Chinese electric cars to be built in Hungary
Saturday, November 11th, 2023A pro-government author welcomes the giant Chinese investment project Hungary has almost certainly snitched from Germany. READ MORE
Archive for the ‘Mandiner’ Category
Weeklies on the meagre chances of the opposition
Monday, November 6th, 2023As half a dozen opposition parties are busy building their own identities rather than preserving the alliance that failed to bring them to government in last year’s election, commentators tried to make sense of it all. READ MORE
Weeklies on the solidity of the position of the Hungarian government
Monday, October 30th, 2023Opinions sharply diverge on the issue as well was on the chances of the opposition to win an election in the foreseeable future. READ MORE
Weeklies on Poland and 1956
Monday, October 23rd, 2023The Hungarian revolution on 23 October 1956, started with demonstrations of solidarity with the Polish revolt against communism in Poznan. For a short time, the two peoples were on the same wavelength. Today that is not the case, since PM Orbán’s Polish allies were voted out of office in last Sunday’s elections. READ MORE
Ruling party loses election in Poland
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023Commentators see the result as a big loss for Hungary’s right-wing government. READ MORE
Weeklies on Israel’s war against Hamas
Monday, October 16th, 2023Commentators condemn the bloodbath perpetrated by Hamas militants in Israel and ponder the possible outcomes of the conflict. READ MORE
Hungary condemns Hamas attack on Israel
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023As political leaders on both sides assure Israel of their solidarity after the massive terror attacks on its population, commentators paint a gloomy picture of the near future in the region. READ MORE
Weeklies on the decline of religious faith
Monday, October 9th, 2023A liberal commentator suggests that the number of believers is decreasing in Hungary because the message of the Gospel is less and less credible for modern people. A conservative columnist, on the other hand, invites religious leaders and thinkers to seriously analyse what has gone wrong. READ MORE
Physicist Ferenc Krausz – the second Nobel Prize winning Hungarian in as many days
Thursday, October 5th, 2023Commentators are elated at the news that one day after Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize in medicine, Ferenc Krausz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with French physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier, for their superfast pulses of light to study electron dynamics. Just like the previous day, the celebrations are accompanied by political remarks. READ MORE
Fico wins elections in Slovakia but needs allies
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023Commentators recall the ‘anti-Hungarian’ measures of the winner during his first term as prime minister, while a pro-government columnist welcomes Mr Fico’s stance against arms deliveries to Ukraine. READ MORE