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Government plans to reintroduce border patrols

Saturday, August 22nd, 2015

Columnists on Left and Right discuss the government’s plan to criminalize illegal border crossing and to deploy special police units in order to patrol the frontiers and keep illegal migrants out. READ MORE

Left-wing fears over EU fund distribution

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

As Cabinet Minister Lázár announces plans for early EU grant applications, the leading left-wing daily fears that the hasty procedure will result in a mindless waste of resources. READ MORE

1300 billion for rural development

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

A pro-government commentator hopes that a new programme funded by the European Union will finally halt the progressive depopulation of rural Hungary. READ MORE

Conservatives on ‘EU solidarity deficit’

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

A right-wing columnist thinks that the EU lacks the solidarity which would be essential to set up a common migration framework. Another pro-government commentator fears that the current legislative framework helps western European countries to selectively admit highly skilled migrants – and return the rest to the peripheries of the EU. READ MORE

PM Orbán is ‘no black sheep’ in Europe

Thursday, July 30th, 2015

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

Call for European action on migration

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

A conservative columnist thinks that migration flows will force the European Left to reconsider its relation to the developing world, and abandon its former advocacy of  anti-colonialist ideologies. READ MORE

Further lessons of the Greek crisis

Monday, July 20th, 2015

Opinions diverge sharply on who is at fault for Greece’s financial difficulties and whether the solution accepted by the parties is a step forward or backward. A right-wing author thinks Hungary managed to avoid being plunged into a comparable crisis thanks to the unorthodox policies pursued by the government after 2010. READ MORE

Conflicting conservative views on migration

Monday, July 20th, 2015

A commentator in the main pro-government newspaper says Hungary must slow down the current wave of migration and screen the migrants, while a Catholic economist thinks that humaneness and empathy are more important than anything else. READ MORE

Border fence to be completed by November

Saturday, July 18th, 2015

As the authorities start building a ‘sample’ border fence section in southern Hungary, a conservative pundit explains why he believes boundless openness to the current wave of migration would be irresponsible. READ MORE

Greece and migration – a dual crisis

Thursday, July 16th, 2015

An international affairs analyst suggests that a joint European immigration strategy is  long overdue, but doubts if the EU can realistically be expected to produce one. It is understandable, she believes, that until that day member states including Hungary will act on their own. READ MORE