Opposition loses by-elections
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022The Mayor of Budapest calls the results of Sunday’s local by-elections throughout the country ‘disheartening’. READ MORE
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Weeklies on the fallout of the war in Ukraine
Monday, June 20th, 2022Commentators try to make sense of the changes the war is triggering in Hungary’s international standing, in attitudes towards Russian culture as well as in Hungary’s national economy. READ MORE
Criticism of Ukraine’s accelerated EU accession
Saturday, June 18th, 2022A pro-government analyst depicts the EU plans to grant Ukraine fast track membership as an impossible enterprise. READ MORE
Ryanair and government trade barbs
Friday, June 17th, 2022A moderately pro-government news site writes that Ryanair’s CEO has been given a tough but fair answer to his harsh criticism of the new windfall tax imposed on airlines. READ MORE
Hungary beats England 4:0 in Wolverhampton
Thursday, June 16th, 2022Following Hungary’s successive impressive defeats of England, home and away in the UEFA Nations’ League, commentators praise the national team and decry the behaviour of English fans who booed the Hungarian national anthem. READ MORE
Budapest names street after Gyula Horn
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022Right-wing and liberal commentators are equally critical of the decision by the Budapest Municipal Council to name a street after former Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn. They oppose the decision on account of Horn’s past as a member of the communist militia set up after the 1956 revolution. READ MORE
Authorities launch probe into Ryanair
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022A left-wing commentator dismisses as futile the government’s effort to find out if Ryanair was justified in transferring its windfall tax onto passengers. READ MORE
Government submits draft budget for 2023
Thursday, June 9th, 2022A left-wing commentator accuses the government of proposing an illegitimate and extremely restrictive budget for 2023. His pro-government counterpart argues that the government will keep energy prices down and welfare spending high. READ MORE
Weeklies on the new government
Monday, May 30th, 2022After the swearing-in of the new Cabinet ministers last week, the weeklies try to make sense of the new composition of Prime Minister Orbán’s government. Two left-wing weeklies lament the sad state of the opposition. READ MORE
Opposing takes on the government’s windfall taxes
Saturday, May 28th, 2022A liberal news site predicts that the newly announced special taxes will trigger an infringement procedure by the European Commission. Pro-government commentators, on the other hand, lambast the left-wing opposition for ‘taking the side of big corporations.’ READ MORE