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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...

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Another 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...

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“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...

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Viktor 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...

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Rudolf 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...

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Tamás 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...

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George 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...

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What 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...

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Fidesz 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...

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The 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...

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Whither 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...

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Péter 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...

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Péter 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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