After several high-profile ministers and government MPs abstained from Tuesday’s vote on the bill to abolish Sunday shop closures, Index and Magyar Nemzet delve in intricate Kremlinology. READ MORE
Liberal pundits criticize both Right and Left for not confronting policies which they see as targeting the Roma who live in poverty. A Minister is criticized for his “unfortunate” statement on the Roma Holocaust. A Dutch-Hungarian psychologist calls for the publication of Hungarian crime statistics by ethnicity. READ MORE
Left-wing commentators think the new minister of the Ministry of National Resources lacks qualifications for the job, aside from the fact that he is an old friend of Viktor Orbán’s, while a centrist political analyst suggests that Zoltán Balog has gained enough experience in his current post to make a good Minister. READ MORE