A liberal foreign policy expert believes that releasing one-third of the €30 billion suspended over rule-of-law concerns is part of a deal whereby Hungary will not oppose further EU payments to Ukraine. READ MORE
Tags: EU funds, rule of law, Ukraine
Political scientist Balázs Orbán MP who serves as political director in the Prime Minister’s office describes Hungary’s strategy as seeking ‘connectivity rather than division into blocks’. READ MORE
Tags: Balázs Orbán, diplomacy, US
The nationwide pro-government print daily devotes three articles to the figure of Hungary’s first democratically elected prime minister on the thirtieth anniversary of his death. READ MORE
Tags: Antall, régime change
A pro-government commentator welcomes the amendment as a first step towards normalizing the status of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. READ MORE
Critics of the government accuse it of unscrupulously manipulating electoral rules, while pro-government columnists dismiss such arguments as unsubstantiated and pitiful. READ MORE
An expert reads the result of the international survey as a sign that something has gone wrong in public education in European countries. READ MORE
A pro-government columnist blames EC President von der Leyen for ordering too many Covid vaccines. READ MORE
While two liberal commentators accuse Israel of applying disproportionate destructive force in reaction to the murderous rampage of Hamas in October, the editor of a Jewish review condemns them for equating terrorist attacks with a war aimed at uprooting a terrorist organisation.
Tags: anti-Semitism, Hamas, Israel
Pro-government commentators angrily rebuff the Ambassador’s claim that the billboards featuring Alex Soros are expressions of anti-Semitism. READ MORE
Tags: anti-Semitism, Pressman, US Embassy
The Foreign Minister of the first democratically elected government in modern Hungarian history sees the deceased former US Secretary of State and national security adviser as one of the rare architects of world politics and someone who was deeply interested in Hungarian history. READ MORE