Critics lambast the government for its stance on Ukraine and increasingly conflictual attitude towards NATO and EU allies, while pro-government commentators take the cabinet’s side in its conflicts with international partners. READ MORE
As the Hungarian Parliament votes for Finland’s NATO membership but ‘awaits further assurances from Sweden’, a liberal and a left-wing commentator believe the government side is inconsistent in its attitude towards the plans of the two Nordic countries to join NATO. READ MORE
The government side finds it necessary to clarify the position of the two Nordic countries about Hungary before the Hungarian Parliament ratifies their accession to NATO, while a left-wing commentator decries what he sees as the loss of Hungary’s ‘last friend’ – Finland. READ MORE
Opinions diverge on the rights and wrongs of the Hungarian government, but commentators agree that there is growing friction between Hungary and its partners in the Western alliance. READ MORE
Commentators take it for granted that despite a two-week delay, parliament will ratify the request of the two Nordic countries to join NATO. READ MORE
As the government prepares to announce a limited reopening of businesses and schools, a conservative columnist contends that European countries will follow Sweden’s model to keep their economies running, even if this implies more deaths. READ MORE
A pro-government columnist finds it strange for an EU member country to intervene against another in an infringement suit and thinks that the action of the Swedish government was prompted by internal political considerations. READ MORE
Columnists commenting on the weekend Swedish and Brandenburg elections agree that the rise of the far-right is inevitable even in western European countries which were not hit hard by the economic crisis. The growing popularity of far-right radicalism is a good reminder for moderate parties that they should pay more attention to growing inequality and lack of opportunity. READ MORE