Calling us names doesn’t help
In the past week a number of European leaders have come out against the fence on the southern border of Hungary. Among the “interesting” comments was Italian Prime Minister Matteo[…]
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The Brief History of the Week
The news that made headlines
Presenting in one concise package the week’s most important and fascinating national stories, whether they be economic, political, cultural, sporting or among the hundreds of other happenings that go on[…]
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The war next door
Interview with Ukraine’s Chargé d’affaires in Hungary, Mihajlo Junger
It is just over a year since Russian-leaning Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych fled the country after lengthy and bloody protests in Kiev because he reneged on signing a political and[…]
Seeking solutions
The government should overcome the following problems during the next six months
After the municipal elections in October, support for Fidesz has started to decline spectacularly. A series of government failures and internal conflicts have suddenly shaken the dominance that had looked[…]
Their guess is as good as anybody’s
Véleményvezér’s predictions for 2015
The opinion blog of news portal 444.hu, Véleményvezér (opinion leader), predicted in early 2014 the year’s important issues. As their predictions were correct in many cases, here are their thoughts[…]
Orbán ‘second to Putin for corruption’
One poll our all-conquering prime minister couldn’t quite win
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been named as a runner-up in corruption after Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit organisation of[…]
Tsar Putin and his Crimea theft
Péter und Lyubov Földessy moved to Budapest in 2001 as Protestant missionaries from Munkács, Ukraine. “Putin wants a war. He thinks that he is the tsar who has to rebuild the Soviet Union,” Lyubov says. “The Russians who support him are paralysed by his lies.”
The world had learned only now that the conflict had reached this stage what kind of influence Russia had on Ukraine, she says. Moscow had not been prepared for the[…]
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