As Angela Merkel is named person of the year by Time magazine, and the Economist features PM Orbán alongside Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, commentators ruminate on the growing rift between liberal elites and their opponents. READ MORE
As terrorism alerts are announced in Europe and Brussels is closed off for days, columnists on both Left and Right ponder how much freedom we should sacrifice for the sake of security. READ MORE
Leading commentators throughout the media still concentrate their wits on the migrant issue. Hungarians rarely shows such an intense interest in public affairs as they do towards migration at present. READ MORE
Analysts ponder the implications of the latest surge in migrants: on some recent days the Hungarian authorities have had to take care of over three thousand migrants, well beyond what even expanded reception centres and registration offices can cope with. How will the current flow of migrants affect the future of Hungary and of Europe? READ MORE
As the government tries to divert the current massive migration wave from Hungary, commentators tend to agree that Europe cannot take more migrants without seriously jeopardising its way of life. Opinions differ solely on whether that is inevitable or not. READ MORE
A conservative commentator welcomes the creation of provisional migrant care centres next to three Budapest railway stations, and argues that the best the authorities can do is to alleviate the problem. READ MORE
A liberal commentator claims that PM Orbán’s critics are mistaken when they assume that the Hungarian Prime Minister’s views on migration are unusual and marginal. READ MORE
A pro-government author accuses the leaders of the continent of showing almost limitless tolerance towards illegal migrants and thus opening the gates of Europe to ‘Muslim conquest’. READ MORE
A pro-government commentator complains that the western press relays a false picture of what is happening in Hungary and castigates efforts by the Hungarian government to protect itself – and Europe – from the current wave of mass migration. READ MORE
Népszava agrees with left-wing politicians who accuse the government of building a new Iron Curtain, by planning to build a fence along the border with Serbia to prevent migrants from crossing into Hungary. Napi Gazdaság argues that Europe must fortify its outer borders if it does not want to be overwhelmed. READ MORE