Slovakia – V4 outsider/EU insider?
Saturday, August 5th, 2017A left-wing columnist predicts that Slovakia will ultimately join the mainstream EU countries rather than remaining loyal to the Visegrád 4 group, of which it is a member. READ MORE
Author Archive
Jobbik moves to the centre
Friday, August 4th, 2017A prominent political analyst believes that by moving away from its extreme positions, Jobbik has opened up the possibility that Fidesz might lose its parliamentary majority as early as next year’s election. READ MORE
Momentum approaches parliamentary threshold
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017As opinion polls register the new party founded by young intellectuals as the preferred choice of 3 per cent of decided voters, a left-wing analyst believes that sooner or later they might have to take sides in Hungary’s deply polarised landscape. READ MORE
Botka makes peace with Molnár
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017A left-wing columnist excoriates the leaders of the MSZP for wasting time waging internal wars rather than channelling social discontent and representing a credible alternative to the incumbent government. READ MORE
PM Orbán’s post-2019 EU agenda
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017One week after the Prime Minister said Hungary and her East European allies will have a crucial job to accomplish within the European Union after Brexit, two leading analysts express diametrically opposing views on Hungary’ future within the EU. READ MORE
Botka’s struggle for supremacy within the Left
Monday, July 31st, 2017Commentaries continue to flow on MSZP front runner László Botka’s surprisingly candid accusations against ‘traitors and collaborationists’ within his own party. Commentators tend to agree that a left-wing victory at next year’s election is highly improbable. READ MORE
EU Court to reject Hungarian-Slovak anti-relocation suit
Saturday, July 29th, 2017A left-wing columnist agrees with the opinion of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice who has recommended to the judges that they reject a complaint by Hungary and Slovakia against a September 2015 decision to relocate migrants from Italy and Greece to other EU countries. READ MORE
Botka sees traitors in his own party
Friday, July 28th, 2017A left-wing analyst predicts that the MSZP frontrunner is waging a losing battle against his unruly fellow Socialists and his failure might signal the demise of the whole party. READ MORE
Small opposition parties at war?
Thursday, July 27th, 2017A conservative commentator interprets a Reflektor article criticising Momentum as a sign of a pre-electoral war between LMP and Momentum. He assumes that the idea of an electoral alliance uniting them and two other small opposition parties is doomed to failure. READ MORE
Tușnad seen as a lesson for the opposition
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017A conservative critic of the government calls on the opposition to build a world view and a project as solid and convincing as the one laid out by PM Orbán in his yearly address in Transylvania – even if he disagrees with the Prime Minister on most points. READ MORE