First appraisals of 2020
January 1st, 2021
Political commentators on both sides of the political divide depict 2020 in dark colours and brace for even tougher clashes next year. READ MORE
Tags: opposition, pandemic
Covid vaccinations underway
December 31st, 2020
As Hungary begins vaccinating medical personnel against Covid-19, a pro-government columnist disag
Tags: coronavirus, vaccination
Right-wing columnist on Navalny poisoning
December 30th, 2020
A pro-government commentator doesn’t believe that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Russian secret services. READ MORE
Tags: Navalny, Russia, secret services
A left-liberal take on electoral chances
December 29th, 2020
An 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
Tags: opposition
Prospects of the joint opposition in the 2022 election
December 28th, 2020
A pro-government pundit suggests that the opposition alliance is held together only by hatred of the Orbán government. Two centrist pundits debate the opposition’s vision. READ MORE
Tags: Gyurcsány, opposition, Orbán
Christmas in the shadow of Covid-19
December 24th, 2020
In their Christmas opinion articles, a conservative and a liberal commentator ponder the broader implications of the pandemic. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, environment, opposition
Opposition parties join forces
December 23rd, 2020
As the main opposition parties announce their agreement to run jointly in the 2022 Parliamentary election, a pro-government and a left-wing pundit assess their chances. READ MORE
Tags: 2022, opposition
PM Orbán announces new economic action plan
December 22nd, 2020
Echoing the opposition parties, a left-wing commentator accuses the government of ‘bleeding dry’ local councils by reducing local business taxes. A pro-government columnist, on the other hand, accuses the opposition of the ‘absurd tendency’ to increase taxes in times of economic hardship. READ MORE
Tags: economy, Karácsony, loan, municipalities, Orbán, taxes
Weeklies on rule of law deal
December 21st, 2020
Commentators 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
The latest storm: Family Minister’s video on women
December 19th, 2020
Opinions diverge on the video in which Katalin Novák, Minister for Family Affairs, encourages women to enjoy their womanhood as daughters, wives and mothers without necessarily considering men as competitors. READ MORE