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President Sulyok accused of lying about his father

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

A liberal historian writes that the President’s father was a Nazi sympathiser, while a conservative author retorts that digging up the sins of the fathers of opponents is an unfair political practice. READ MORE

US Ambassador accuses the government of anti-Semitism

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Pro-government commentators angrily rebuff the Ambassador’s claim that the billboards featuring Alex Soros are expressions of anti-Semitism. READ MORE

Conflicting takes on the elections in Poland

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

A former liberal diplomat welcomes the victory of the opposition in Poland, while a pro-government commentator warns the Hungarian Left that it was not PM Orbán who lost his seat in Poland. READ MORE

The Gaza conflict compared to the war in Ukraine

Friday, October 13th, 2023

A right-wing commentator believes that the two wars are radically different in nature and thus require different solutions. READ MORE

Actor criticised for expressing shame at being Hungarian

Saturday, July 29th, 2023

A radical pro-government pundit thinks one must be insane to be ashamed of one’s Hungarian nationality. READ MORE

Conflicting views on the arrest warrant for President Putin

Tuesday, March 21st, 2023

Radical pro-government commentators dismiss the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Vladimir Putin as a useless exercise, while a leftist columnist welcomes it as at least a moral gesture. READ MORE

Fuel shortages reported

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

As several gas stations run out of fuel, a left-wing columnist accuses the government of creating a shortage by maintaining fuel price caps. A pro-government economist, on the other hand, blames shortages on the MOL oil company and calls on the government to place it under state control. READ MORE

Conflicting views on the Ukraine war

Monday, August 8th, 2022

Conservative and right-wing pundits accuse the West and the US of provoking Russia into war, adding that peace can be negotiated only by Washington and Moscow -a bullet point underlined by Viktor Orbán in his keynote speech to Republicans in Dallas. A liberal analyst, on the other hand, deems it crucial for the EU and NATO to stop Putin in order to avoid another world war. READ MORE

Opposing takes on the government’s windfall taxes

Saturday, May 28th, 2022

A liberal news site predicts that the newly announced special taxes will trigger an infringement procedure by the European Commission. Pro-government commentators, on the other hand, lambast the left-wing opposition for ‘taking the side of big corporations.’ READ MORE

More on PM Orbán’s Moscow visit

Friday, February 4th, 2022

A left-wing commentator thinks that President Putin’s demand that NATO pull back from Eastern Europe (to the 1997 status quo) means the Hungarian government can no longer sit on the fence. A pro-government pundit accuses those who side with Ukraine of treason. READ MORE