• Ukrainian-Hungarian relations during the Orbán years
• Statement of the former anti-communist Democratic Opposition on the Russian military threat against Ukraine
• Homosexuality and same-sex marriage in Hungary
• The Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year: One step forward, two steps backward
• Russia, Hungary, and the European Union: Paks documents released
• Viktor Orbán’s (temporary) retreat in his battle with Ferenc Gyurcsány?
• It was a mistake to release documents relating to Gyurcsány’s speech of May 26, 2006
• Mária Vásárhelyi on the “media octopus” in Hungary
• Sloppy Hungarian journalism misleads the public
• Difficult passage: Orbán’s ferrying between Moscow and Brussels
• Viktor Orbán finally sent an answer, but the Jewish community’s boycott is still on
• The Ukrainian crisis: Hungary between Russia and the West
• Viktor Orbán’s “state of the nation” speech
• Two Hungarian films about homosexuality: Falsehood and the truth
• Israel and the international Jewish community want deeds, not words
• Perhaps there is a ray of light: Unity has large reserves
• “Secrets revealed”: Memoirs about the financial attacks on Hungary
• Bálint Magyar: The Hungarian post-communist mafia state (from a critique of the government to a critique of the system)*
• Viktor Orbán feels at home in Iran, Azerbaijan, and China
• International pressure but there could be a way out for Viktor Orbán
• The Budapest Holocaust Memorial Center publishes its “professional communiqué”
• Mazsihisz has decided to boycott; a portrait of Viktor Orbán by Miklós Jancsó
• The siege of Budapest: Neo-Nazis remember the “breakthrough” of February 11, 1945
• Fair election? Not a chance
• Hungarian parliament voted on Paks; the Jewish-government dialogue is stalled
• Another corruption case and the news of the day
• Corruption and conflict of interest in Hungarian politics
• Hungarians are not happy with the Putin-Orbán agreement on the Paks reactors
• Two short statements about the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year
• A footnote to McCain’s visit and Viktor Orbán’s letter to John Lukacs
• Mária Vásárhelyi: An open letter to Mrs. Annette Lantos
• American-Hungarian relations and John McCain’s visit to Budapest
• István Deák: A monument of self-pity and self-justification
• There are some who stand up and refuse to be part of the Hungarian Holocaust charade
• MSZP’s campaign kickoff: Mesterházy in the limelight
• Fidesz accuses Mesterházy of wanting to execute Fidesz oligarchs
• John Lukacs on Paks
• Randolph L. Braham’s open letter
• Free and fair election? It doesn’t look promising
• Krisztián Ungváry on the memorial to the German occupation of Hungary: “The Living Horror”
• Attack on the United States and friendship with “tolerant” Russia
• The Orbán government’s war on multiple fronts
• Colleen Bell, US ambassador designate to Hungary, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• One statue comes, another one goes. Maybe
• The last straw: Either true depiction of the Hungarian Holocaust or Jewish boycott
• What happened in Kamenets-Podolskii in 1941?
• Sándor Szakály, the new head of the Veritas Historical Institute, is embarking on rewriting Hungarian history
• The Russian view of Paks; the right-wing rant on the united opposition
• Viktor Orbán looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and was reassured
• Political accord at home and Russian-Hungarian understanding abroad
• Russian-Hungarian agreement concerning atomic energy: What will Putin and Orbán sign tomorrow?
• Neo-Nazi/Jobbik programs on Duna TV: The Orbán government has no objection
• The chroniclers of the age of Viktor Orbán
• The Hungarian Holocaust Year and the reaction of Jewish organizations
• Some musings on Hungarian politics today
• The hatchets are buried: Mesterházy-Bajnai-Gyurcsány is one team
• A new political coalition in Hungary? Let’s hope so!
• Charles Gati: Hungary before the election–Interview
• Nora Berend: The antisemite question in Hungary
• What do sugar distribution and drag racing have in common? A lot
• German-Hungarian cooperation in the destruction of the Hungarian Jewry
• The end of Hungarian sovereignty on March 19, 1944?
• Happy New Year!
• The Hungarian Reformed Church and the extreme right
• “House of Fates”: What does it mean?
• Cases of domestic violence in Hungary: November-December 2013
• The poor in the Budapest Hilton
• Conversations with a Pole in the United States
• András Bruck’s new encounter with George Orwell’s 1984
• Happy holidays to one and all
• A hearty laugh for Christmas Eve
• Mária Vásárhelyi: The Renaissance of Homo Kádáricus
• “What shall I call you?”* The political system of Viktor Orbán
• The risk of political Christianity: An interview with Tamás Fabiny, Lutheran bishop
• The plight of a Hungarian whistleblower
• The current Hungarian political scene: Three polls full of question marks
• Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the best of friends
• László Toroczkai: Quite a career from the siege of MTV to the mayor of a small town
• Péter Szijjártó’s trip to Israel
• Senator Ben Cardin: Human Rights in Hungary
• Yet another lunacy: Law on teaching foreign languages
• József Antall twenty years later
• Russia and the European Union on a collision course over the South Stream pipeline
• Fidesz, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office, and a Hungarian neo-Nazi site
• Gábor Demszky: Samizdat, civil disobedience, the Helsinki process and freedom of the media
• Ruling of the European Court of Human Rights: The case of Krisztián Ungváry v. Hungary
• Karl Pfeifer: Interview with Paul A. Shapiro in Vienna
• Viktor Orbán and the magnificence of Hungarians
• No good players, no spectators but more and more stadiums
• Political interference with the Hungarian judiciary
• PISA 2012: No gold star for Hungarian education
• The Fót election doesn’t bode well for the future
• The Democratic Coalition’s campaign platform
• The Hungarian far right’s attack on the United States
• Ferenc Kumin again demands correction of a non-existent gross distortion
• Inequality in the Hungarian electoral law
• The Fidesz robber barons. Part III: The Orbán family’s enrichment 1998-2002
• Kim Lane Scheppele: What Can the European Commission Do When Member States Violate Basic Principles of the European Union? The Case for Systemic Infringement Actions
• A Hungarian butcher’s fabulous art collection
• Lending a helping hand: How sick is Hungarian society?
• The Fidesz robber barons. Part II
• The Fidesz robber barons. Part I
• The fate of the Radnóti statue in Abda
• H. David Baer: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”: Continuing problems with Hungary’s law on religion
• Two polls, two different results, and disappointing opposition politicians
• Tax fraud scandal in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán just announced his government’s motto: Glory to God alone
• Unintended consequences of expanding Hungarian citizenship
• Hungarian Octopus: The Post-Communist Mafia State
• Ákos Kertész granted political asylum in Canada
• Feminism in Hungary
• A new name has surfaced in connection with the Roma serial murder case
• The Orbán government and the international Jewish community
• Veritas Historical Research Institute: State ordered history
• Hungarian attitude toward alcohol consumption
• American-Hungarian relations hit rock bottom
• New American ambassador in Budapest
• “Unless blood flows”: Human Rights Watch’s report on Hungary
• Rearrangement on the Hungarian left? It looks like it
• Political controversy over the role of Regent Miklós Horthy (1920-1944)
• Potpourri: Forex loans, the duped MSZP, and outraged patriots in Stockholm
• Official announcements on the fate of the Jews in Pécs, 1944
• Viktor Orbán’s self image: A worthy successor to István Bethlen
• Ferenc Kumin’s encounter with Ágnes Heller
• In praise of Fidesz’s Machiavellian talents
• A fake tape snowballing into punitive legislation against journalists
• The Great March of the Szeklers
• Growing troubles in opposition circles
• Lex Biszku: Charge of homicide and high treason but can it be proven?
• Victor Orbán and twentieth-century Hungarian history
• Viktor Orbán’s shameful speech on October 23
• Two speeches, one message: Gábor Kuncze and Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Opposition voters demand unity
• Exodus from Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• The Hungarian “foreign language examination factory”
• New poll on Hungarian anti-Semitism
• European Police College in Budapest? Not likely at the moment
• The smoking gun? A video of Fidesz money being given to voters in Baja
• Viktor Orbán’s state visit in India
• The political reverberations after the Hungarian football fiasco
• Not only democracy but the free market economy is in danger in Hungary
• Back to the Middle Ages: Viktor Orbán at the Christian Democratic International
• The 8-1 loss in Amsterdam and its possible political consequences
• Was Ferenc Kölcsey, author of the Hungarian national anthem, gay?
• Orbán in Great Britain: Spreading the gospel
• How solid is the Bajnai-Mesterházy pact?
• Police excess in Hungary: Two recent stories
• Baja revisited: a tense campaign
• Outrageous police reaction to crimes against the Hungarian Roma
• When Viktor Orbán is honest: The Hungarian constitution is not a liberal document
• Possible criminal activities of some Hungarian politicians?
• MOL’s CEO, the Croatian courts, and Viktor Orbán
• Corrupt student leaders, corrupt politicians
• A surprising verdict: the Gypsies are the racists, not the members of the Hungarian Guard
• The plight of the homeless in Hungary
• A statue of Viktor Orbán is toppled
• Viktor Orbán’s bolshevik speech at Fidesz’s XXV Congress
• New Hungarian “language strategies”
• A show trial in Orbán’s Hungary
• Another political appointee as U.S. ambassador to Hungary?
• The latest Medián poll: Left-liberal voters want a united front
• Electoral fraud in Baja: More details emerge
• Voting fraud in Baja? Most likely
• Hungarians’ attitude toward the disabled: Not in my backyard
• The “ethics” of a car accident
• Young Hungarians are disillusioned and feel helpless
• Attila Mesterházy and Gordon Bajnai on the campaign trail
• Ferenc Gyurcsány the campaigner in his element
• The price of collecting signatures of the quick and the dead
• The troubled tobacco shop concessions
• Randolph L. Braham: The Reinterment and Political Rehabilitation of Miklós Horthy
• Együtt 2014-PM’s puzzling message
• The new ethics textbook for Hungarian fifth graders
• Sexism in the Hungarian parliament
• The factious Hungarian opposition
• László Kövér’s ideas about the ideal democracy: Governance by decree
• Football and its fans: The Romanian-Hungarian game
• Joint effort of the Hungarian state and the churches to keep some schools segregated
• What does the Demokratikus Koalíció stand for?
• Viktor Orbán’s daughter is getting married
• Two visits to Felcsút, the capital of Orbanistan
• The current state of the Hungarian opposition: Negotiations between MSZP and DK
• Electoral mathematics: The Demokratikus Koalíció’s position
• The first day of school in Hungary
• The growing influence of the Catholic Church in Hungary
• Fake religiosity rules the day in Hungary
• Ferenc Gyurcsány will not accept alms: New rounds of negotiations?
• Agreement is reached between MSZP and Együtt 2014
• Fact checking the foreign press in Hungary
• In the last minute, Hungary’s teachers received a modest raise
• Gordon Bajnai blinked: He is ready to accept the thirty-five districts allotted to Együtt 2014
• László Bartus on Gordon Bajnai’s road to failure
• Beginning of the end? Hungarian opposition in disarray
• “Stephen, the King” 30 years later
• Register as Roma, vote by default for Fidesz
• The latest nationalization plan: Dunaferr
• The Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen, King of Hungary
• Two Hungarian national holidays: August 20 and March 15
• István Hegedűs: “Mafia state and the party”
• “Is Hungary being ruined by a scoundrel or a fanatic?” A debate
• Brussels’ suspension of payments for most of Hungary’s cohesion projects
• “Budapest is different”: The Republikon Institute’s latest poll
• The new Hungarian media tsar: Mónika Karas
• Massive police “inspection” in Budapest on Sunday
• Recent Hungarian diplomatic blunders: Romania and the Czech Republic
• MSZP’s new strategy: Public education reform
• MSZP’s new strategy: Frontal attack on Viktor Orbán and his government
• Some citizens are more equal than others
• The new Hungarian ombudsman: László Székely
• Water and politics: The case of the Roma in Ózd
• From a fair verdict to an unfounded accusation: Fidesz and the Roma murders
• The Orbán family’s enrichment with a little government help
• Viktor Orbán on football
• János Kornai and Marxism
• Ildikó Lendvai’s thoughts on the election campaign
• Sólyom Hungarian Airways
• The sources of Viktor Orbán’s ideas on the world economy
• Hungarian domestic attitudes toward voting rights of outsiders
• Absentee ballots from Romania may give rise to electoral fraud
• Viktor Orbán: Hungary, Hungarians, and the world
• Viktor Orbán at Tusnádfürdő/Baile Tusnad
• Viktor Orbán and his fellow oligarchs
• “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” at a Fidesz-sponsored gathering in Slovakia
• Sándor Csányi’s press conference
• Online learning opportunities for Hungarians
• How much is how much when it comes to teachers’ salaries in Hungary
• Mass exodus from villages in Baranya County, Hungary
• Politics and finances: Orbán’s Hungary today
• The first draft of a “party program” of the Hungarian democratic opposition. Part II
• The first draft of a “party program” of the Hungarian democratic opposition. Part I
• Viktor Orbán, the economist and the foreign policy expert
• A day in Hungary: From a small village to the meeting of ambassadors
• Fidesz’s success and the public’s ignorance of democratic principles
• Linguistic misunderstandings in a Hungarian context
• Listening to Hungarian government propaganda: MTV and MR
• Increasing poverty in Hungary
• Hungarian public opinion on Viktor Orbán’s “war of independence”
• The director of a new research institute on the history of the regime change in Hungary
• The Hungarian economy as reflected in the World Bank’s 2012 GNI per capita figures
• Viktor Orbán and the 4000-year-old history of marriage between one man and one woman
• Hungary and the European Union
• Viktor Orbán the defiant
• Former Gyurcsány officials convicted of espionage
• Viktor Orbán’s answer to the Tavares report
• Kim Lane Scheppele: In praise of the Tavares Report
• The European Parliament’s debate on Hungary
• The zeal of Viktor Orbán: Where will it lead?
