Further Covid restrictions described as ‘unnecessary’
A centrist commentator thinks that the government should lift all remaining restrictions, since vaccines are available for everyone in the country. Those who decide not to get inoculated should bear the responsibility for their own fate. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, freedom
Dispute over government record
A pro-government commentator praises the government’s vaccination performance and post-Covid recovery policies. Left-wing columnists, on the other hand, fear serious problems ahead, including increasing inequality. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, economy
Weeklies on the government’s referendum
Left-wing weeklies sharply dismiss the government initiative to hold a referendum on the sexual education of children as a pointless act of propaganda. A right-wing commentator only agrees with them on one point – namely that the plan should be read in the context of mutual efforts to mobilise supporters ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. READ MORE
Tags: education, LGBTQ, Pegasus, referendum
Lewis Hamilton slams Hungary’s ’child protection law’
A pro-government author sarcastically thanks the British Formula 1 driver for what he sees as an involuntary contribution to the government’s victory in next year’s election. READ MORE
Government’s referendum initiative to support its ’child protection law’
A pro-government commentator argues that the referendum and the law it serves to support are intended to defend children from aggressive LGBTQ propaganda. An opposition-leaning author dismisses the initiative as a ploy to mobilise Fidesz supporters. READ MORE
Tags: LGBTQ, primaries, referendum
Opposition primaries kick off
As opposition sympathisers start voting to choose their candidate for Prime Minister and for the 106 MPs to be elected in individual constituencies, a left-liberal author calls the project an event of potentially historic significance. READ MORE
Tags: opposition, primaries
Opposition protests the spyware scandal
Opposition news sites complain about the small number of demonstrators who joined the opposition march in Budapest on Monday. A pro-government analyst takes it as proof that the spyware scandal is a hoax. READ MORE
Tags: opposition, Pegasus, spyware
Budapest Pride as an opposition march
As for the first time in its history, the LGBTQ march through Budapest was also an anti-government demonstration, opinions sharply diverge on its message. READ MORE
Hungary seen as an island of ‘normality’
Conservative commentators accuse the ‘West’ and ‘Brussels’ of attacking Hungary in order to punish it for defending traditional Christian and European values. READ MORE
Tags: European Union, LGBTQ