A conservative columnist thinks that migration flows will force the European Left to reconsider its relation to the developing world, and abandon its former advocacy of anti-colonialist ideologies. READ MORE
Commentators find PM Orbán’s speech focusing on illegal migration at Fidesz’s annual summer university more moderate and cautious than his addresses in previous years. READ MORE
As a former far-right leader is suspected of trafficking illegal migrants, the leading left-wing daily accuses the Right of fomenting xenophobia. A conservative columnist on the other hand thinks that Jobbik may have benefitted financially from illegal migration. READ MORE
As the National Bank concludes its easing cycle by cutting the base interest rate to 1.35 per cent, a conservative columnist contends that the MNB has helped economic growth significantly, and, despite leftist fears, the Forint has not been weakened by the rapid sequence of rate cuts.
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
An international affairs analyst suggests that a joint European immigration strategy is long overdue, but doubts if the EU can realistically be expected to produce one. It is understandable, she believes, that until that day member states including Hungary will act on their own. READ MORE
A pro-government author accuses the leaders of the continent of showing almost limitless tolerance towards illegal migrants and thus opening the gates of Europe to ‘Muslim conquest’. READ MORE
A right-wing commentator compares the mood of the Greek public to the way Hungarians felt after 1995, in the aftermath of a stiff austerity package introduced by Lajos Bokros, then Socialist Finance Minister and now Conservative member of the European Parliament. READ MORE
A pro-government commentator complains that the western press relays a false picture of what is happening in Hungary and castigates efforts by the Hungarian government to protect itself – and Europe – from the current wave of mass migration. READ MORE
With the Hungarian government embroiled in an international controversy over migration, commentators both on Left and Right point to the lack of a common and fair EU policy. READ MORE