• Viktor Orbán’s letters to the Hungarian people: An expensive habit
• Monitoring versus “close scrutiny” of Hungary in PACE
• Odds and ends from Hungary: A court case, a new poll, and a successful country
• Nationalization Hungarian style
• Attila Mesterházy and Ferenc Gyurcsány outline their plans for the restoration of Hungarian democracy
• Gyula Horn’s reminiscences of his role in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• Gyula Horn and the opening of Austro-Hungarian border, September 10, 1989
• Negotiations between MSZP and Együtt 2014 began while left of center public figures gather in Szárszó
• Viviane Reding is the target in the Hungarian “war of independence”
• A severe blow to the Orbán government: The Tavares report is accepted by the LIBE Commission
• Bálint Magyar: Viktor Orbán’s post-communist mafia state, Part III
• Bálint Magyar: Viktor Orbán’s post-communist mafia state, Part II
• Bálint Magyar: Viktor Orbán’s post-communist mafia state, Part I
• Another austerity package: The eleventh since the Orbán government took office
• Interview with Endre Hann of Medián: Intricacies of poll taking
• Dissension in the already weak Hungarian opposition
• How to rebuild democracy in Hungary? According to some, not by compromise with Fidesz
• Holding a mirror to the Hungarian public: The key to Viktor Orbán’s success
• The new guiding light of Hungarian higher education: István Klinghammer
• Reading the “conservative” Magyar Demokrata
• Viktor Orbán on the levees: A political victory
• Kriszta D. Tóth’s encounter with Hungarian state television under Fidesz rule
• Rui Tavares: Letter to the citizens of Hungary and his fellow European citizens
• Gordon Bajnai versus Attila Mesterházy: The latest opinion poll
• A debate about life after Viktor Orbán (April-June, 2011)
• Coming to an understanding with Viktor Orbán and his followers?
• Hungarian nationals’ attacks on the LIBE draft report of Rui Tavares
• A short history lesson about 1918-1919 in Hungary
• Rudolf Ungváry: “The turpitude of media regulation in Hungary,”¹ translated by S.K.
• A divided Hungary: Two images of Viktor Orbán
• Report of the Venice Commission on the Hungarian Constitution: End of the dance of the peacock?
• Another blunder by Fidesz-Jobbik: Naming a street after the anti-Semite Cécile Tormay
• Some good news for the Orbán government, but there are still many questions
• A public opinion survey about János Kádár and the Kádár regime from 1989
• Hungarian Football Championship: Another scandal
• Two views on today’s Hungary: Al Jazeera and Dokuworld 2013 (Germany)
• George Orwell in Budapest: The new surveillance law
• Friendly advice: “Leave culture alone! Not your thing”
• “National literature” in the making in Hungary
• Hungarian Spectrum 2007-2013: 2,156 days and 2,000 posts
• Hungarian move toward the Arab world and a possible assault on the United States
• Viktor Orbán’s “Eastern Opening”: Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
• Orbán’s Hungary and Lukashenko’s Belarus
• Another Friday morning “non-threat” from Viktor Orbán
• Orbán’s attack on Angela Merkel and Germany
• Hungarian physicians will also own tobacconist shops
• The end of the Hungarian recession?
• The childish games of a would-be dictator: The case of Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s speech at the meeting of the Association of Christian Intelligentsia
• The House of Árpád and nationalism
• “Should Europe intervene in our affairs?”
• Zsófia Mihancsik: “Zero tolerance”–then let’s begin!
• Postscript to the World Jewish Congress in Budapest by Karl Pfeifer
• A Portuguese view of Viktor Orbán and his dictatorial tendencies
• Viktor Orbán’s bad billing: From the World Jewish Congress to the European Parliament
• Matriculation and politics: A couple of conspiracy theories
• Breaking news: The World Jewish Congress’s Plenary Assembly in Budapest
• Public opinion research in the Kádár regime
• Getting ready for the World Jewish Congress in Budapest: What is the message?
• A Hungarian member of parliament, domestic violence, and the blind komondor
• Listening to Viktor Orbán in action
• Greed might be the undoing of Viktor Orbán and his regime
• The tobacco concessions and their aftermath: Further restrictions on transparency
• Iván Bächer: “The educated tobacconist”
• The Orbán government and the “Jewish question” by Karl Pfeifer
• The Hungarian opposition has awakened. What comes next?
• Looking backward: Historical complexity and political simplification
• Hungary’s “national tobacco shops.” Who are the happy recipients of the concessions?
• Monitoring and an infringement procedure seem the likely fate of Hungary
• A new political bomb: Did the Gyurcsány government spy on Fidesz politicians?
• The Orbán regime and Noam Chomsky’s “ten commandments”
• Viktor Orbán’s ongoing fight with the European Union. It’s time to end it!
• Two days, two speeches: Viktor Orbán on a very wrong track
• Jostling for power within the Hungarian opposition: Együtt 2014
• The right-wing media on the parliamentary debate on Hungary in Strasbourg
• How did the Hungarian government fare in the European Parliament today?
• Viktor Orbán: “We are not nice guys from the mainstream”
• Fidesz, the European People’s Party, and the Alliance of Reformers and Conservatives
• Accused of stealing a chainsaw, a few hours later he was beaten to death by two Hungarian policemen
• After twenty years of democracy, Hungary is heading back to its authoritarian past
• Europe fights back: Viktor Orbán may be in real trouble this time
• March for Life and the anti-Semitic Patriotic Bikers of Hungary
• The latest opinion polls and the popularity of leading Hungarian politicians
• The Orbán government’s favorite pastime: Crossing swords with everyone
• Jobbik is not a neo-Nazi party. At least not according to a Hungarian judge
• Vicious attacks on critics of the Orbán government: George Kopits and Kim Scheppele
• My visit to the Center for European Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s State of the Nation speech 2013, Part III
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s State of the Nation speech 2013, Part II
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s State of the Nation speech 2013, Part I
• Introducing religion as part of the curriculum in Hungarian public schools
• Individual initiative versus centralized bureaucracy: The Hungarian case
• The 2011 Hungarian census: Some startling changes in the last ten years
• Is Viktor Orbán afraid? Yes, although he doesn’t have much to fear now
• From the Don River to the proclamation of western artists and scientists
• Hungary’s ruling party and its concept of democracy
• Whom should Viktor Orbán fear? Not his former self but the rebellious students
• The newest judge of the Hungarian constitutional court: A man jointly supported by Fidesz and Jobbik
• General government retreat in Hungary? I doubt it
• Endre Ady: “Let us go back to Asia” (1902)
• Hungarian attitude toward losing: The Romanian-Hungarian football game
• Testimony on the situation of Roma in Hungary by the European Roma Rights Centre
• The Orbán government’s swift move toward the far right
• Hungarian media reaction to the U.S. Helsinki Commission’s hearing on Hungary
• Statements and testimonies at the United States Helsinki Commission’s hearing on Hungary
• Opening statement of Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission
• Statement of Brent Hartley, U.S. Department of State
• Testimony of József Szájer, member of the European Parliament
• Testimony of Sylvana Habdank-Kołaczkowska, Freedom House
• The testimony of Paul A. Shapiro, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Testimony of H. David Baer, Texan Lutheran University, for the Record
• Testimony of Frank Koszorus, Jr., American Hungarian Federation, for the record
• Video of the U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing on Hungary,    March 19, 2013
• Kim Lane Scheppele’s Testimony at the Helsinki Commission Hearing on Hungary: Full text
• Announcement: Helsinki Commission hearing on Hungary,    March 19, 2013
• MSZP Chairman Attila Mesterházy’s speech on the state of Hungary
• Snowstorm in Hungary: Government incompetence reigns
• Metamorphosis of Viktor Orbán?
• Official prizes for far-right neo-Nazis and members of the lunatic fringe in Hungary
• Hungarian president will sign the objectionable amendments while Viktor Orbán seems cocksure in Brussels
• President János Áder’s visit to Berlin and the “stormy meetings” with German politicians
• Conservative critics of the Orbán regime and its “new” constitution
• In the opinion of many, Hungary is no longer a democracy
• Football hooligans as Fidesz’s police force
• The significance of today’s demonstration in the Hungarian capital
• Maiming the Hungarian constitution: Is the Orbán government willing to pay the price?
• Ulrike Lunacek, European PM, sues Zsolt Bayer
• Viktor Orbán’s grandiose plans might be thwarted by Strasbourg and Brussels
• Viktor Orbán’s Russian roulette
• Orbán’s chief adviser Árpád Habony and his encounter with the law
• A Hungarian high school textbook on the numerus clausus of 1920
• “For you only death is the proper punishment.” Zsolt Bayer on Jews and liberals
• No surprise: György Matolcsy will be the new chairman of the Hungarian National Bank
• A Hungarian pope? Does Péter Erdő have a chance?
• An open letter to Tamás Fellegi
• Testimony of Tamás Fellegi at Hearing on “Anti-­Semitism: A Growing Threat”
• The embattled Hungarian Constitutional Court fights back
• “Reforming” higher education, Orbán style
• The new Hungarian education system: The model was France
• Viktor Orbán’s twenty-year plan: empty promises
• How women are being treated in the Hungarian parliament
• The failure of Hungarian democracy: The universities
• Jobbik breeding grounds: The student associations in Hungarian universities
• Is the Demokratikus Koalíció a liberal party?
• The Hungarian Socialist Party’s critique of the latest amendments to Hungary’s new constitution
• The Orbán regime’s search for historical antecedents
• The new parliamentary guards in action
• The Hungarian scene: From economics to parochial schools
• “Democracy and Human Rights at Stake in Hungary”: The Report of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee
• Petition concerning the divisive party politics at the Hungarian Embassy in Canada
• An appeal from the staff of Klubrádió
• Viktor Orbán’s revolution devours its own children: the case of László L. Simon
• No conspiracy, no crime, only dereliction of duty: “The Siege of the Television Station”
• How did less money become more? Viktor Orbán’s historic success in Brussels
• “The beginning of a new era” as Gordon Bajnai’s E14 envisions it
• The Roma of Hungary: A Canadian View, by Judy Young Drache
• The LMP parliamentary delegation is no more
• “The war of the flags”: Diplomatic spat over Szekler territorial autonomy
• Fidesz pow-wow in Gyula, February 5-7, 2013
• “Talking heads” of Hungary
• Hungarians and their attitude toward their own history
• An appeal for contribution to keep galamus.hu alive
• September 17-19, 2006: Viktor Orbán’s reactions to the street violence
• An analysis of Russian-Hungarian relations in perspective
• Viktor Orbán in Moscow: “Putin’s new little kitten”?
• Another round of talks between Viktor Orbán and José Manuel Barroso
• IMF delegation’s report on the economic health of Hungary in 2012
• Attila Mesterházy’s official visit to Washington
• LMP’s rebels left the party: Who will be the winner of this game?
• Where is András Schiffer leading LMP? Straight into the arms of Fidesz
• The Hungarian government’s newest business venture: Installing an e-toll system
• “Canada will not send its refugees to Miskolc” says the Hungarian mayor
• MSZP campaign at home and abroad. Part II
• Psychology and politics: Two studies
• MSZP campaign at home and abroad. Part I
• Teachers and their students: the Hungarian situation
• Khazars, Hungarians, and Judaism
• Another “surveillance” case is being hatched by Fidesz
• The Hagyó case continues: The testimony of Éva H.
• To fight for your country to your last breath: Is it a heroic act?
• From Trianon to the Don River: Historical revisionism?
• The true colors of Fidesz became obvious this weekend
• János Kornai: Breaking Promises: The Hungarian Experience, Part II
• János Kornai: Breaking Promises: The Hungarian Experience, Part I
• Demokratikus Koalíció’s party program
• “The trial of the year” began: Sukoró
• Fidesz and Zsolt Bayer: A close connection
• What will happen to Hungarian health care?
• Fidesz Roma strategy, from Balog to Bayer
• Fidesz reaction to political setback: Continued falsehoods
• An analysis of the Hungarian Constitutional Court’s ruling on voter registration
• Hungarian voter registration found unconstitutional
• Culture, censorship, and the Hungarian National Theater
• Negotiations between Hungarian democratic parties and civic organizations began
• Happy New Year!
• The new Parliamentary Guard: What will Fidesz use it for?
• The siege of the Hungarian Television Station, September 18, 2006
• Most of the “temporary provisions” of the Hungarian Constitution are scrapped by the Constitutional Court
• Fidesz prepares the battleground, July 22-September 17, 2006
• Who leaked Ferenc Gyurcsány’s speech in Balatonőszöd? Part II
• Happy holidays!
• Who leaked Ferenc Gyurcsány’s speech in Balatonőszöd?
• László Kövér and democracy in Hungary
• The right-wing media on the student movement
• A press release by Klubrádió, the only opposition station in Hungary
• Karl Pfeifer: Péter Dániel and László Grespik
• Statement of Senator Benjamin Cardin on the floor of the Senate, December 20, 2012
• Hungarian students get excellent marks from the adults
• Echoes of Hungary’s communist past
• An isolated Hungarian government, growing political unrest
• Kulturkampf is called “Kulturkampf” in Hungarian too
• How to run a successful campaign: Fidesz strategy
• From “non-tuition” to no tuition in Hungary?
• The Calvinist minister who is in charge of education, culture, health, and the Roma
• Tuition fee of 2006: Viktor Orbán sacrificed the interest of Hungary for political gain
• Not only the university students are unhappy in Hungary
• Very unhappy university students in Hungary
• Ladies and gentlemen, get to the table! Hungarian electoral strategies
• “There Was Once…”: A documentary about the Jewish community of Kalocsa, Hungary
• The master and his student: Collaboration at a Hungarian university
• Hungarian university “non-tuition” will be the highest in Europe
• The new Hungarian electoral law: An appeal of the Democratic Opposition to organizations of the European Union
• A distorted past haunts Hungarians
• Anti-fascist demonstration in Hungary: Speech of Antal Rogán (Fidesz)
• Hungarian anti-fascist demonstration: Speech of Gordon Bajnai
• Anti-fascist demonstration in Hungary
• How long will the Media Council play games with Klubrádió?
• Hungarian antisemitism: How to combat it?
• Protests against racism and threats to media freedom in Hungary
• There may be a united democratic force after all in 2014
• Hungarian far-right party claims that Jews are a threat to national security
• The lowest common denominator: What do the opposition groups want?
• A challenge for the Hungarian opposition: Can they cooperate?
• Orbán’s election campaign has already begun
• Hungarian academic standards: Analysis of a textbook
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Hungary’s oil company, a possible bribery charge in Croatia
• Moral and political confusion
• Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, the modern St. Sebastian
• LMP’s András Schiffer won, but did he?
• With or without Gordon Bajnai: LMP’s dilemma
• Self-delusion and reality in Hungary
• Gordon Bajnai’s Együtt 2014 and the MSZP
• Troubles ahead: registration, constitutionality, and mathematics
• Viktor Orbán is planning to stay: The new electoral law
• Growing Hungarian fascism? Similarities with Ceaușescu’s Romania?
