Opposition demands President Novák’s resignation over a controversial amnesty

A left-wing pundit thinks it was the fault of the ’system’ that President pardoned the helper of a paedophile offender last year. A pro-government columnist believes that the opposition side is more lenient towards paedophilia than the government.

Weeklies’ expectations for the New Year

Opposition-leaning commentators depict a pessimistic image of Hungary’s political future, while their pro-government counterparts hope that the country has left the difficulties of the past two years behind.

Physicist Ferenc Krausz – the second Nobel Prize winning Hungarian in as many days

Commentators are elated at the news that one day after Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize in medicine, Ferenc Krausz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with French physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, for their superfast pulses of light to study electron dynamics. Just like the previous day, the celebrations are ...

PM called Hadházy a ’sneaking, lurking fox’

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’.

Momentum takes student demonstrators to Brussels

A pro-government columnist lambasts Momentum MEP Anna Donáth for asking European Commission Vice President Vera Jourová to keep financial transfers to Hungary frozen until the government reforms the system of public education.

Weeklies on student demonstrators

Opposition-leaning columnists vituperate against the government, whom they accuse of ruining the system of public education while lavishing praise on the few hundred students who have staged demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction. A pro-government analyst finds it shameful for the opposition ‘to send students to the frontline’ to provoke the ...

Weeklies on Castle Hill demonstrations

Demonstrations in front of the Prime Minister’s office on Castle Hill in Buda have become the main topic of opposition politics over the past few weeks, but opinions diverge on their significance.

Protesters clash with police in front of PM’s office

After a group of young people were pepper-sprayed by police in front of the Prime Minister’s office on Wednesday night, news outlets disagree on the nature of the protest.

Hungary buys Vodafone

Liberal authors question the rationality of public ownership in the mobile phone industry, while a pro-government commentator sees the deal as a strategic step which bolsters Hungarian sovereignty.

Opposing narratives on 2022

A liberal and a right-wing author offer radically diverging interpretations on what the past year has meant in Hungarian politics.