The Orbán government and the “Jewish question” by Karl Pfeifer
Karl Pfeifer is an Austrian journalist who as a child spent some time in Hungary and learned faultless Hungarian. His Hungarian friends call him Karcsi. You can read more about him here. * * * Viktor...
View ArticleAnother blunder by Fidesz-Jobbik: Naming a street after the anti-Semite...
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Viktor Orbán promised zero tolerance of antisemitism in Hungary. Although attendees of the World Jewish Congress appreciated the resolute words, they reserved...
View Article“What shall I call you?”* The political system of Viktor Orbán
You may recall that a few days ago I published a lecture of Gábor Demszky, former mayor of Budapest, delivered in the Library of Congress. After the text of the lecture I described an exchange between...
View ArticleViktor Orbán showed his cards and thus his critics can do the same
It is positively liberating that we no longer have to be careful about what we call Viktor Orbán’s brave new world. Until now even the fiercest critics of Orbán’s regime were reluctant to describe the...
View ArticleRudolf Ungváry on the fascistoid mutation in today’s Hungary, Part I
The political system introduced by Viktor Orbán never ceases to fascinate analysts and observers. Earlier we spent a considerable amount of time discussing Bálint Magyar’s theory of the post-communist...
View ArticleTamás Bauer on the task of the Hungarian opposition
I think I already mentioned a series of interviews that György Bolgár of Klubrádió initiated about a month ago. Four times a week he asks public figures critical of the present regime what advice they...
View ArticleGeorge Soros and George Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein
Ever since April 1, when thousands of hard-hitting Jobbik billboards appeared all over the country, a poster war of sorts has been going on in Hungary. The Jobbik campaign by all accounts irritated...
View ArticleWhat should we call the Orbán regime? According to some, fascism pure and simple
György Balavány is an interesting character. For years he worked for Magyar Nemzet, which between 2000 and 2015 faithfully served Fidesz and Viktor Orbán. Balavány was a sharp critic of...
View ArticleFidesz and the “neo-bolshevik” opposition
I would like to make a correction to my last post, in which I analyzed a double interview on foreign policy by Zsolt Németh and István Szent-Iványi. The interview appeared not in Magyar Hang, as I...
View ArticleThe storm created over calling the Orbán regime what it is–A fascist state
Before I move on to the reaction of the Orbán government and its media to The New York Times’s devastating article on the true nature of the Orbán regime, let’s take a quick look at the last couple of...
View ArticleWhither Hungarian foreign policy?
As I was mulling over the incredible number of pro-Trump and anti-Biden articles that have appeared in the last few days in the Orbán regime’s official newspaper, Magyar Nemzet, I tried to decipher the...
View ArticlePéter Márki-Zay in Brussels
When Péter Márki-Zay arrived in Brussels for a two-day visit, he was received with open arms by many influential EU politicians. Prior to his arrival, Timothy Garton Ash, the noted expert on East...
View ArticlePéter Márki-Zay scores points in Brussels
My general impression is that Péter Márki-Zay’s visit to Brussels was an unqualified success. Over three days, he had 20 meetings with such “really big guns” as Manfred Weber, leader of the European...
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