• Viktor Orbán’s playground: State financing of football clubs
• Two elections in Hungary*: 1922 and 2012
• The latest Orbán-Matolcsy scheme may lead to a Hungarian default
• A pamphlet against Gordon Bajnai: Another Magyar Vizsla?
• Brussels’ pressure is off for a while, but there might be political dangers facing the Orbán government
• The forcibly retired judges won in Luxembourg, but did they?
• The embattled Géza Jeszenszky and Viktor Orbán
• The Jeszenszky affair
• Report on “Sandy” from our town
• “Adventures of Misi, the squirrel”: An interesting interpretation
• Ignác Romsics on István Bethlen and Kuno Klebelsberg: the 1920s
• Crowds, the IMF, and the Hungarian budget: a follow-up
• The Orbán government’s trademark: Constant lies, big and small
• Money talks; it also marches
• October 23: The speech of Viktor Orbán about revolution and freedom from speculators
• A great speech: Gordon Bajnai, the hope of the Hungarian opposition
• Celebrations of October 23, 1956? Hardly
• Hungarian opposition groups: LMP, 4K, and Milla
• Trianon and the Holocaust: An exchange between Ignác Romsics and István Földesi
• Bad news all around: Economic and political troubles brewing in Hungary
• Take it away from your enemies and give it to your friends: The Hungarian agricultural law
• “Matolcsy’s poison kills slowly”: The latest austerity measures prevent economic growth
• Slovakia v. Hungary at the European Court of Justice:            The Sólyom case
• The cooperation of the Hungarian opposition in action
• “The Summer My Father Died” by Yudit Kiss: A book review
• The pitfalls of being loquacious: Viktor Orbán’s interview with Handelsblatt
• Hungarian disunity a barrier to a political solution
• Viktor Orbán meets Angela Merkel: What really happened?
• “National policy”: Hungarian government’s strategy concerning Hungarian minorities in the Carpathian Basin
• Generous gifts with government assistance to Viktor Orbán’s football academy
• Fact-checking Christopher Caldwell’s article on Viktor Orbán
• How democratic will voter registration be in Hungary? Not at all
• Hungary’s balancing act: An austerity program that is called something else
• The latest Hungarian austerity program and the teachers
• The newest propaganda initiative: The “National Library”
• The Orbán regime: Mind control and banning free thought
• Slovak-Hungarian relations: A new stab at reconciliation?
• Viktor Orbán’s wise friends in Lakitelek (September 27, 1987)
• Fighting the Devil: Viktor Orbán’s speech on St. Michael’s Day
• Charles Gati’s keynote address at the U.S.-Central European Strategy Forum, September 20, 2012
• MSZP’s vision of the future: “The Left, Hope, and Strength”
• Gordon Bajnai versus Attila Mesterházy: Two views, two strategies
• The Gripen affair redux
• A botched-up show trial in Hungary
• Milla and LMP: Double curse of current Hungarian politics
• Hungarian women and politics
• Men’s role in Hungarian society: Marching in the wrong direction
• Hungary’s “alternative suggestions” to the IMF and the European Union
• The overwhelming presence of Fidesz and Viktor Orbán on the airwaves
• Hungarian immigrants in Great Britain
• The new electoral law and the dilemma of the democratic opposition
• Violence in words and deeds: All-pervasive cultural trait in Hungary
• The state of teaching history in Hungary
• Boycott the 2014 Hungarian elections?
• Buying opposition candidates? Making a mockery of the next elections
• Barroso’s vision of a United Europe and Hungary
• New opposition communication is shaping up in Hungary
• Fidesz macho in parliament: Women’s calling is to produce babies
• Ferenc Gyurcsány and the hunger strike: Media reactions
• Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi has become irrelevant and should resign
• Azeri-Hungarian futsal and how to act dumb
• After the first lie, here is the second: It seems that Viktor Orbán can’t help himself
• The non-existent IMF/EU demands in exchange for a Hungarian loan
• A sinking ship? Is it time for Orbán’s Hungary to turn westward?
• By-elections in Hódmezővásárhely: Fewer Fidesz, more MSZP votes in a “Fidesz citadel”
• What really happened? Azeri-Hungarian negotiations
• A footnote to the post on the chronology of the Azeri-Hungarian negotiations
• A possible chronology of the Azeri-Hungarian negotiations
• Armenia breaks off diplomatic relations with Hungary:       The Ramil Safarov affair
• The IMF and Hungary, the socialist swines, and Lázár’s faux pas
• When words become action: the case of Vilmos Hanti
• Another new Hungarian economic plan that will hit the dust
• TEK and “freeing” the Hungarian hostages in Syria
• Another “mad” speech by Viktor Orbán
• Neo-Nazi groups in Hungary: Guards of the Carpathian Homeland, National Front, and others
• Police incompetence in Hungary
• A close reading of István Csurka’s antisemitic play, The Sixth Coffin
• Another speech: Viktor Orbán’s state of mind
• A “friendly” football match: Hungary-Israel 1-1
• Another St. Stephen’s Day in Hungary
• Neo-Nazis in Cegléd, Hungary
• A Fidesz MP’s encounter with the Treaty of Trianon and revisionism
• A statistical analysis of individual voting districts by        Gordon Bajnai’s foundation
• A Hungarian neo-Nazi’s threat to democratically minded Hungarians abroad
• Viktor Orbán: A collective portrait
• István Csurka’s anti-Semitic play in the Új Színház
• Hungary’s new school system: A built-in failure
• David Baer: The fate of Hungary’s deregistered churches
• The right and the left on Hungarian achievements in London
• Governmental incompetence and the economy in today’s Hungary
• Tribal meeting of the Turanians with Hungarian government support
• The Milla: “Dilettantes, spare me!”
• Mayoral election in Hódmezővásárhely, a Fidesz stronghold
• The Hungarian socialist-liberal party leaders on a unified party
• Reactions to László Sólyom’s speech in Aszófő
• László Sólyom’s newest assessment of the Hungarian political situation
• Here is a tip for the Hungarian police and Viktor Orbán
• A Jewish anti-Semite: The case of Csanád Szegedi
• A Christian Democrat on Orbán Viktor and his government
• Pension reform in Hungary? The disappearance of stolen goods
• Gábor Vona’s letter to Congressman Joseph Crowley
• Voter registration in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán at Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tuşnad
• Paul Lendvai: Hungary Between Democracy and Authoritarianism:   A book review
• Hungarian business leader criticizes Viktor Orbán’s economic policy
• Statement by the IMF Mission to Hungary
• The future of LMP: An interview with Benedek Jávor
• Viktor Orbán on higher education: An outrage
• The hunters and the hunted: Kuruc.info’s list of anti-Hungarians
• Kuruc.info’s Béla Varga of California and Mór
• The Hungarian far right and the national security forces:      The case of Zoltán Bosnyák
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s resolve against Viktor Orbán and his regime
• The case against Ferenc Gyurcsány: A total failure
• Hungarian-IMF/EU negotiations: News blackout? Not really
• Kim Lane Scheppele: Let them Eat Principles!
• A war criminal in Budapest: The case of László Csatáry
• The beginnings of one of the oligarchs: Zsolt Nyerges
• Charles Gati on the Orbán government and conspiracy theories
• Symbiotic relationship: the Orbán government and         Lajos Simicska’s Közgép
• Klubrádió can begin its fight anew for the 92.9 MHz frequency
• Senator Ben Cardin’s statement on Hungary (Congressional Record–Senate)
• Constitutional renewal must be done by Hungarians for Hungarians
• László Kövér’s interview: On national survival and struggle (II)
• László Kövér’s interview: On foreign threat and charge of    anti-Semitism (I)
• Hungary: Arrogance and ignorance by Karl Pfeifer
• A fierce debate about János Kádár and 1956
• Media freedom in Hungary: Klubrádió again in the limelight
• Negotiations are still far away between Hungary          and the IMF and the EU
• László Bartus: A couple of slaps in the face (Népszava)
• Fidesz, Jobbik, antisemitism
• The failure of Gyula Budai’s investigations of corruption
• Two elections in Hungary
• Hungaricums are not completely Hungarian
• New obstacles to negotiations with the IMF?
• Another “peacock dance”?
• “National bonding” the Hungarian way
• “The trap of silence or the aftermath of the Nyirő affair”
• Church and state: public versus parochial schools
• Israeli-Hungarian rift: Is someone lying?
• Introducing László L. Simon, poet, politician, viticulturist
• Land grabbing Fidesz style
• Letters back and forth: Will they change the course of events in Hungary?
• The Orbán government doesn’t heed the warnings
• Strangling the media in Hungary: How it works
• Reforming the language: “Hungarians abroad”
• Elie Wiesel’s letter to László Kövér
• Viktor Orbán in his own words: An interview with Die Presse
• The fate of the Hungarian bank law: Total confusion
• Horthy cult and irredentist yearnings?
• New Hungarian football stadiums: They are of strategic importance
• Anti-Semitism in Hungary and hopeful signs to combat it
• The Council of Europe and Hungary
• Over the weekend developments in Hungarian politics
• Ágnes Vadai’s interpellation in the Hungarian parliament,     May 29, 2012
• Fidesz internal politics and the Romanian Hungarian parties
• Economic and political fairy tales at home and abroad
• The Orbán government’s answer to Freedom House
• Freedom House’s Nations in Transit 2012:            Hungary as part of the “Fragile Frontier”
• A nation at war within
• József Nyirő’s prose
• Avoiding a financial storm on Monday: Final vote of the Bank Bill is postponed
• A return to Viktor Orbán’s hour-long speech : What is the message?
• The “Flame” malware: Hungary as a target?
• The Janus-faced Viktor Orbán
• Fidesz and MSZP: neck and neck
• War against the whole world?
• Far-right propaganda on Hungarian public television
• Cultural isolation of the Hungarian right and Hungary’s political quarantine
• János Kádár (May 26, 1912 – July 6, 1989)
• Removal of another thorn in the Orbán government’s side: The Lex Éger
• The honeymoon is over: Romanian-Hungarian relations
• The abortion pill in Hungary
• The war of the statues
• If you want a happy retirement, start producing babies
• Dávid Turbucz, Horthy Miklós: A book review
• Fidesz and Lajos Simicska’s Közgép
• The Hungarian minister of justice and the independent judiciary
• The latest polls: Fidesz is losing but MSZP is not gaining voters
• The story of Ferenc Gyurcsány’s senior paper
• Hungary’s image and the case of Klubrádió
• The Orbán government’s PR effort in the United States
• The third “conservative” writer in the new Hungarian curriculum: József Nyirő
• “Conservative” writers in the curriculum: Dezső Szabó
• From gleaning to the manor house: The Orbán family of Alcsútdoboz-Felcsút
• The python and its victim: The European Union/IMF and Hungary
• A Fidesz politician and history
• The stealth Horthy cult
• “Kulturkampf” in Hungary:The case of Eger
• Ukraine and Hungary: The Tymoshenko affair
• Hungary’s newest strategic partner: Kazakhstan
• Hungary and Russia: The Southern Stream and Nabucco
• Freedom House’s verdict on the freedom of the press and the case of the Hungarian news agency
• Deals with communist China are okay, the red star isn’t
• “Budapest Analyses”: Fidesz propaganda, 2002-2009
• The Orbán government and the Hungarian Kennel Club
• Agricultural subsidies and the Fidesz oligarchs
• Party strife in Jobbik
• Viktor Orbán didn’t give up: Again talks about a Chinese-Hungarian alliance
• The end of the “Hungarian Watergate”?
• After the Orbán-Barroso talk: Did Orbán win?
• Orbán-Barroso meeting: A breakthrough?
• János Kornai’s encounter with István Széchenyi (2)
• János Kornai’s encounter with István Széchenyi (1)
• Church and state in Hungary
• Hungary’s plumbers (TEK), the case of the red star, and Klubrádió
• The never ending story of Sukoró
• Where do European Union subsidies land: The role of Lajos Simicska
• The new president of Hungary: János Áder
• A conference on democracy in post-communist Central Europe at Yale University
• The statue of Attila József is still not settled
• Fidesz and the Hungarian neo-Nazis
• It’s seems to be final: there will be a financial transaction tax in Hungary
• Hungary and the IMF negotiations: An impasse?
• Viktor Orbán, Jobbik, and anti-Semitism
• Land lease scandal in Felcsút
• The young Ferenc Gyurcsány in Pécs
• Some common themes in Hungarian nationalist ideology
• Zsófia Mihancsik: Two old-new presidents, Mesterházy and Sólyom (2)
• Zsófia Mihancsik: Two old-new presidents, Mesterházy and Sólyom (1)
• Politics and the airwaves: The case of Sláger and Danubius
• Two scandalous events in the Hungarian Parliament
• Fidesz and the scientific community: Trouble ahead
• Damage control: After President Pál Schmitt’s resignation
• Serious cracks in the Hungarian Right
• Orbán is playing with words again: This time it is “inviolable”
• The possible influence of the Schmitt affair on the right-wing intellectual elite
• A few new facts about Pál Schmitt’s dissertation
• Further developments in the Schmitt case
• The Hungarian president plagiarized but it was the university’s fault
• Lex DK: How the Fidesz majority manipulates the law
• A disturbing interview with András Schiffer
• The Hungarian right and the bogus Solzhenitsyn quotation
• Grandfathers and grandsons: Rewriting the communist past
• The vindictive Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán
• The Venice Commission on Hungarian law on religion and legal status of churches
• The Venice Commission’s trials and tribulations with the Orbán government
• Commission on National Remembrance
• National security documents, the Hungarian case
• Canadians launch protest against the Hungarian hate parades
• Klubrádió and the Hungarian judiciary: Two cases, two wins
• An excellent article on Viktor Orbán
• Polish visitors to the Hungarian national holiday in support of Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán’s speech: Declaration of war on Europe
• The state of the Hungarian economy: Ecofin decision and OECD criticism
• Civil rights in Hungary by S.K.
• The Orbán government and corruption
• Professor Kim Scheppele’s article and lecture
• A new demonstration and so what?
• The Orbán government’s ideas about job creation
• Viktor Orbán, who can teach Europe a thing or two
• An exchange of letters between a Lutheran theologian and the Archbishop of Veszprém
• No negotiations with the IMF for a while: The European Commission is not satisfied
• The new Hungarian curriculum: History (II)
• The new Hungarian curriculum: Hungarian language and literature (I)
• Writer Ákos Kertész, 80, is seeking political asylum in Canada
• A week in the life of Viktor Orbán
• Fidesz governing style: no muss, no fuss!
