Hungary is NO Democracy

OSCE, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, always employs observers to elections in its territory through its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ODIHR. OSCE was born during the cold war and is the 1st institution that connected all Europe and did not end at the iron curtain. In democratic countries the […]

The Most Christian Protector of National Minorities and Friends

Today I want to discuss a strange friendship the Orbán regime maintains with another dictatorial regime. Pretty much unnoticed from the press Péter Szijjártó visited Azerbaijan. That the minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade visits foreign countries is part of the job, but the announcements were remarkable. To understand this let’s have a short […]

Arrogance of Power

The regime and its accomplices in the media are state funded and have almost unlimited funds to indoctrinate the people. Only public TV got an enlargement of budget of 12 and 24 billion the last 2 years. Public is a great title, in fact it is a spokes organ of the government only, infamous for […]

Orbán should stay in Moscow!

No, not my words. Orbán’s visit in Russia took a lot of attention already before he went. Unity for Hungary called in the midst of Ukraine crises: Orbán, don’t go to Moscow! But if he goes, he shouldn’t come home again! In the three decades since the change of regime, Hungary’s sovereignty has never been […]

Strike!

These lines would never have been written if Hungary would be a democratic country, if this happened in Italy or in France. This would not have been a big issue, we have no huge piles of garbage in the streets that are not collected rotting away, our public transport didn’t brake down for weeks, or […]

Rural Panic?

UPDATED. As we might remember Péter Márki-Zay ran in the by-elections for post as mayor in Hódmezővásárhely 2018 as independent candidate sustained by all opposition parties. The city was headed by FIDESZ/KDNP since 1990, from 2002 to 2012 the former FIDESZ top politician János Lázár was mayor, he only resigned when he became minister. Lázár […]

Orbán in Madrid

Again a meeting of Europe’s extreme right parties took place on Friday and Saturday. Again homeless Orbán not only looked for a new European party, since his FIDESZ left the conservative EPP (European Peoples Party) to avoid being thrown out, but tried to be the centre of a new joint extremist party. This time Vox […]

Disregard of Law, Disregard of Judges

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has picked February 16th as the date when the verdict in the case Hungary vs. EU concerning the rule of law mechanism will be announced. We remember that the EU had hardly any means to bring a country back onto the rails when it went off the track of […]

Corona and Populism

The Kiel Institute has made a research about the handling of the pandemic by populist governments, including Hungary. Their press release: COVID-19 pandemic: under populist governments, risk of death is higher 27.01.2022 Populist governments perform worse than non-populist governments in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. This applies, for example, to countries such as […]

Meddling in Hungarian Elections from the USA

I reported about the obscure theories that the CIA would meddle into our the elections to oust Orbán, a story foreign minister Szijjártó promoted before he declared that this hadn’t been the case and that he was “misunderstood.” With other words the minister was afraid to repeat a propaganda lie in American TV, however the […]