Press Roundup: Opposing Takes on Parliamentary Speaker’s Speech to National Security Officials An opposition-leaning commentator believes the Speaker called on the security services to interfere with internal politics and therefore should immediately... 2021.11.30.
“It Has Become Fashionable to Criticize Hungary” – E. Sylvester Vizi to Mandiner "I would expect more respect for the Hungarian people from the political elite that is attacking us," the former president... 2021.11.05.
Press Roundup: Storm of Accusations Over Spyware Allegations A prominent left-wing columnist and the leading pro-government daily give diametrically opposing interpretations of the Pegasus spyware scandal. Hungarian press... 2021.07.21.
Press Roundup: Government Accused of Using Spyware As the government stands accused of using spyware to monitor critical journalists and other individuals, a left-wing pundit likens PM... 2021.07.20.
Press Roundup: Conflicting Analyses on the Nature of the ‘Orbán Regime’ A renowned liberal economist believes Hungary is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship, while a conservative philosopher thinks that Prime... 2021.03.30.
Gyurcsány: Joint Opposition Can Win against Orbán’s ‘Autocratic System’ Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said in a keynote speech on Saturday that the decision by Hungary's... 2021.02.15.
Fidesz MP Németh Stresses Difference Between Democracies and Dictatorships A unique characteristic of a democracy is that such a system ensures more rights than those required under international standards,... 2020.12.16.
Deutsch: I Already Apologized to Weber, EPP Motion for Expulsion ‘Unjustified’ On the heels of an initiative for his explusion from the European People's Party (EPP), Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch explains... 2020.12.04.
Opposition MEPs in Die Zeit: Orbán ‘Trojan Horse of Dictators in Europe’ Europe cannot afford mistakes that could easily lead to the disintegration of the European Union, states the opinion article in... 2020.11.25.
State Secy to Zakharova: Hungary Freed Itself from Nazi, Communist Dictatorships Nazi and Communist dictatorships were horrid and inhumane regimes, and "we are glad that Hungary freed itself from both", Tamás... 2020.10.31.
US Ambassador: ‘Orbán Gov’t Not Totalitarian, Hungary Democracy’ Relations between Hungary and the United States could not be better, outgoing US Ambassador David B. Cornstein said in an... 2020.10.28.
MSZP: Hungarians ‘Fighting Quiet War of Independence’ against Fidesz Bertalan Tóth, co-leader of the opposition Socialist Party (MSZP), gave a speech ahead of Hungary's October 23 national holiday in... 2020.10.23.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Debate Over Rule of Law Continues Left-wing and liberal commentators accuse the government of waging a propaganda war in its handling of EU criticism of the... 2020.10.05.
Echoes of Revolutions Past: 1989 Hungary – 2020 Belarus The regime of the last dictator in Europe, Alexander Lukashenko, is on shaky legs, as protests against his controversial 80%... 2020.09.15.
Government Hesitates As Youth Orgs Refuse to Sign Statement Against Belarus Violence Amid growing pressure, the Fidesz-led government has yet to condemn or even take a stance at all in connection with... 2020.08.13.
Socialists Urge Euro Adoption Adopting the and thus "stabilising" the country's position in the European Union is "clearly" in Hungary's interest, opposition Socialist (MSZP)... 2020.07.06.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Is Hungary Still a Democracy? A liberal columnist suggests that Hungary is no longer a democracy. A centrist critic of the government agrees with much... 2020.06.22.
State Secy’s Op-ed in The Washington Post: Hungarian Democracy ‘Alive and Well’ "Hungarian democracy is alive and well, and we're succeeding in our fight against the novel coronavirus," State Secretary Zoltán Kovács... 2020.06.14.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Coronavirus Emergency ‘to End in mid-June’ A pro-government commentator believes that the termination of the emergency proves that the government did not want to misuse power.... 2020.05.28.
Gov’t Bills to End Special Emergency Powers on June 20th, May Allow Gov’t to Rule by Decree in Future During a Public Health Crisis The government has submitted a bill to Parliament declaring the end of the state of emergency, which, if passed, is... 2020.05.27.
Fidesz MEP: Rule of Law ‘Works Very Well’ in Hungary The rule of law "works very well" in Hungary, and Hungarian political discourse is one of the freest in the... 2020.05.23.
