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“We’re not Nazis, but …”: Human Rights First report on Hungary and Greece
As I reported a few days ago, members of the Hungarian right-wing media and pro-government “political scientists” were outraged because editorials in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal...
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The latest Hungarian plan to seal the border: It will be difficult
I am almost certain that, in the long run, the Orbán government will not come out well from its planned confrontation with the European Union. At the moment, the details of the government’s position...
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Viktor Orbán’s redefinition of the refugee crisis
Two days ago the Hungarian ministry of foreign affairs and trade posted a statement on its website that emphasized that “political refugees have always been accepted by Hungary.” Péter Szijjártó...
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The Hungarian media and the Greek crisis
On January 27, a day after the victory of Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó, who happened to be in Ankara, expressed his hope that “within the shortest possible...
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“El Camino de Balkan”: In the footsteps of the refugees from Greece to Hungary
Twelve days ago atlatszo.hu announced that a Hungarian journalist, who initially didn’t reveal his name, decided to go to Greece and from there join refugees traveling north to the Serb-Hungarian...
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Zsolt Bayer, a Fidesz hack, on the immigration crisis
It’s been a long time since I wrote about Zsolt Bayer, a notorious columnist for Magyar Hírlap, a pro-Fidesz publication of the more radical sort. One could say that tabloid journalists like Bayer are...
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Viktor Orbán in Brussels: Success or failure?
There is huge confusion in the Hungarian media over Viktor Orbán’s success or lack thereof at the EU summit yesterday. The Hungarian prime minister arrived in Brussels with a plan which, in his...
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Closing the Croatian-Hungarian border will not solve anything
It was telegraphed way before yesterday’s summit of the European Council that the key question would be how the European Union could entice Turkey not to allow the unlimited exodus of Pakistani,...
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Silence in Hungary since the mini-summit
The silence in the Hungarian media about the Leaders’ Meeting in Brussels has been deafening. After searching for well over an hour, I managed to find two op/eds and a couple of interviews with former...
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Viktor Orbán’s solution to the refugee crisis has been discarded
I really hate leaving the topic of the teachers’ revolt because I am convinced that this is an important event that may have lasting consequences in the political life of Hungary. Of course, we will...
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