Public TV airs live electoral debate
Saturday, June 1st, 2024In their first reactions, commentators find the debate of the eleven top candidates for the European election interesting although not particularly instructive. READ MORE
Archive for the ‘HírTV’ Category
Bishop Balog refuses to resign over the paedophile pardon case
Friday, February 16th, 2024A pro-government intellectual believes the Calvinist bishop should quit after President Novák appeared to have pardoned the helper of a paedophile offender partly under his influence. READ MORE
Pundit calls on MPs to reject Sweden’s accession to NATO
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023A veteran right-wing journalist hopes the Hungarian Parliament will refuse to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership in the wake of a Swedish video on the state of democracy in Hungary. READ MORE
Hungary and Austria spar over the release of human traffickers
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023As Hungary releases hundreds of foreigners convicted for human trafficking, a liberal and a conservative observer ponder whether the government’s decision was the right one – politically and juridically. READ MORE
Hungarian delegates to meet Swedish and Finnish lawmakers for talks on NATO accession bid
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023The government side finds it necessary to clarify the position of the two Nordic countries about Hungary before the Hungarian Parliament ratifies their accession to NATO, while a left-wing commentator decries what he sees as the loss of Hungary’s ‘last friend’ – Finland. READ MORE
US Embassy cautions Hungary against ‘moving apart’
Thursday, October 20th, 2022The leading pro-government daily describes as ’scandalous’ the US embassy reaction to ‘anti-American remarks’ by government and government-funded commentators. Meanwhile, a pro-government TV Station ’responds in kind’. READ MORE
Weeklies on fired weather forecasters
Monday, August 29th, 2022Commentators, including a fervent supporter of the government, are fiercely critical of the decision taken by the Minister for Technology to demote the director of the National Meteorological Service and her deputy because the storm they predicted for the night of August 20 didn’t materialise and the traditional St Stephen’s day firework display was postponed unnecessarily. READ MORE
US Embassy sends barely veiled message
Friday, July 29th, 2022As the US Embassy in Budapest has issued a statement in defence of diversity, following the Prime Minister’s controversial remarks last Saturday, some analysts have come to the defence of Mr Orbán. READ MORE
Theatre and Film University conflict rolls on
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020Reacting to a several thousand strong demonstration organised by students of the university on Sunday, and to their already week-long occupation of their school, opposition-leaning commentators see their protest as harbinger of a new era, while pro-government authors believe they are manipulated by left-liberal intellectuals trying to protect their leading positions in Hungarian cultural life. READ MORE
German ambassador summoned to Foreign Ministry
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020A pro-government analyst calls the German Cabinet Minister who said antisemitism was rampant in Hungary a serial detractor of Hungary while a liberal weekly regards the incident as a minor matter that should not be overblown. READ MORE