• György Bolgár’s lecture at the Media Intergroup of the European Parliament
• A Hungarian Catholic archbishop looks at the “modern” world
• The new Hungarian schools and their products
• Fidesz, the tobacco monopoly, and the tobacco industry’s lobby
• Fidesz’s attitude toward the communist past
• Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s answer to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s letter
• New attacks on Klubrádió and György Bolgár
• Immediate government reactions to the European Commission’s recommendation
• European Commission proposes suspending funds to Hungary
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s speech about Hungary, the saddest barrack
• János Kornai: Centralization and the capitalist market economy
• “Only the Wind”: Hungarian success at the Berlin International Film Festival
• Two footnotes: Hungarian education and the burial of István Csurka
• Hungarian higher education and the Orbán government
• The European Parliament’s resolution concerning Hungarian democracy
• Fidesz style: Ulrike Lunacek versus Zsolt Bayer
• The fate of Pál Schmitt, president of Hungary
• Viktor Orbán and Tibor Navracsics in Brussels and in Budapest: Two interviews
• Jobbik’s foreign relations expert: Márton Gyöngyösi
• Hungarian political scientists as spin doctors: the case of Gábor Török
• The Hungarian case in the European Parliament
• Viktor Orbán claims that he managed to avert his forcible removal
• Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University): Constitutional Nostalgia
• Let’s save Galamus!
• Viktor Orbán’s “State of the Country” speech
• Hungarian propaganda, this time with foreign help
• How obituaries are written in Hungary: The death of István Csurka
• István Csurka (1934-2012)
• Hungarians and the European Union
• János Lázár, Fidesz politician and speculator
• MALÉV: The sad story of Hungary’s national airline
• János Kornai on centralization and decentralization. Part II
• János Kornai on centralization and decentralization. Part I
• Jobbik’s Gábor Vona tells all: they are the enemies of democracy
• Renewed international effort at turning Hungary around and the reaction of Viktor Orbán
• History lesson: Hungarians and the outbreak of World War I
• A few words about the current state of the Hungarian media
• Reality check: IMF’s yearly assessment and the EU media advisory panel’s findings
• Orbán’s Canossa?
• A political discussion: Ferenc Gyurcsány and his liberal critics
• Viktor Orbán misled his followers: What now?
• Hungarians and plagiarism
• The law on paper and in practice in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Viktor Orbán in Strasbourg: A day after
• Accelerated infringement proceedings against Hungary: The first phase
• European Commission’s infringement proceedings and Viktor Orbán’s “bravery”
• The continuing saga of President Pál Schmitt’s doctoral thesis
• Gordon Bajnai : “Republic, reconciliation, and recovery” Part III
• The rise and fall of LMP’s András Schiffer
• Viktor Orbán’s reaction to the non-negotiations in Washington
• Hungarian president’s alleged plagiarism: Quite a piece of detective work
• Viktor Orbán’s “freedom fight” might end in total defeat
• Gordon Bajnai : “Republic, reconciliation, and recovery” Part II
• Gordon Bajnai : “Republic, reconciliation, and recovery” Part I
• Possible successors to Viktor Orbán: János Martonyi?
• Who is Viktor Orbán?
• Guessing game: how long can Viktor Orbán last?
• The latest Hungarian trick: “precautionary standby credit line”
• The beginning of the end: The final days of Orbán’s Hungary?
• Heroes, kings, saints, and the second founder of the Hungarian state
• New Year’s message by former Hungarian political dissidents
• It will be a happy new year
• The approaching crisis: Viktor Orbán on a collision course
• Neither the markets nor western politicians like Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
• Increasing pressure on the Hungarian government
• Success on top of success: How György Matolcsy sees the situation in Hungary
• The Ministry of National Development and the building of a “national bourgeoisie”
• To celebrate the Christmas Tree Revolution in Hungary
• Is it really a “sad day for democracy” in Hungary? Perhaps not
• S&P’s justification for downgrading the Hungarian sovereign debt and its Hungarian “translation”
• Media freedom in Hungary? The case of Klubrádió
• The Orbán government under fire: Endgame?
• Guided tour to Mohács (Your intrepid tour guide is Viktor Orbán) by S. K.
• Euro-Atlantic assault on the Hungarian government’s undemocratic ways, Part II
• Euro-Atlantic assault on the Hungarian government’s undemocratic ways, Part I
• The IMF, the European Commission, and the U.S. State Department have had enough of the Hungarian government
• Paul Krugman and Kim Lane Scheppele on today’s Hungary
• Christian love and physical punishment of children in today’s Hungary
• The end of the independent judiciary
• Jobbik’s campaign promises are being fulfilled by Fidesz
• American-Hungarian relations: Freedom House and the Helsinki Commission
• American-Hungarian relations: A bumpy road ahead
• Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, the great European statesman
• Tamás Fellegi, minister of national economic development, resigns
• Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian National Bank
• The Orbán family and corruption, Part II
• Hungary is the intercontinental turntable
• Viktor Orbán and a new “speculative attack” on Hungary
• The Orbán family and corruption, Part I
• Corruption in Hungary yesterday and today
• MSZP: Legal successor of former communist parties?
• Viktor Orbán’s vision of the international financial world
• An eyewitness account: October 1956, Part II
• Now Imre Nagy is removed from the Hungarian national pantheon
• Viktor Orbán and the eleven government-friendly economists: Someone is not telling the truth
• The verdict: The new Hungarian electoral law is not democratic
• Adventures in alternative reality: the Hungarian government’s reaction to Moody’s downgrade
• New Hungarian regime, new or not so new decorations
• The Hungarian government party has lost half its voters
• The Hungarian government’s preparatory work for the elimination of the opposition
• Hungarians and poetry: Attila József and his endangered statue
• What did the IMF want from Hungary?
• Defeat in war: Supporters of the Hungarian government try to find explanations
• Hungary’s position vis-à-vis the IMF: It will not be an easy ride
• The Hungarian government and the IMF: Before the markets get carried away
• Cracks in the support of the Hungarian prime minister
• “Plazastop”: Another unorthodox Hungarian move
• A few words about the Hungarian “green party,” LMP
• Rebirth of the Hungarian Socialist Party?
• Will Hungary’s Viktor Orbán fall soon?
• Hungary’s Democratic Coalition and its critics from the right and the left
• After all, the Hungarian prime minister received a warning from Washington
• The budget, the forint, and other problems in Hungary
• Horror: Fourteen pictures to accompany the new Hungarian Basic Laws
• “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”: László Kövér’s vision of Hungary’s future
• Today’s “right” and its antecedents
• Financial meltdown–Gulyás style by György Lázár
• What Hungarian citizens could hear about the eurocrisis from the prime minister
• “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”: Hungarian college students and Rózsa Hoffmann
• Creating ideal Hungarians: The Fidesz-KDNP’s intellectual return to the 1930s
• Stopping time: Back to the Horthy regime (Kossuth Square)
• The ugly side of MSZP, but will it win in the long run?
• The first day of the Hungarian Parliament’s marathon session
• An eyewitness account: October 23, 1956, Part I
• What did the U.S. Ambassador tell Viktor Orbán?
• Whither Hungarian Socialist Party?
• A new group formed: The Canadian-Hungarian Democratic Charter
• Why isn’t Fidesz holding a rally on October 23?
• If there is no bread, a circus will do
• Budapest-Warsaw express: Palikot, Kaczyński, Gyurcsány and Orbán
• Why Hungarians hate politicians and politics: The case of Pécs
• Political “accounting”: The case of Club Aliga
• Viktor Orbán’s Lukashenko-lite policy: The American view
• A brief history of the Hungarian Anti-terrorist Center
• Hungary’s Anti-Terrorist Unit hard at work: Seizing theater props
• The Constitutional Court: Debate on the new law
• “The scandal of the decade”: The mayor of Budapest misjudged the situation
• László Sólyom: “This regime is not constitutional”
• Fidesz and the extreme right: The strange story of a new theater director
• Common front? Not yet but there are signs of it
• Attacks on MDF politicians in and out of the courtroom
• Viktor Orbán in Saudi-Arabia: Wishful thinking and reality
• The strange case of Ibolya Dávid and Hungarian jurisprudence
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s interrogation by the prosecutors
• “One sow, one household”
• “Viktor, if you don’t have a clue, don’t mess around”
• The bill on “public nurturing” is ready to go
• The latest communication from Brussels to Budapest: No extra levy on telecoms
• Where are those mysterious communists?
• Gathering storm in the Hungarian economy
• The long arms of Viktor Orbán: The Balsai Report
• Viktor Orbán’s phobia: Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Imre Kerényi, the brains behind the “Table of the Basic Laws”
• Another kind of “opinion poll” in today’s Hungary
• The flat tax is not so flat anymore
• Will MSZP split? It looks like it
• Hungarian higher education and the question of “tuition”
• Where will Viktor Orbán’s economic policy lead?
• The Emperor has no clothes: The Wikileaks’ Viktor Orbán
• Viktor Orbán faces angry callers
• “Budget for the Protection of the Nation”–2012
• Gyurcsány’s “case”: Not a very solid one in the first place
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s speech in parliament, September 12, 2011
• Viktor Orbán’s “Country Protection Plan” and its aftermath
• Pursuing a quote from the “scribbler” Imre Roboz
• Viktor Orbán’s latest “action plan”
• Pursuing a quote from the “scribbler” Imre Roboz
• A milestone in the dispute between the Herzog heirs and the Hungarian government
• Another financial disaster: Who is the culprit?
• György Matolcsy’s economic ideas in 2008 and 2011
• The Ákos Kertész affair
• Russian-Hungarian relations during the Gyurcsány government: A Hungarian analysis
• About diplomatic correspondence in general
• WikiLeaks: The Americans and Viktor Orbán
• WikiLeaks: The Americans and Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Saint Stephen’s messages and plans
• Criticism from the right: The Orbán-Matolcsy economic policy is a failure
• Civic Control–One Million for a Democratic Society: A call for democracy!
• Language can be tricky: A return to László Kövér’s speech
• Fourth Republic in Hungary?
• Liberal intellectuals and exploring possibilities after Orbán
• A new incredible speech by László Kövér
• About the Hungarian military and its role
• The language of the Hungarian political right
• Learning that very easy English language: Personal experiences
• The Hungarian economic crisis of 2011
• Strange justice: Hungarian prosecutors’ double standards
• István Bibó (August 7, 1911- May 10, 1979)
• The new law on churches and the Church of Scientology
• Rózsa Hoffmann and foreign languages
• A policeman’s vision of Hungary?
• A Hungarian Nazi group: The army of outlaws (Betyársereg) and friends
• Prosecution in Hungary: Two recent “non”-cases
• Members of the Orbán government love to write letters: One wishes they didn’t
• Open letter on the oppression of freedom of religion in Hungary
• Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, in action
• Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, U.S. ambassador to Hungary
• Clumsy attempt at discrediting Paul Lendvai, critic of Viktor Orbán
• How can a government directly and indirectly influence the media? The Hungarian case
• The American ambassador sent a message to the Orbán government
• Viktor Orbán’s advisors: András Lánczi
• That charming fascism, by S. K.
• Hungary’s extreme right: Jobbik
• Aladár Horváth, Roma activist’s meeting with Thomas O. Melia
• The meaning of words in Hungarian politics
• Fidesz is paying Thomas O. Melia back for his help in 1989-1990
• Another American warning but the Hungarian government doesn’t listen
• An informer and his career: Péter Heltai
• Anders Behring Breivik’s Hungarian connections
• The state versus the nation: Viktor Orbán’s speech in Romania
• Hungarian gathering at Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tuşnad: In the name of nationalism
• Joseph K. Grieboski then and now
• The Képíró trial: Indictment and verdict
• The acquittal of Sándor Képíró: The prosecution, the courts, and expert historians
• The espionage case: The state secret is no longer a secret
• The Jobbik candidate won the mayoral elections in Gyöngyöspata
• The militarization of Hungary
• Economic predictions for 2011-2013
• Back to state capitalism?
• Cardinal Laws: Law on Religions and Religious Communities
• Electoral law and the opposition: analyses and discussions a day later
• The new electoral law: LMP’s wake-up call
• How qualified will the new judges in the Hungarian Constitutional Court be?: The case of István Balsai
• News at two Hungarian commercial stations: TV2 and RTL Klub
• Listening to television news at MTV, Duna TV, and ATV
• Senator Benjamin L. Cardin’s statement on the Hungarian situation and what MTI made of it
• Dismissals at the Hungarian public media: MTV, MR, and Duna TV
• A new Catholic school in Kecel: The problem is that it is the only school
• The case against György Szilvásy and the national security chiefs might be of historic importance
• Aladár Horváth in Washington: the Roma issue in perspective
• The Democratic Coalition: A kind of victory
• More and more arrests, most likely on phony charges
• D-Day for the Hungarian media
• Hillary Clinton’s visit to Budapest
• Orbán’s vision of the future: His speech at the Chinese-East European Economic and Business Forum
• Letter of the Democratic Opposition to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
• Charles Gati: Tom Lantos and Hungary
• How qualified will the new judges in the Hungarian Constitutional Court be?:The cases of Péter Szalay andEgon Dienes-Oehm
• Viktor Orbán in the limelight: Wen Jiabao in Budapest
• The Hungarian plan to reduce unemployment
• Forced labor battalions? That’s what they sound like
• The Hungarian Constitution and the Venice Commission
• How qualified will the new judges in the Hungarian Constitutional Court be?: The case of Mária Szívós
• How qualified will the new judges in the Hungarian Constitutional Court be?: The case of Béla Pokol
• MSZP: Still together but barely
• Clowns and gays in Hungary
• Hungary’s sovereign debt: The bogus problem
• Without lawyers the cases can be decided much faster!
• A political initiative of college students–Will it succeed?
• The Tom Lantos Institute: A Hungarian diplomat’s letter to Hillary Clinton
• The Kossuth cult and the Orbán syndrome
• One Million for Democracy–Civic Control Association
• The case of the questionnaire on social issues and the ombudsman
• László Kövér and the Hungarian nation
• Freedom of the media is in peril in Hungary
• The revolution of the clowns
• Optimistic Viktor Orbán amid a worsening political and economic situation
• Trianon and young Hungarian adults
• The Day of National Unity: 131-page-long instruction to teachers
• A Hungarian oligarch: Sándor Demján
• The talk of Hungary: The latest Orbán stories
• Hungary: A very large Potemkin village
• U.S.-Hungarian relations: Tit for tat?
