- 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
- Donate using Stripe
- 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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