Brexit: what comes next?
Monday, June 27th, 2016Commentators across the political spectrum assess the implications of Brexit for the EU, and try to guess what it all means for Hungary. READ MORE
Archive for the ‘Heti Válasz’ Category
Hungary in Europe 2016
Monday, June 13th, 2016Hungarian pundits are overwhelmed by football fever, as Hungary makes it into the European Championships for the first time in 44 years. READ MORE
The ‘soft power’ of George Soros
Monday, June 6th, 2016Conservative columnists agree with the government that George Soros and his network are keeping the Hungarian government under pressure. A liberal and a centrist analyst accuse the government of fomenting hatred and creating conspiracy theories. READ MORE
Uproar over first statement by new Austrian Chancellor on Hungary
Thursday, May 26th, 2016A conservative columnist is outraged by a remark attributed to Mr Christian Kern who was quoted to have accused Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán of running a state built on Führerprinzip. Verbatim transcripts show that Mr Kern’s remark was milder than reported. READ MORE
Parliament approves referendum on EU migrant quotas
Friday, May 13th, 2016The leading pro-government daily welcomes the referendum against mandatory EU migrant redistribution quotas, a conservative columnist likens the EU to dictatorships while a liberal columnist accuses the government of fomenting hatred. READ MORE
Partisan divide blamed
Monday, May 2nd, 2016A conservative pundit warns that actors on both sides of the political divide tend to see the devil in each other and offer mutually unrealistic scenarios to explain history and current events.
The balance of two years in government
Monday, April 11th, 2016A liberal analyst thinks Hungary has deviated from its strategic goal of catching up with the most advanced countries, while a pro-government pundit sees the past two years as a succession of positive developments in the economy. READ MORE
Béla Biszku dies at 94
Monday, April 4th, 2016A conservative and a liberal columnist remember the Communist hardliner, who was found guilty of involvement in war crimes. READ MORE
Migrant pact between the EU and Turkey
Monday, March 21st, 2016Commentators fear that the deal struck at the European summit with Turkey will be hard to implement in practice and might provoke risky consequences. READ MORE
President refuses to sign controversial laws
Friday, March 11th, 2016A day after János Áder sent bills restricting public scrutiny both of foundations run by the National Bank and the postal services to the Constitutional Court for review, Heti Válasz worries about government policies which it believes could undermine the party’s own power base, while Magyar Nemzet urges the inner opposition within Fidesz to come forward. READ MORE