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The meeting of Viktor Orbán and “his hero,” Matteo Salvini
A few days before Viktor Orbán met “his hero,” Matteo Salvini, secretary of the Northern League, Zsolt Bayer wrote an opinion piece in Magyar Idők in which he cautiously noted that Salvini’s position...
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Orbán predicts MSZP’s demise in his state of the nation address
Reading foreign assessments of Viktor Orbán’s major speeches is an intriguing exercise. Even though most of the articles are based on reports by large international news services like Reuters, AP, and...
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Hungarians’ changing priorities; shifts in the left-of-center media
Changing opinions on political issues Yesterday I saw a Hír TV news segment that I found intriguing. A woman reporter with a cameraman behind her stopped passersby wanting to know what the “man in the...
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Mária Schmidt’s “Israelification of Europe” and Mária M. Kovács’s review
Well-known pro-government “intellectuals” often create blogs on which they write articles paid for by the Orbán government. Mária Schmidt, by contrast, offers her services gratis. She doesn’t need the...
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Refugee crisis brings out best and worst in Hungarians
The following conversation was transcribed and published by Richard Field in The Budapest Sentinel, an English-language internet site that allows people unfamiliar with the Hungarian language to gain...
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Refugee claimants in Hungary and the EU: A statistical overview
According to figures released Thursday by Eurostat, as part of its quarterly report, Germany and Hungary received the most refugees of all member states in the European Union. The number of asylum...
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