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Reactions to PM Orbán’s annual Băile Tușnad address

Tuesday, July 25th, 2023

Opposition-leaning commentators find the Prime Minister’s speech flat and meaningless, though provocative, while pro-government columnists praise it as revelatory. READ MORE

Ferencváros crushed by Faroese team

Saturday, July 22nd, 2023

As Hungary’s most titled football team was eliminated from the Champions’ League by KÍ Klaksvik, a left-wing commentator draws political conclusions from the result. READ MORE

28th Budapest Pride event ends

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

The annual Pride March is followed by controversy over the ’Child Protection Law’. READ MORE

Gender war over a rainbow-coloured bench

Saturday, July 15th, 2023

A left-wing commentator blames the government for what she sees as increasing intolerance towards LGBTQ people, while a right-wing columnist supports equal rights for sexual minorities but condemns what he calls brazen provocations. READ MORE

Rift persists within NATO on Ukraine’s accession

Friday, July 14th, 2023

Commentators offer diverging interpretations of the outcome of the NATO summit in Lithuania as to Ukraine’s future membership in the alliance. READ MORE

PM called Hadházy a ’sneaking, lurking fox’

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

A left-wing commentator returns the adjectives to the Prime Minister himself, while a cabinet minister repeats the accusation that Hadházy, MP is a ‘mendacious fox’. READ MORE

Hungary and Poland oppose EU migration pact

Tuesday, July 4th, 2023

Pro-government commentators reject the planned relocation mechanism for asylum seekers from frontline states to other EU member countries, while a left-wing columnist believes that the idea will be pushed through, despite Hungarian and Polish resistance. READ MORE

Diverging opinions on Prigozhin’s abortive coup

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023

Commentators draw disparate although not entirely contradictory conclusions from the unprecedented attempt at a military takeover in Russia. READ MORE

Culture war seen as a lasting curse

Saturday, June 24th, 2023

A left-wing analyst believes the ideological divide within Hungarian society is too deep to disappear even in the event of a change in government. READ MORE

Further comments on US ambassador’s Pride address

Wednesday, June 21st, 2023

A pro-government commentator dismisses the ambassador’s comments as baseless, while a left-wing columnist believes that the government is senselessly confrontational in its foreign relations. READ MORE