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Conflicting conservative views on migration

Monday, July 20th, 2015

A commentator in the main pro-government newspaper says Hungary must slow down the current wave of migration and screen the migrants, while a Catholic economist thinks that humaneness and empathy are more important than anything else. READ MORE

A conservative takes Tsipras’s side

Friday, July 10th, 2015

A leading conservative pundit thinks the leftist Greek government (like the right-wing Hungarian one five years ago) is right when to reject further financial restrictions, which have only plunged the country deeper into debt. READ MORE

Freedom House downgrades Hungary

Monday, June 29th, 2015

Commenting on a recent report by Freedom House, a left-wing columnist speculates that Hungary will soon become ‘an island of unfreedom’ in Europe. A conservative pundit thinks that the Freedom House assessment is marked by political bias.
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Border fence debate rolls on

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

The press and the internet are awash with highly diverging opinions about the government’s plan to build a fence along the border with Serbia, in order to curb the continuing wave of migration directed from the Balkans towards Hungary and ultimately to the West. Opinions vary from approving the project to branding it as a cynical propaganda move. READ MORE

MSZP protests against the anti-immigrant fence

Saturday, June 20th, 2015

A conservative commentator debunks a “performance” held by Socialist politicians in front of the Fidesz headquarters, in protest against the fence the government plans to build along Hungary’s border with Serbia. The fence has been devised to halt the mounting migrant wave towards western Europe. READ MORE

The PM’s new rhetoric

Monday, June 8th, 2015
Conservatives welcome a promise by the Prime Minister to adopt a new, more conciliatory attitude, while left-wing observers call it a sham.

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Biszku’s trial back to square one

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

A conservative commentator is disgusted by the ruling of the Budapest Appeal Court to scrap a five year prison sentence handed down by the first instance court to Béla Biszku, who as a key member of the Communist Party leadership in 1956 was accused of responsibility for the massacre of unarmed demonstrators after the anti-Communist revolt was crushed by the Soviet Union. READ MORE

Death penalty issue still in focus

Monday, May 11th, 2015

The Prime Minister proposed a discussion on the death penalty and has got his way: the internet is bursting with comments on the issue. Most object to the idea of re-opening the debate, but some back the Prime Minister’s initiative. READ MORE

Nyíregyháza Roma neighbourhood school cleared of segregation

Saturday, April 25th, 2015

Left-wing papers fume against the Kúria (Supreme Court), after it overruled previous verdicts that doomed a Gypsy school in Eastern Hungary to closure, because most of its pupils are of Roma ethnic background. A conservative author welcomes the verdict. READ MORE

The Tapolca by-election and the ’central power field’

Monday, April 13th, 2015
Analysing the possible outcomes of Sunday’s Tapolca by-election, Hungarian weeklies all call attention to the mounting popularity of the far right Jobbik party. Some even suggest this may signal the demise of the undisturbed rule of Fidesz.

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