• Romanian-Hungarian relations of late
• Fears of Hungary’s neighbors
• Miklós Horthy: It is time to set things straight (II)
• Miklós Horthy: It is time to set things straight (I)
• Corruption in Hungary is on the rise
• The Hungarian right and artistic taste
• Hungarian state’s stake in MOL (Hungarian Oil and Gas Company)
• Cheating in Hungarian schools and universities
• Rewriting history: The fate of the Holocaust Memorial Center
• Whither MSZP?
• The Orbán government and the Hungarian minority in Romania
• Hungarian education in the good old days
• Collecting more enemies? That cannot be the goal, but then why?
• The growing audacity of the Orbán government
• The Hunvald case: New developments
• An interview with Imre Makowecz, a favorite of Viktor Orbán
• The old guard turns nasty: MSZP and the left-wing media
• First reaction to the Hungarian convergence plan of April 15
• What is the truth? News about Hungary abroad and at home
• Budapest and the Alstom Transport
• Widespread and deep-seated prejudice in Hungary
• Demonstrations: policemen, firefighters, soldiers, and prison guards
• What happened in Hungary in 1989-90? A revolution? Yes!
• Who is guilty of a breach of fiduciary responsibility?
• Back to school: The Fidesz government’s educational philosophy
• A new consultation: This time on social issues
• Still a duel: Viktor Orbán versus Ferenc Gyurcsány
• Hungary versus Hungarian Republic (Magyarország v. Magyar Köztársaság)
• Babes in arms: LMP’s encounter with Viktor Orbán
• The Hungarian Socialist Party at a crossroads
• Richard Field’s encounter with Hungarian politics
• The Hungarian government and the outside world
• An interview with Jerrold Post in Budapest
• What’s wrong with the Hungarian police?
• The first day of the “new country”
• More about Hungarian education
• A few thoughts about education
• The Orbán government and the Roma issue
• Chinese-Hungarian relations: An overview
• How much can we trust the new politicized Hungarian News Agency (MTI)?
• Further concerns over the new Hungarian constitution
• The new Hungarian constitution: Reverberations
• Hungary has a new constitution
• Austerity program in Hungary: In dribs and drabs
• Hungary sent its convergence program to Brussels
• The Hungarian judiciary hits back but it is most likely too late
• The Hungarian Catholic Church and charges of pedophilia
• Return to the “Hungarian Watergate”
• Divided opposition: Fidesz can be the only winner
• Growing emigration?
• Refusing to face the past
• Show trials under way?
• The next victim: the judiciary system
• The long arms of the Hungarian government
• A letter to Viktor Orbán: An Austrian in Hungary who isn’t afraid
• The Hungarian media law is still on the table
• Why Viktor Orbán doesn’t, and why Hungary does need a constitution by S.K.
• Fidesz ignorance, cynicism, and crassness: a few examples
• The Balla murder case
• Why does Viktor Orbán need a new constitution?
• The new mayor of Budapest
• The trial begins: Serial murders of Gypsies
• Szálasi memorial and the need for a Hungarian Ku Klux Klan
• Hungary and the Euro-Plus Pact
• “National consultation” in Miskolc
• Fidesz and Orbán found wanting
• The far right is very active and the government is silent
• Viktor Orbán is not a favorite of the West
• Viktor Orbán is not a favorite of the West
• One doesn’t say “no” to the Hungarian government
• János Lázár at crossroads
• Dark clouds on the Hungarian sky
• Memories of the summer of 1944
• Viktor Orbán and Libya
• Hard times ahead for the Hungarian government
• The causes of the low Hungarian employment figure
• The Hungarian national holiday: March 15, 2011
• More serious problems with the new Hungarian constitution
• The first draft of the new Hungarian constitution, Part III
• The first draft of the new Hungarian constitution, Part II
• The first draft of the new Hungarian constitution, Part I
• András Nyerges: Color Separation
• The Venice Commission and the new Hungarian constitution
• The Hungarian government and the National Bank
• The story of Hungarian indebtedness
• Viktor Orbán and the Arab world
• Total confusion everywhere, but let’s just talk about education
• Renewed activities of the Hungarian far right
• “National consultation”: Questions on the new Hungarian constitution
• The newest plan named after a former finance minister and prime minister
• Hungary and the paradox of the charlatan. Part III by S.K.
• Viktor Orbán and the Sándor Palace
• Hungary’s rotating presidency and the Franco-German plan of closer cooperation
• A real dip in Fidesz support: Medián
• Verbal encounter on Facebook about the national debt
• A new subcommittee: criminal politicians and the sovereign debt?
• A run-down building in Moscow and Russian-Hungarian relations
• Kulturkampf?
• Hungary and the paradox of the charlatan. Part II by S.K.
• Still about Ferenc Gyurcsány
• A glimpse into the inner workings of a Hungarian ministry
• Ferenc Gyurcsány outlined his program
• Another attack on the rule of law: To nullify certain crimes
• That nasty, nasty budget is not Matolcsy’s strong point
• International reputation of Fidesz: Now anti-Semitism
• A brief history of the new Hungarian constitution
• Whose constitution?
• Conference in Washington: “Hungary: A second change of the system?”
• Negative economic signs but generally upbeat mood
• “The State of the Union” Hungarian style
• HUNGARY AND THE EUROZONE
• SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF
• THE IMF ON THE HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY AND MATOLCSY’S ANSWER
• HUNGARIAN MEDIA LAWS, 1938-1939 AND 2011
• END RUNS AROUND THE LAW IN HUNGARY?
• No let-up in the case of the Hungarian philosophers
• The Hungarian Socialist Party and Ferenc Gyurcsány
• The Hungarian Academy and its institutes
• A new opinion poll about the media law
• Hungarian foreign policy in the wake of World War I
• Historical maps of Hungary
• The road to Trianon, 1848-1918
• Council of Europe: Debate on the functioning of democracy in Hungary
• The Hungarian government under siege from many quarters
• Filtering the news in Hungary?
• About the Association of Young Christian Democrats
• Viktor Orbán, Facebook, and truthfulness
• Hungary in the western media
• The Hungarian prime minister in Strasbourg: A day later
• Orbán and the European Parliament
• Interpretations of Orbán’s “reforms”
• Quickly, about the extraordinary meeting of LIBE
• Orbán and his men: possible cabinet changes
• The Hungarian carpet scandal in Brussels: Bad luck or something else?
• Two pictures from last night’s demonstration
• Not restrictions but reorganization: Orbán’s austerity program
• The Hungarian informer network and the fencers
• István Éger, the beleaguered president of the Hungarian Medical Association
• Young Hungarian conservatives are disappointed
• Zsófia Mihancsik: What is the answer, dear Hungarians?
• Viktor Orbán’s pearls of wisdom
• Hungarian spring cleaning: The philosophers and all the others
• János Kornai’s stock taking of Hungarian politics and economics
• Hungary assumes EU presidency as Orbán remains defiant
• Zsolt Bayer vents against Hungarian Jews and the foreign press
• Was Viktor Orbán behind the coup attempt on October 23, 2006?
• The day after: The protest is not subsiding
• “We are Europe”: Official New Year’s Eve party
• The new Hungarian Media Authority cuts its teeth on moral issues
• Happy New Year to All
• The proposal governing the media became law
• Chinese financing of Hungarian projects and sovereign debt
• Viktor Orbán’s views on the media law
• Hungary in the eyes of the concerned outsider, by S.K.
• Self-censorship at MTI
• Wishing everybody happy holidays
• Some historical perspectives on freedom of speech
• The pressure on the Hungarian government continues
• Quite a day: Serious warnings for Hungary
• The Hungarian media law is passed
• The newest opinion poll: noticeable Fidesz loss
• The second plan to put Ferenc Gyurcsány into jail just failed
• The newest outrage: Decision was made to destroy the archives of the secret service
• Two assessments of Hungarian politics and economics
• Something happened in Hungary: The latest opinion polls
• Viktor Orbán in Slovakia
• Stiffening attitudes in the Hungarian media
• Why do Hungarians tolerate the anti-democratic measures of the current government?
• The tanks are coming, the tanks are coming: not Russian but Hungarian
• The Orbán government doesn’t spare its old allies
• Fidesz-Jobbik relationship at close quarters
• Flight of Hungarian money?
• PISA, not the tower but educational testing
• Reverberations: Reactions to Moody’s downgrade and the “nationalilzation” of private pension funds
• Santa Claus brought bad news: Moody’s downgraded Hungary’s debt
• U.S.-Hungarian relations during the George W. Bush era
• Russia and Hungary: Orbán in Moscow
• Protest over the new media law
• A first glimpse of the new constitution
• Gyurcsány in his own words
• The latest blow to freedom of the press
• Two verbal duels: Gyurcsány versus Orbán and European Commission versus Matolcsy
• Poland and Hungary
• Socialist revival in Hungary?
• Péter Polt will again be the supreme prosecutor
• The immediate results of the “nationalization” of private pension funds
• The end of the rule of law in Hungary
• The ministry of defense under Csaba Hende
• Goodbye, Mr. Kopits
• “History lesson to stupid right-wing extremists”
• Viktor Orbán and Russia: Continued confusion
• Viktor Orbán in Brussels and Paris
• A footnote to Hungarian-Iranian friendship
• Hungary’s relation to Iran: A new chapter?
• Mark David Pittaway (1971-2010)
• Critical writings on Pál Schmitt’s constitutional ideas (II)
• Critical writings on Pál Schmitt’s constitutional ideas (I)
• The new president of Hungary is a dolt
• The workings of an American college
• The Hungarian version of the Bologna Process
• Hungarian education: A new detour?
• Two “exciting” days in Hungarian politics
• Politics and literature in Hungary
• Political demonstrations in Hungary
• Hungarian gastronomy through the ages
• In memoriam: Mark Pittaway (1971-2010)
• My attempt to write an article today
• Changing Hungarian higher education again
• The Hungarian right and China
• Some thoughts on Hungarian health care with a footnote to Viktor Orbán’s travels
• Viktor Orbán and the European Union
• A slight change in Fidesz’s popularity?
• Here is the long-awaited Hungarian budget
• Birthing at home in Hungary
• Some background and the Constitutional Court’s statement
• Who is surprised and who is not?
• On the road to dictatorship
• The Origo readers’ comments on Viktor Orbán’s speech
• Viktor Orbán’s speech on October 23: Selections
• Viktor Orbán’s October 23
• Tight budget but there is money for buying shares in MOL?
• Ferenc Gyurcsány: “Orbán is ruining us”
• “Hungary knows what it wants”
• Esztergom: Perhaps the voters learned a thing or two
• Commissioner in defense of people’s savings: Gabriella Selmeczi
• How to play with numbers: Orbán’s clever tricks
• A comparison of Magyar Nemzet and Népszabadság
• Hungary’s so-called economic policy
• Miklós Horthy: 1919-1921
• The new Hungarian Media Council
• The Hungarian environmental disaster: Quick update
• Confused communication about the Hungarian disaster
• Viktor Orbán and the environmental disaster
• The political implications of the Hungarian environmental disaster
• The former mayor of Esztergom refuses to leave
• Hungarian liberal intellectuals at a loss: Ádám Petri Lukács
• The Hungarian Socialist Party after the local elections
• Fidesz-Jobbik campaign speeches in Hungary
• Looking for guilty politicians Fidesz-Jobbik style
• Hungarian skeletons return
• Zoltán Illés, Hungarian undersecretary in charge of the environment
• The Hungarian prime minister’s encounter with the tax cut
• The current financial state of Hungary
• Rumors concerning the possible departure of György Matolcsy
• Parliamentary investigation Hungarian style
• A critique of the New Széchenyi Plan
• An opinion on the current Hungarian situation
• György Matolcsy’s fantasy land
• Conservative historians in Hungary?
• Yesterday’s big news: Gyurcsány agrees with Orbán on Azeri natural gas
• Is Ferenc Gyurcsány returning to politics soon?
• Lajos Kósa and Antal Rogán: Suggestions to ease the pain of mortgagors
• Credit rating agencies and Lajos Kósa
• The Fidesz government’s latest
• The new Hungarian government’s communication skills
• A meeting of the Hungarian eighty-niners
• Another day, another speech by Viktor Orbán
• The secret of Fidesz’s success?
• Orbán government’s U-turn: Is it for real?
• Long live reality! Viktor Orbán about his first 100 days in office
• Complete turnabout: Austerity program to be introduced
• The first one hundred days: A grade of C
• Fidesz, Viktor Orbán and Gyula Gömbös
• Péter Boross: No longer the wise man of Hungary?
• Hungarian civic courage: There is something one ought to learn from Slovak-Hungarians
• Orbán on Hungarian foreign policy
• The attack on Bloomberg’s Hungarian reporter
• Work and business culture in Hungary
• Hungarians and democracy
• Hungarian-IMF negotiations that will not take place
• The reasons for the popularity of the new Hungarian government
• Quotations from the speeches on the Hungarian national holiday
• Shift toward the right in the Hungarian public television
• August 20: The Day of St. Stephen
• Foreign media on the Orbán goverment: Libération, The Irish Times and Die Welt
• Foreign media on the Orbán government: Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and The Economist
• Foreign media on the Orbán government: The Washington Post
• Crime and punishment? The case of Béla Biszku
• The state of the Hungarian budget
• Turanian tribal meeting in Hungary
• A new book about Mindszenty
• What can happen to investors in Hungary
• Annamária Szalai: From porn magazine to the defence of family values
• The first few days of Pál Schmitt as president of Hungary
• The ill-fated Budapest metro
• The end of the investigation of the serial Gypsy murders
• Jobbik in parliament and out
• About Albert Wass
• The new Hungarian president’s inauguration
• A murder in Hungary
• Fidesz’s latest: An attack on the on-line media
• “Lovely dreams, hard awakening”
• What is in good taste and what is not?
• Hungarian economic breakthrough?
• “Place in the sun for the hopes of Hungarians”
• The New Széchenyi Plan
• Viktor Orbán and the “western type of capitalism”
• Literature and politics: Endre Ady (1877-1919)
• About István Stumpf, a new judge on the Hungarian Constitutional Court
• Economy, schmeconomy… The world according to Viktor Orbán by György Lázár
• Attacks on the constitutional order in Hungary
• Report of legal watchdogs: Serious problems with the Hungarian parliament’s activities
• The end of democracy?
