Budapest Mayor Karácsony’s first 100 days
January 24th, 2020
A liberal and a pro-government commentator assess Budapest Mayor Karácsony’s performance during his first one hundred days in office. READ MORE
12th district mayor praised for confronting family history
January 23rd, 2020
A rabbi welcomes Budapest 12th district mayor Zoltán Pokorni’s courage in facing up to his family history and publicly discussing his grandfather’s involvement in the murder of Jews in World War Two. READ MORE
Tags: anti-Semitism, history, Holocaust, Pokorni
Fidesz urged to quit EPP
January 22nd, 2020
A conservative pundit believes that the European People’s Party has turned to the left, and calls on the governing party to quit the EPP and found a new political group in the European Parliament. READ MORE
Tags: EPP, European Parliament, Fidesz
Government suspends payment of compensation to inmates
January 21st, 2020
A liberal commentator thinks that the government’s decision to suspend the payment of compensation to inmates further weakens the rule of law. A pro-government columnist welcomes the decision, and finds it fully in-line with the opinion of most Hungarians. READ MORE
Tags: court, crime, human rights, Orbán
Weeklies on the Roma school segregation verdict
January 20th, 2020
Left-liberal weeklies are outraged by the Prime Minister’s opinion that ‘something should be done’ about the court sentence which compels the Gyöngyöspata Council to pay compensation to Roma families whose children were segregated at school from 2004 to 2012. Conservative authors suggest that the verdict is doing more harm than good. READ MORE
Tags: Jobbik, Orbán, Roma, segregation
EP adopts resolution condemning Poland and Hungary
January 18th, 2020
In the very first reactions to the resolution passed by the EP in Strasbourg on Thursday, two opposition outlets believe its implications for both Hungary and Fidesz will be limited.
Tags: Article 7, European Parliament
Government accused of excluding Budapest from EU funds
January 17th, 2020
The nationwide left-wing daily stands by its claim that the government has submitted to the European Union a financial scheme in which the Hungarian capital is left out of a list of target areas for European development funds. READ MORE
European Parliament debates over Hungary and Poland
January 16th, 2020
A pro-government columnist believes Hungary’s critics in the EP condemn anyone who opposes their project of a single federal European state. READ MORE
Tags: Article 7, European Parliament
Roger Scruton remembered
January 15th, 2020
Commentators on both sides of the political divide portray the deceased conservative British philosopher as an ally of Prime Minister Orbán. The Hungarian PM awarded him a high state medal in London in December, just six weeks before Roger Scruton died of cancer on Sunday. READ MORE
77th anniversary of the Disaster on the Don
January 14th, 2020
A pro-government author describes the soldiers of both Hungary and the Soviet Union who fell in the Second World War as ordinary citizens who had no choice but to fight far from their homelands. READ MORE
Tags: history, Russia, World War Two