A liberal economist thinks closing schools would be a useful step to slow down the spread of an epidemic and thus help the health service cope with the disease. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, health care, schools
As the number of patients who have tested positive with coronavirus is mounting slowly, an anti-government commentator fears that Hungary’s medical infrastructure is inadequate to cope with a possible outbreak of the epidemic. READ MORE
A pro-government historian welcomes two Austrian newspaper articles whose authors admit that PM Orbán was right five years ago, with his lonely stand among European leaders against mass immigration. READ MORE
As the number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Hungary grows, pundits across the political spectrum ponder the broader social and political implications of the epidemic. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus
A pro-government and a left-wing columnist claim in unison that former Prime Minister Gyurcsány is becoming the leader of the opposition. READ MORE
Tags: 2022, Democratic Coalition, election, Gyurcsány, MSZP, opposition
A pro-government commentator finds both Biden and Sanders too senior to revitalize the Democratic Party. A left-wing columnist thinks that the Democrats need to show unity to defeat President Trump – at any price. READ MORE
A pro-government columnist finds the Greek reaction to thousands of asylum-seekers trying to cross its borders brutal but understandable. A left-wing pundit suspects that the Hungarian government cannot protect the country either from illegal migration or from the coronavirus. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, Greece, migration, Turkey
A conservative columnist finds it sad that the Hungarian minority will be left without ethnic representation in the Slovak Parliament as a result of the competition between the two Hungarian parties. READ MORE
Tags: Slovakia, transborder politics
A left-wing commentator finds the government’s coronavirus emergency plans wanting. A pro-government columnist welcomes the government’s decision to temporarily suspend entry to two Transit Zones on the Hungary-Serbia border, as one of a series of measures to reduce the risk of coronavirus entering the country. READ MORE
Tags: coronavirus, health, migration
A pro-government commentator believes that the idea of reopening the Hungarian language service of Radio Free Europe must have come from the representatives of the ‘deep state’ within the US State Department. READ MORE
Tags: Radio Free Europe, Trump, US