• Confused communication or something else?
• The Visegrad 4 and Slovak-Hungarian Relations
• IMF-EU negotiations became a political football
• Hungarian and foreign media on the ill-fated negotiations
• Negotiations broke down between the Hungarian government and the IMF and EU
• Postscript to “The party of Erika Szűcs: MSZP”
• The party of Erika Szűcs: MSZP
• Hungarian negotiations with ECB, IMF, and EU: The situation is still fluid
• The Orbán government and reality
• Fidesz strategies for silencing the opposition
• A milestone in the life of Hungarian Spectrum
• Some very honest words about Hungarian doctors (2)
• Some very honest words about Hungarian doctors (1)
• Healthcare that needs immediate attention
• Viktor Orbán had a meeting with the LMP parliamentary delegation
• If Fidesz doesn’t like the constitution it changes it
• The Manifesto of National Cooperation: Fidesz government shot itself in the foot
• Orbán, the student of American history
• Orbán’s proclamation of national cooperation on every wall
• And what’s going on in MSZP?
• Interesting developments in Fidesz
• “Martonyi setting the stage”
• Hungary has had a bad press lately
• László Sólyom, the tragic hero?
• Warning voices from abroad
• More about Pál Schmitt
• The new president of Hungary: Pál Schmitt
• Since the Slovak elections
• The new Hungarian foreign policy in the making
• Sólyom in a new role
• In two weeks: a crime-free Hungary
• Two opinions: a pessimistic and an optimistic
• Proposed law on the media
• The “Sólyom for president” movement
• What’s going on in the Hungarian parliament?
• Making appointments Orbán style
• After an economic blunder came Fidesz’s Slovak fiasco
• About “pálinka”
• The salary of the chairman of the Hungarian National Bank and other possible problems
• A legislative proposal that would change the composition of the Constitutional Court
• Reactions to the Hungarian “action plan”
• The Orbán government’s “action plan”
• Total confusion in Budapest
• Alternative to Trianon?
• An embarrassing retreat for Viktor Orbán and his government
• Hungary’s problems are not going away
• Blunder after blunder: The latest is economic
• Viktor Orbán’s first foreign trip: Warsaw
• Fidesz gathering in front of parliament
• Speeches inside and outside of the Hungarian Parliament
• Hungary has a new government
• Three Hungarian reactions from Slovakia
• About János Martonyi, the new Hungarian foreign minister
• The die is cast
• A footnote to Milan Jaroň’s writing on Trianon
• Trianon: A different view
• The Day of National Belonging
• Trianon and the Hungarians
• The bull in the china closet
• Reactions to the proclamation of national cooperation
• The proclamation of national cooperation
• Viktor Orbán is a bit self-centered but hugely self-confident
• Changing of the guard
• A quick look at the opening of the Hungarian Parliament
• Parliamentary committees: Huge upheaval
• Dual citizenship and Slovakia
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s message to the Left and to MSZP (IV)
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s message to the Left and to MSZP (III)
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s message to the Left and to MSZP (II)
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s message to the Left and to MSZP (I)
• About truthfulness
• Hungary and Greece
• The state of the Hungarian socialist party
• The structure of the new Hungarian government
• Linguistics and biology
• József Budenz, the evil
• Two assessments of the future of the Orbán government
• Shaping a “revolutionary” new government
• Politics and the media
• The first signs of financial trouble
• The first day of the “new country”
• Election results in brief
• Too much self-confidence and the inevitable political mistakes
• A few quotations from the past
• New government, new plans
• What does the two-thirds mean in reality?
• March for Life
• The first Orbán government and healthcare reform
• What can we expect?
• Krisztina Morvai’s letter to the American ambassador to Hungary
• Viktor Orbán’s predicament
• Hungarian election results and how from here
• The morning after: The Hungarian elections
• News flash: The Hungarian elections
• Lajos Bokros on the budget deficit in 2006
• Ferenc Gyurcsány about Fidesz and László Sólyom
• Further developments in the Kubatov affair
• A bit awkward: Fidesz caught red handed
• “An election in Hungary”: Trials and tribulations of MDF (2)
• “An election in Hungary”: Trials and tribulations of MDF
• The answer to Hungary’s ills: Education
• Jobbik, Rózsa-Flores, Al-Qaeda according to a Croatian source
• Growing anti-Semitism in Hungary
• An attempt at fact checking in Hungary
• Sándor Pintér, Fidesz and BKV
• Jobbik: Are the Hungarian media after the party?
• Farkas Bethlen, an independent (sic) politician
• Two interviews with András Schiffer, chairman of LMP
• LMP or can politics can be something else?
• MDF in trouble
• Péter Tölgyessy’s analysis of the Hungarian political scene
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s long-awaited speech (III)
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s long-awaited speech (II)
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s long-awaited speech (I)
• Self-sufficiency in agriculture and energy in Hungary?
• The Budapest restaurant on the Michelin list: Costes
• Jobbik speeches on March 15
• Viktor Orbán’s new revolution
• Fidesz’s ideas on culture
• Varieties of corruption in Hungarian publicly owned companies
• Here at last is the Fidesz program: Hungary’s future?
• A Hungarian pragmatist: Gábor Kuncze
• History and critique of Fidesz’s notions of tax cuts and economic growth
• What is the program of Fidesz for Hungarian recovery?
• The Hungarian liberal party no more
• José Manuel Barroso: the European Union and Hungary
• Gábor Vona’s letter to Viktor Orbán
• István Nemeskürty, the nation’s historian
• József Debreczeni and the UD Zrt.: A strange Hungarian affair
• Shifting Hungarian political scene: Fidesz and Jobbik
• Viktor Orbán’s thoughts on the “Hungarian quality of existence” (III)
• Viktor Orbán’s thoughts on the “Hungarian quality of existence” (II)
• Viktor Orbán’s thoughts on the “Hungarian quality of existence” (I)
• Hungarian parties and statistical “reality”
• The strength of the Hungarian far-right
• The farewell speech of the Hungarian prime minister
• The Hungarian socialists’ program
• Ferenc Gyurcsány in the Hungarian media again
• The future prime minister of Hungary and plagiarism
• “The nation won’t do”: Tamás Bauer’s musings on the unification of the Hungarian nation
• Great discovery of the Hungarian left: Orbán is not a democratic politician
• Corruption as scapegoat in Hungary
• The Hungarian economy, the IMF, and Fidesz
• Oddities in Hungarian right-wing circles: the Fidesz web site
• Gáspár Károli Hungarian Reformed University
• Changing political scene in Hungary
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development: Report on Hungary
• The growth of the extreme right in Hungary
• Is freedom of speech in danger in Hungary?
• Hungarian Democratic Forum: Lajos Bokros’s campaign speech
• Future Hungarian foreign policy?
• Viktor Orbán’s speech on “the state of the Hungarian nation”
• Promises up to now: what’s waiting for Hungary?
• Hungarian election campaign in full swing
• Viktor Orbán on Facebook: Hungarian politics moves to the Internet
• Journalists’ debate: Zsolt Gréczy and Tamás Pindroch
• The Roma (Gypsy) situation is the gravest social problem today in Hungary
• Campaign in Hungary: Fidesz style
• German and other settlers in Hungary
• Property tax and the future of the pension fund in Hungary
• Changing nationalities: A natural development in East-Central Europe
• Today’s Hungary and Trianon
• For the time being no property tax in Hungary
• A new Hungarian campaign program: MDF’s plans
• The Hungarian right: The affairs of Fidesz and Jobbik
• The future of Hungarian democracy
• Hungarian liberals and conservatives together?
• A Hungarian board game: Krysis
• Election program of the Hungarian far right (III)
• Election program of the Hungarian far right (II)
• Election program of the Hungarian far right (I)
• Hungary’s neighbors: News from Slovakia and Romania
• Odds and ends from Hungary
• The Swedish pension model and Hungarian politics
• How to restrict the size of a Fidesz victory in Hungary
• The transit strike began in the Hungarian capital
• Fidesz and the Hungarian media
• Sociological survey among Hungarian young adults
• Fidesz plans for a new system of pensions in Hungary
• The Christian Democrats in Hungary: KDNP and Zsolt Semjén
• MDF: The new Hungarian liberal party?
• Fidesz and Hungarian sports
• The Hungarian far right’s program
• Let’s go for a drive in Hungary
• A few Hungarian economic data points
• The Hungarian president’s new year message
• Happy 2010!
• TV debate: Will there be one in Hungary next year?
• Reconsidering Hungarian welfare policy?
• László Kövér’s analysis of the Hungarian political situation
• Populism in Hungary
• New paganism in Hungary
• Happy holidays! A Christmas tree and food blogs in Hungary
• An optimistic assessment from a Hungarian liberal and the trends
• The Hungarian Academy of Sciences and politics
• A new Hungarian site: Galamus.hu
• An interesting political twist: Hungarians in Romania
• Fidesz and the Hungarian far-right
• Do you want to build a radar station in Hungary? I wouldn’t suggest it
• The metamorphosis of the leader of the Hungarian right (IV)
• Hungarian judges: The case of Mór
• The metamorphosis of the leader of the Hungarian right (III)
• The metamorphosis of the leader of the Hungarian right (II)
• The metamorphosis of the leader of the Hungarian right (I)
• It’s final: Attila Mesterházy is the Hungarian socialists’ choice
• A new legal fiasco in Hungary
• Elie Wiesel in Hungary
• New Hungarian attack on a French company
• Another Hungarian lawyer’s case with a twist
• Lawyers and white collar crime in Hungary
• Hungarian right-wing economists in the service of politics
• Communication battle in Hungary: The clear winner is Fidesz
• Katalin Szili, the true socialist?
• Moscow’s nightmare: The Hungarian opposition leader?
• The Hungarian right’s foreign policy offensive
• Politics and medicine: The case of Hungary
• The Hungarian service by S.K.
• The Hungarian budget debate: Politically motivated economists and others
• New theories and reality: The case of the Hungarian student
• Murder at a Hungarian university
• Past and future Hungarian prime ministers in Russia?
• Attila Mesterházy: The Hungarian socialists’ candidate for prime minister
• Negotiations between Putin and the Hungarian opposition leader?
• A Hungarian wrestling champion: Dr. Péter Kende by S.K.
• Did she get lost?
• Joint warning to Hungary about corruption
• By-election in Budapest
• Hungarian stock market performance 2009
• The first Hungarian guardist and Gypsy confrontation: Sajóbábony
• The beginnings of the Hungarian election campaign
• The pride of Hungarians by S.K.
• The far right in Eastern Europe and Hungary
• New Hungarian constitution? To follow the Polish model?
• Olaszliszka (Hungary) murder: Final verdict
• Hungarian teachers and students: Crisis?
• Two Hungarian interviews: Viktor Orbán on the campaign trail
• To refresh our memories: The prime minister of Hungary (1998-2002) and Tokaj
• The end of the beginning: Reflections of a Hungarian by S.K.
• Fight over the Hungarian airwaves or more than that?
• Fidesz and the Hungarian political police
• Soccer and politics: The story of Gyula Grosics
• Genetic markers in the Hungarian population: Then and now
• Return to a monarchy in Hungary?
• How about those Hungarian liberals? Part II by S.K.
• How about those Hungarian liberals? by S. K.
• About Hungarian soccer again
• Hungary’s prosperity index: The Legatum Institute’s findings
• Ferenc Gyurcsány is back: The Hungarian socialists receive a boost
• The growth of the extreme right in Hungary
• “Democratic humbug”: A critique of Hungarian “political scientists”
• Language of hatred: The voice of the Hungarian right
• Hungarian lament by S.K.
• A recent debate: What did the Hungarians want in 1956?
• Viktor Orbán’s speech on the anniversary of the October Revolution
• The Hungarian far-right in 1933: The Pécs section of the Turul Association
• A new anniversary: The Hungarian October
• Hungarian informers: The case of László Kiss of the Constitutional Court
• Dual citizenship: A recurrent theme in Hungarian politics
• Hungarian Fruit by S.K.
• Hungarian émigrés and the Kádár regime
• Adam Lebor’s Hungarian thriller—The Budapest Protocol
• Mayor of Esztergom, Hungary
• Political interview, Hungarian style
• Legal opinions in Hungary: The case of MTV and Nap-kelte
• Value structure of Hungarian society, 2009
• The Hungarian Credo: I love my homeland so! by S.K.
• Hungarian prelates and the revolution of 1948-1849
• Hungarian hysteria over flu vaccination
• The Hungarian Don Quixote?: Zoltán Szabó (MSZP)
• Hungarian pessimism: Who and why?
• Foreign investors in Hungary beware: Pécs and Suez Environment
• Watch Pécs: It will tell a lot about Fidesz plans for Hungary
• What we may expect if Fidesz wins the Hungarian election by S. K.
• Promises, promises: Fidesz’s plans for Hungary
• Indebtedness of Hungarian towns and counties
• Interesting paradox: Hungarian anti-Semitism
• Intricacies of Hungarian linguistic etiquette
• Factcheck Hungarian style
• Mostly about the Hungarian prime minister
• Land Ahoy! Hungary’s agriculture by S. K.
• Hungarian “progressive” writers and World War I
• Overconfident politician and lousy Hungarian journalists
• Beginning of a new Hungarian media war? Nap-kelte
• Hungarian healthcare: Emergency service
• The latest poll in Hungary, Fidesz strategy, and some humor
• Hungarian judges and courts
• Máté Szabó, Hungary’s ombudsman for civil rights
• Slovak-Hungarian conflict: The Political Capital Institute’s analysis
• The peaceful Hungarian demonstrators, September-October 2006
• Tension Renewed: Slovakia and Hungary
• Jobbik in Europe and in Hungary
• History as an instrument of nationalism: Slovakia and Hungary
• Gypsy crime in Hungary: The ghost of yesteryear by S.K.
• Some good news from Hungary
• The Hungarian socialist salvo
• The Hungarian opposition’s newest strategy
• Slovak-Hungarian summit: An auspicious beginning
• Hungarian foreign policy: Fidesz or Duchy of Fenwick style?
• Viktor Orbán’s vision for Hungary
• Let’s say hello to the stork: A little Hungarian linguistics by S. K.
• Teaching in Hungary
• Today’s Gay Pride Parade in Hungary
• Gay Pride Parade in Hungary
• Historians in the first Hungarian government: 1990-1994
• The Hungarian “FBI” and leaks
• Austria vs. Hungary: A personal reflection by S.K.
