Criticism of Gyurcsány’s ‘there will be no mercy’ comment
Saturday, April 10th, 2021Pro-government commentators take Mr Gyurcsány’s threat at face value, compare him to past communist executioners and question his sanity. READ MORE
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Orbán, Salvini and Morawiecki plan a new right-wing alliance
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021Commentators ponder the chances of the three leaders to unite most European parties to the right of the European People’s Party after their meeting in Budapest on 1st April where they agreed to meet regularly and discuss topical issues. READ MORE
Tentative plans for a ‘retirement bond’
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021A left-wing commentator supports the idea of a government bond that would stimulate savings to complement future old-age pensions. READ MORE
Rollout of Chinese Covid vaccine begins
Thursday, February 25th, 2021As family doctors start inoculating hundreds of thousands of Hungarians with the Chinese anti-Covid vaccine, a liberal news site finds government communication on the Sinopharm vaccine confusing, while a pro-government outlet praises the jab. READ MORE
A left-wing take on the state of the Visegrad Group
Saturday, February 20th, 2021A left-wing commentator thinks that the V4 has abandoned its original aims and lacks internal cohesion, and therefore has no future. READ MORE
First appraisals of 2020
Friday, January 1st, 2021Political commentators on both sides of the political divide depict 2020 in dark colours and brace for even tougher clashes next year. READ MORE
Right-wing columnist on Navalny poisoning
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020A pro-government commentator doesn’t believe that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Russian secret services. READ MORE
A left-liberal take on electoral chances
Tuesday, December 29th, 2020An op-ed article in the nationwide left-wing daily suggests that the opposition should abandon its cosmopolitan rhetoric and produce less compromised leaders to stand a fair chance of defeating Fidesz. READ MORE
Weeklies on rule of law deal
Monday, December 21st, 2020Commentators try to make sense of the agreement reached last week on rule of law conditionality of EU financial transfers to member states which enabled Hungary and Poland to abandon their threat to veto the seven-year Union budget and the Covid recovery scheme. READ MORE
Hungarian paper defends Romanian referee in racism row
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020As the Romanian press praises Magyar Nemzet for taking up the defence of a Romanian referee shamed even by his own government, a conservative analyst is outraged by what he sees as attempts by international bodies at policing national languages. READ MORE