• Hungary and Slovakia: Perhaps there is hope
• Saint Stephen of Hungary
• The Carpathian Basin and the Hungarian conquest
• A Hungarian historical atlas
• Viktor Orbán and Hungarian democracy
• Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1968: Kádár and Dubček
• Hungarian skinheads: An old story and a sorry end
• The new old Hungarian Guard
• The alleged murderers: Real Hungarian Nazis
• The Hungarian president did not go to Slovakia after all
• Slovak-Hungarian tensions
• The beginning of a long weekend in Hungary: the Pan-European Picnic
• A new political formation: The Liberal Civic Association
• Rudapithecus of Rudabánya, Hungary
• Parking in Hungary
• The latest report on the Hungarian economy
• The political right in Hungary: The latest poll
• The Hungarian president, the Gypsies, and the Nazis
• Fabulous retirement packages at Hungarian public companies
• Hungary’s voluntary exiles–written by S.K.
• Hungarian Retro: Balatonaliga
• The Hungarian far-right: Jobbik’s chances
• György von Habsburg of Hungary
• Hungary’s president: A total failure
• A new Gypsy victim in Hungary
• The Slovak Language Law: Hungarian reaction
• Another strange story about Hungarian prosecution and courts
• Hungarian prosecution: A joke or something else?
• Back to Hungarian justice
• Stem cell “therapy” business in Hungary
• Government assistance and family support in Hungary
• “Proof” of the activities of the Arrows of Hungarians
• The funeral of János Kádár (July 14, 1989)
• The language of Viktor Orbán’s “political philosophy”
• Hungarian terrorists in Bolivia: Aftermath
• Corruption: The Hungarian judiciary and politics
• Political fundamentalism in Hungary
• The Hungarian liberals, a reflective look
• Hungarian politicians at Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tuşnad, Romania
• Economic strategies of the Hungarian opposition
• The first two days: Hungarian extremists in the European Parliament
• International scandal: Hungarian soccer hooligans
• Hungarian liberals: End game
• The return of the gendarmerie?–written by S.K.
• Back to 1939: The Hungarian right-wing press
• Two elections in Hungary: 1939 and 2009
• “To the left!”: A debate on social democracy in Hungary
• A Hungarian political microcosm: Fót
• Finding their way: The Hungarian socialists’ dilemma
• János Kádár of Hungary, May 26, 1912-July 6, 1989
• The Hungarian Guard demonstrates in Budapest
• Law enforcement in Hungary
• The Hungarian Guard no more?
• Kiskunlacháza and the Hungarian National Development Agency
• A return to Kiskunlacháza–An extreme right locality in Hungary
• Hungary and the East German “tourists”
• Hungary and the Iron Curtain
• Strange turns of justice in Hungary
• Left-liberal media in Hungary
• Political opinion in Hungary–Medián and Tárki
• The Hungarian right-wing media: Magyar Nemzet, Inforádió, and Hír TV
• Hungary twenty years ago: The rise of Viktor Orbán
• Turmoil in the Hungarian Socialist Party
• Hungarian socialists: change of strategy?
• Cooperation contract signed by Hungarian extreme right groups
• Arrows of Hungarians Liberation Army
• Chief justice of the Hungarian Supreme Court: András Baka?
• The Hungarian right after the EU elections: Orbán’s dilemma
• Hungarian austerity program: tougher EU demands
• Hungarian informers of the Kádár regime: a new list
• Hungarian Gypsies (Roma): Past and present (Part II)
• Hungarian Gypsies (Roma): Past and present (Part I)
• The Hungarian EP elections–time for reassessment and reflection
• European parliamentary elections: Hungary
• The Hungarian National Bank chief and Cyprus
• Hungarians and the extreme right
• The first fifty days of the new Hungarian government
• Hungary, her neighbors, and Viktor Orbán
• Learning a language in Hungary
• Hungarian justice as a political instrument
• Verdict in the Olaszliszka (Hungary) murder
• European parliamentary elections in Hungary
• Hungarian public education: 1956-1990
• Skipping along in Hungary: Public transportation anomalies
• Hungarian public education: 1945-1956
• Hungarian public education: The beginnings
• Hopes and fears in Hungary: Elections of 2010
• Hungary’s independent media: History of Heti Válasz
• Hungarian higher education
• The Hungarian extreme right and the police force
• The Hungarian informers: Past and present
• Playback: Hungary in 1989
• Only in Hungary: A controversy over a test question
• A new Hungarian “Centrum Party”?
• The latest “outrage” in Hungary: Introduction of property taxes?
• The Hungarian parliament according to Viktor Orbán
• Mayoral elections at Pécs: Defeat for the Hungarian socialists
• Die Zeit on the Hungarian far right
• The strange case of Máriusz Révész
• A “successful” Hungarian strike without “results” and other happenings
• A general strike in Hungary? Doubtful
• Pécs: Portrait of a Hungarian election
• Hungary and the European Union: Anniversary and elections
• Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary): Előd Novák
• The Russian interest in Hungary’s MOL
• The Hungarian Right: Fidesz, Jobbik and MIÉP
• The new Hungarian finance minister: Péter Oszkó and the media
• The Hungarian far-right: “Jobbik”
• Hungarians in Bolivia
• The Hungarian literary scene: Péter Esterházy’s view
• The Hungarian parliament
• “My war with nationalism”
• The Hungarian Guard and holocaust denial
• The psyche of an “anarchist”: Eduardo Rózsa-Flores
• Women, children, and work in Hungary
• The Hungarian far-right in Bolivia–Eduardo Rózsa-Flores
• Growing support for the new Hungarian government
• The current Hungarian political situation
• The Bajnai government
• Gordon Bajnai is the new Hungarian prime minister
• How the past is used and abused in Hungary
• The Bajnai cabinet?
• Hungarians’ fear of the economic crisis
• Raising chickens in times of trouble
• An exchange of letters: Bajnai and Szijjártó
• The media and the current political situation
• The Rise and Fall of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Part II
• Accomplishments of the last seven years: an MSZP self-assessment
• MSZP has put its house in order
• Gordon Bajnai’s austerity program
• Road to Gyurcsány’s resignation
• What we know about the current Hungarian situation
• The end of political chaos or just a brief respite?
• The rise and fall of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Part I
• Political chaos in Hungary
• Fact and fiction: A Canadian perspective
• “New York Perspective”
• One possible prime minister: György Surányi
• The day after: total confusion in Hungarian political life
• A bombshell: Gyurcsány offers his resignation but not yet
• Storm in a teapot?
• László Sólyom, the diplomat
• Viktor Orbán is moving farther to the right
• The Reform Alliance’s program is dead
• Viktor Orbán’s speech on March 15
• The Hungarian Republic and Weimar?
• Gloomy Hungarians, a survey
• The Bokros package: pro and con
• Hungarian pessimism
• The end of Magyar Demokrata Fórum?
• The Orbán government and the media
• Reactions to Viktor Orbán’s speech
• Viktor Orbán’s brave new world
• Dark economic clouds over Hungary
• The Austrian count and the Gripen sales to Hungary
• Prosecution Hungarian style
• The Hungarian police force
• Hungarian education: Back to state schools?
• Ferenc Gyurcsány swings into action
• Economic Cacophony in Hungary?
• Crimes against Gypsies: 2008-2009
• Two new victims in yet another attack against a Gypsy family
• “Fidesz has a substantive program for solving the crisis”
• The Hungarian Reform Alliance: ideas of capitalists and economists
• Confusion and noise in SZDSZ
• Katalin Szili and her beloved Pécs
• Eastern European economic and financial woes
• Gyurcsány’s speech a day after
• The Hungarian stimulus program
• Fidesz wins on the Internet
• Retro: 1989
• Anti-Gypsy prejudice in Hungary
• Aftermath of the night club murder
• A brief survey: Hungarian Gypsies in the Kádár regime and since
• A few crime statistics in Hungary
• The latest trouble on the Gypsy front
• Gábor Fodor’s latest
• Political corruption in Hungary
• Hungarian National Compact
• Viktor Orbán at home and abroad
• Fidesz diplomacy?
• A smaller Hungarian Parliament?
• Political correctness in Hungary
• An analysis of the Hungarian radical right
• Gyurcsány package?
• Fidesz and the European Union
• Sensationalism in Hungary
• Another economic gathering in Budapest and a surprising poll
• A new Bokros “package”: Not likely
• Hungary in turmoil
• Obama in Hungary
• Miserable times?
• Yet another new party structure for Fidesz?
• Kövér made a speech, perhaps he shouldn’t have
• László Kövér : A portrait
• After the IMF Chief’s visit in Budapest
• Hungary and the IMF
• Courting the European Union
• Twenty years ago: the birth of Hungarian democracy
• Political map of the Hungarian population
• Crisis after crisis: now it is gas
• President Sólyom and domestic violence
• Stormy political beginnings in Hungary
• A new Hungarian literary success: György Dragomán
• The Hungarian president’s New Year’s Message
• The Hungarian political police chiefs and their underlings, 1957-1990
• The Hungarian Secret Service and the Catholic Church
• The Hungarian secret service, 1956-1990
• Orbán’s Christmas message
• Hungarian retro: the 1950s and 1988
• Friderikusz on the media
• A few facts and figures about the Hungarian Railways fares
• Sándor Friderikusz’s portrait of Orbán, II
• Sándor Friderikusz’s portrait of Orbán, I
• Are Hungarian strikes a Fidesz political weapon?
• Orbán remains inside his cocoon
• The Hungarian Guard: End game?
• The Hungarian budget: the MSZP government triumphed
• Viktor Orbán and cooperation?
• A new poll, a new strategy?
• Lifestyle in Hungary
• Adult education in Hungary
• Duel in the Hungarian liberal party
• Another Sólyom nomination, another rejection
• Fighting over the secret past in Hungary
• Corruption on the local government level
• Big trouble in the Hungarian liberal party
• Blog and dialogue in Hungary
• Economists on the “sick Hungary”
• Another important vote in the Hungarian parliament
• The fate of a hate crime in a Hungarian court
• A new murder and a new anti-Gypsy demonstration
• Hungary’s place in Eastern Europe
• Hate-speech: the fourth round
• Political odds and ends after the Hungarian budget debate
• A good day for MSZP and the government
• Orbán’s mistakes?
• Hungary and the world economic crisis
• . . . and Orbán spoke
• Atrocities against Gypsies
• The Magi: Haider, Fico, and Orbán
• Komarno and afterwards
• Fico-Gyurcsány meeting in Komarno
• The Hungarian extreme right and the judiciary
• Slovak and Hungarian nationalism
• The Hungarian Economic Summit
• Fico and Gyurcsány in Komarno
• Mario and Cipolla in the Hungarian parliament
• Quite a story: the parish priest and the mailman
• Slovak-Hungarian relations: getting worse and worse
• Amazing events in Hungarian courtrooms
• IMF, Hungary and the banks
• A documentary on political divisiveness in Hungary
• The US elections and the Hungarian media
• At last: Hospinvest has taken over the hospital in Eger
• Soccer on All Saints’ Day
• A new poll in Hungary
• The IMF and ECB loans and Hungarian politics
• The moderate Fidesz weekly: Heti Válasz
• The Hungarian “umbrella package”
• Ottokár Prohászka and antisemitism
• A glimpse into the past: the presiding judge at the Imre Nagy trial
• After the national holiday
• Political manipulation in Hungary?
• Economists on the Hungarian financial crisis
• Local government Hungarian style
• Reactions to the Hungarian summit
• The end of the Hungarian summit
• Tomorrow’s Hungarian Summit
• Viktor Orbán’s “explanation” of the financial crisis
• Sólyom will not attend the summit
• Hungarian All National Summit
• The fate of informers in Hungary
• The agony of MDF (Hungarian Democratic Forum)
• The financial crisis and the Hungarian response
• The financial crisis and the Hungarian opposition
• Few people attend church in Hungary
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s tears
• Hungarian Jambalaya
• Viktor Orbán’s latest pep talk
• “Polypgate”: It’s racheting up
• Illegal, illegitimate
• Ferenc Gyurcsány answers the people
• Viktor Orbán speaks to his people
• Fidesz political culture and its consequences
• The Hungarian conservatives: MDF
• “Polypgate” in Hungary: new developments
• “Polypgate” in Hungary
• The Hungarian intellectual elite
• The other Hungary
• Sources of information in Hungary
• Reactions to last night’s events in Budapest
• There is no end to violence in Hungary
• A week in Hungarian politics
• “Dirty tricks” and a myopic Hungarian judicial system
• What planet is Fodor on?
• Quite a twist: SZDSZ accuses MDF of having a pro-government stance?
• The first day of the Hungarian parliament
• Radical right in Hungary, a new study
• A Hungarian Watergate?
• The mouse that roared: The Hungarian liberal party
• A new Hungarian opinion poll: Századvég-Forsense
• An almost forgotten name from the past: Kaya Ibrahim
• Who will be the winner? The Hungarian socialists or the liberals?
• Political Suicide: The Hungarian liberals
• Peter Rona’s ideas on the Hungarian economy and society (III)
• Peter Rona’s ideas on the Hungarian economy and society (II)
• Peter Rona’s ideas on the Hungarian economy and society (I)
• Gábor Horn’s “Third Road”
• What a blow: Hungarians like the “Compact”
• János Kóka versus Gábor Fodor
• SZDSZ says no, but for how long?
• The latest blemish on the Hungarian judicial system
• Back to school in Hungary
• “A nice little essay”
• Full speed ahead
• The end of the “silly season”
• The Doctrine of the Holy Crown
• The extreme right and the Holy Crown
• Hungary and Georgia
• St. Stephen: The founder of the Hungarian state
• Pál Schmitt and the Hungarian Olympic Committee
• The lunatic fringe in Hungary: a case study
• Transylvania: Early history
• A foreign investment victim of Hungarian political strife
• Hungarian politics and the Olympics
• A very brief Hungarian history lesson continued
• A very brief Hungarian history lesson
• The Russian bear woke up
• The Olympics and Hungary
• The first one hundred days of the minority government
• Magyar Demokrata Fórum (MDF): Too big a bite?
• The Hungarian extreme right in its own voice
• The extreme right in light of public opinion polls
• Investigative journalism à la Hír TV
• Judicial chaos in Hungary
• The newest opinion polls
• Nepotism in Hungary
• The Hungarian far right and David Irving
• “Defenders of the hospital” and Hospinvest
• Another bomb scare in Budapest
• U.S.-Hungarian relations
• Hungarian higher education
• That cursed turul statue
• Followers of Arrow Cross? Hungarian neo-nazis?
• Lajos Papp, the world famous cardiologist
• János Kádár, Gyula Thürmer, Béla Király and Imre Del Medico
• Hungarian right radicalism: 1920 and today
• Watermelon politics in Hungary
• The Transylvanian debacle
• The nation’s doctor: István Mikola
• Promising economic news from Hungary
• Hungarian canoe king is dead
• Hungarian xenophobia
• József Karsai (MSZP) and Hungarian watermelons
• Fidesz economist: György Matolcsy
• A sociological study about political radicalism
• The homophobe academician casts a pall on the whole institution
• Two Hungarian opinion polls: the gay pride parade and political popularity
• The Hungarian judges try to explain things away
• The last straw: the Hungarian police and the judiciary
• Realpolitik and the Hungarian political situation
• Hungarian Public Television
• The Hungarian gay pride parade
• A bit more math
• The latest Fidesz ideas about the economy
• The dead cucumber thief: Whose fault is it?
• Hungarian justice
• Soccer and related topics
• Gay parade: Trouble is already brewing in Hungary
• Hungarians and traffic laws
• Hungarian Spectrum’s first anniversary
• Hungarian economic tea leaves
• Lajos Bokros et al.
• Half time: 2006-2008 (II)
• Half time: 2006-2008 (I)
• Gömbös and Orbán?
• National pride
• Is the tide turning?
• President Sólyom and history
• “In the spiral of silence”
• Fifty years ago
• The Hungarian Guard and the Gypsies
• Orbán in trouble
• Budapest, the beautiful
• Dobogókő: Gyurcsány is satisfied
• The Hungarian parliament goes on vacation and the IMF visits Hungary
• What happened to the Hungarian forint and why?
• SZDSZ elections solved nothing
• A new economic plan?
• Trianon: Anniversary (II)
• Trianon: Anniversary (I)
• Hungarian political think tanks
• István Stumpf’s interview and what it tells us
• Media manipulation in Hungary
• Fidesz damage control
• Orbán’s revelations and their afterlife
• Reactions to Orbán’s revelations
• Szálasi as party leader
• Szálasi and Hungarism
• Orbán’s Őszöd?
• Viktor Orbán’s plans for Hungary?
• Hungarians were happier in the Kádár regime
• The newest poll: SZDSZ is in trouble
• A question of viewpoint
• The two small Hungarian parties: MDF and SZDSZ
• Hungarian justice when it comes to Fidesz
• Fidesz plans for the future?
• Language of Fear: Fidesz communication (III)
• The Hungarian minority government: the first hurdle cleared
• Language of Fear: Fidesz communication (II)
• Language of Fear: Fidesz communication (I)
• László Sólyom refuses to budge
• The usual political mess in Hungary with some help from the media
• The Hungarian right, antisemitism, and the foreign press
• Higher education and professional schools in Hungary
• Civics: Perhaps it should be introduced in Hungarian schools
• Weekend odds and ends in Hungary
• Hungarians and competition
• Hungarian retro: May Day
• International trends and the Hungarian situation
• The new Hungarian cabinet
• Propaganda and persuasion: Hungarians look at themselves and Hungary
• The end of the Hungarian coalition
• Goy Bikers and the press
• “The Night of the Long Bytes” Revisited
• Another Magyar Nemzet fiasco
• Hungarian pseudo scandal expanded
• A new pseudo scandal in Hungarian politics
• Family doctors in Hungary
• Weekends and weak knees in Hungary
• Back to Hungarian politics
• A little Hungarian history and linguistics
• Coalition–yes or no?
• Hungarians and economics
• Minority government’s plans for the future?
• Changes in Hungarian attitudes
• Aftermath: Right and Left
• Another round of neo-nazi disturbance
• Hungarian neo-nazis on the attack
• Economic crisis?
• Intellectuals and politics
• Gossip mongering: the new Hungarian pastime
• Political limbo in Hungary
• Church and state
• Gábor Fodor versus János Kóka
• What now?
• Coalition crisis?
• Fidesz birthday bash: Twenty years
• Soul searching in the MSZP
• A short article in The Economist
• Violence in Hungarian schools
• What’s going on in SZDSZ?
• The importance of the Constitutional Court
• A case study: Hungarian papers on the MSZP pow-wow
• Political journalism in Hungary
• Propaganda campaign in the media?
• Economic and political alternatives?
• Hungary’s economic prospects
• Between east and west
• Is health care reform dead?
• Ibolya Dávid’s latest
• Oh, those national holidays
• A Pyrrhic “victory for Hungary”
• The Hungarian Guard and the courts
• Reconsidering the practice of referendum?
• An uneasy coalition
• The results
• During the campaign silence
• The campaign silence and other nonsense
• The last days before the referendum
• A new attempt at school reform
• Private investment in Hungarian hospitals: A case study
• The newest prediction re the Sunday results
• Gyurcsány and the referendum campaign
• All those streams of natural gas
• The “New Ownership Program”
• New economic ideas
• Bribe for Gypsy votes?
• Railway strikes are getting shorter and shorter
• Thoughts about the referendum
• “In the captivity of pseudo axioms”
• The price of learning in Hungary
• Sunrise or Sunset? The story of Napkelte
• “Night of the Long Bytes”
• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s speech in parliament
• Tuition and Hungarian universities
• Gyurcsány and Sarkozy–kindred souls
• Orbán and the “state of the union”
• What should the Hungarian government do?
• After the vote: New Hungarian politics?
• The concept of the nation in Fidesz political discourse. Part II
• The concept of the nation in Fidesz political discourse. Part I
• Gyurcsány and his blog
• Absurdistan
• Comments and reactions
• Béla Szabadi: Is he innocent?
• The strike
• Chaos repeated?
• Budaházy and his friends
• Katalin Kondor: Was she an informer?
• Hungarian Jurisprudence: The case of György Budaházy
• Orbán’s latest game
• A Hungarian law school in the late 1930s
• The latest atrocity of the Hungarian Supreme Court
• Hungarian universities
• The upcoming referendum, yet another jaded look
• Strange events in a Hungarian courtroom
• The Antall government of Hungary, 1990-1993
• Justice in Hungary
• Transformation of Hungarian political parties
• Hungarian conservatism?
• Hungarian theaters as political instruments
• Suddenly the Hungarian police have answers
• Ordinary Hungarians aren’t thrilled with capitalism
• What’s missing in the Hungarian legal system? A lot
• Kati Marton in Hungary
• Violence and crime in Hungary
• Two dinosaurs in the Hungarian Socialist Party
• Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian Olympic swimmer, is back in the news
• New Hungarian government quarters? Not for a while
• With a sad heart, back to the Hungarian ambulance service
• The two Hungarian “leaders”: Gyurcsány and Orbán
• The Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
• Political fortune tellers in Hungary
• The busy Hungarian prime minister
• The first day of the year in Hungary
• New Year, new politics in Hungary?
• Ambulance service in Hungary
• A factcheck.org is needed in Hungary
• Hungarian holidays and their extensions
• President Sólyom and the Hungarian health care reform
• Season’s Greetings
• Molotov cocktails and a beating in Hungary
• Schengen and Hungary
• After the Hungarian health bill
• The Hungarian Medical Association and its president
• A great day for the Hungarian government
• Days of expectations in Hungary
• Pécs: European Capital of Culture, 2010
• Health care, public dialogue, capitalism in Hungary
• President Sólyom and the Hungarian Guard
• The Hungarian Guard and the Gypsies
• “For a dynamic Hungary”
• Political discourse Hungarian style
• Changing Christmas customs in Hungary
• Education in Hungary
• József Antall’s sin? Hungary in 1989-1990
• The role of the Hungarian police on October 23, 2006
• Who were those communists in Hungary?
• Hungarians and foreign languages
• Why do Hungarian émigrés bet on the wrong horse?
• Good economic news in Hungary doesn’t carry over into the political arena
• New voices in Hungarian “healthy living”
• The Gripen affair again
• Those monthly polls in Hungary
• Will Hungarians be representing Romania in Brussels?
• Hungary: A country where there are no consequences? Perhaps less and less so
• Failure or not? Strike and demonstration in Hungary
• The Hungarian Holy Crown, irredentism, and the right
• Fidesz organized general strike?
• Viktor Orbán in New York and Washington
• The doping case of Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
• Katalin Szili: the Hungarian Tess of the d’Urbervilles
• Katalin Szili is more than “silly” but is she dangerous?
• The future of Hungarian health insurance
• Losing two to nothing? The Hungarian government and the opposition
• Grand coalition in Hungary: a singularly bad idea
• Strict limits on the Hungarian budget
• Salaries of Hungarian parliamentary members
• Two Hungarian polls: the referendum and health care
• Orbán and the USA: Further developments
• Poland and Hungary: the Kaczynskis and the Fidesz
• Another day of remembrance in Hungary: November 4, 1956
• Gyurcsány’s program and its opponents in the MSZP and SZDSZ
• Courting the United States: New Fidesz strategy?
• Freedom of speech in Hungary
• Viktor Orbán, László Tőkés, and Transylvania
• Driving in Hungary
• Modern political campaigns and databases
• The state of the Hungarian liberal party (SZDSZ)
• The Hungarian economic situation
• The current Hungarian political situation and the Gyurcsány speech in Balatonőszöd
• October 21-23: two men, two speeches; and political corruption in Hungary
• Remembrance of October 23, 1956
• The anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution: October 23
• The Hungarian Guard (Magyar Gárda): 600 new members
• New poll: the majority is for Gyurcsány’s referendum proposals
• The right is getting ready for October 23–Fidesz, the Black Guard, and MÖM
• Demonstrations planned for October 23 in Hungary
• What a boring day in Hungary
• Referendum tsunami in Hungary?
• The Hungarian coalition (MSZP and SZDSZ): a very bad marriage
• Hungarian journalists, cynicism, and wrong political assessments
• Gyurcsány versus Orbán: The second round
• Scandal, this time in the Hungarian parliament
• Seven or eight points: MSZP and Fidesz
• Referendum on top of referendum in Hungary? Or perhaps not
• President Sólyom and Hungarian foreign policy
• A new Hungarian referendum or something else?
• 1956: Sólyom, Horn, and now Havas
• Bill Clinton in Budapest
• Hungarian education and the Hungarian Guard
• One more Hungarian corruption case, with a twist
• In Hungary they call each others liars
• Against corruption in Hungary: seven suggestions
• Hungarian-Slovak relations
• The Hungarian public and corruption
• Journalistic independence: USA and Hungary
• Civility among Hungarian politicians and the press? What civility?
• Lakitelek: Hungarian Populism Twenty Years Later
• Ildikó Lendvai, head of the MSZP caucus
• Gyurcsány’s housecleaning
• Campaign financing–not just a Hungarian problem
• Everybody is fed up with everybody and everything
• Political scientists in Hungary
• Gyurcsány’s 48 points: the government’s agenda
• Orbán’s strategy
• Lying and its consequences, à la Viktor Orbán
• Demonstrations and a speech–nothing has changed
• The Hungarian police force: do they know what their role is?
• Gyurcsány’s great success with Sarkozy
• Revolution and the Hungarian lunatic fringe
• Sarkozy’s visit to Hungary
• The MDF and Sólyom
• Aftermath of the Hungarian president’s ill-conceived speech
• Is this antisemitism or not?
• Hungarian President Sólyom’s speech and reactions
• Meeting of the MSZP parliamentary caucus
• Deteriorating political and professional discourse in Hungary
• Hungarian referendum: Yes, yes, yes for everything?
• Hungarian Guard and Fidesz, “take two”
• Puzzling Hungarian opinion poll results
• Hungary is looking East, to Russia and China
• Hungarian press conference about the Guard: who won?
• Navracsics’s speech, August 31, 2007
• Gyurcsány’s speech, August 31, 2007
• The Hungarian Guard: a press conference, an opinion poll, and Fidesz strategy
• Hungarian laws and the courts
• Fidesz, the churches, the president, and the far right
• The Hungarian Guard and the churches
• Fidesz and the Hungarian Guard (Magyar Gárda)
• Magyar Gárda (Hungarian guard): no end to the controversy
• The Hungarian Guard: white, not black shirts
• Magyar Gárda: shots heard round the world
• University tuition: a never-ending Hungarian controversy
• The Hungarian Crown: a mountain out of a molehill
• The Hungarian president’s speech
• August 20: the official Hungarian national holiday
• Magyar Gárda: let’s muddy the waters and call it the Homeland Guard
• Iván Vitányi on Hungary past and present
• Tom Lantos and the “ignorant guard” (Magyar Gárda)
• A Hungarian call-in show: György Bolgár’s “Let’s discuss it”
• Hungarian malls: small is no longer beautiful
• Downtown Pest and Antal Rogán
• The Gripen affair
• The Skála, a microcosm of Hungarian capitalism
• A sore point: US visa requirements
• “Silly season, cucumber season”? Not really
• The Hungarian economy: there is reason to rejoice
• Hungarian infrastructure: the convergence program
• Budapest, the heart of the country
• The “Black Army” and the Arrowcross
• The new government quarters
• Architectural tastes
• Black shirts and paramilitary formations
• Politicians and their “private” lives
• Churches and politics: the case of Budakeszi
• Hungarians always had a good sense of humor
• Hungarian tax collection–zero tolerance?
• Getting acquainted with Katalin Kondor
• The agony of the Hungarian Public Radio
• Hungarian attitude toward the past
• At last the money is coming from Brussels
• Cops in crisis
• The doctors and health reform
• Hungarians are enterprising
• One country or two?
• Heat wave and political discourse
• The president, the king and the pope
• Talk of the town or the whole country?
• The informers: Will we know the truth at last?
• Health care in Hungary (cont.)
• Health care in Hungary
• Plato was wrong: the Hungarian Constitutional Court
• Radar and roses
• Hungary, no longer a country of readers
• The “feral beast”: the Hungarian press
• And here comes the linguist
• The gentleman Hungarian driver
• After the Gay Pride Parade in Budapest
• Mud slinging, a Hungarian pastime
• Gay Pride Day in Budapest
• The aftermath
• Remembrances: 1956
• The Oracle
• The President
• The besieged media
• Guardian of tradition
• Constitutional flim-flam
• The righteous right
• Oily business
• Farm subsidies, Hungarian style

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