Orbán’s Hungary and NATO Membership

Hungary joined NATO on March 12th, 1999. Although this happened during the 1st Orbán government, the invitation from NATO side dates from July 1997, the referendum about joining was held on November 16th, 1997, which gave the Horn government a go from the voters. It was no coincidence that already before, on May 27th 1997, […]

Propagandamachine Causing Problems

The last days and weeks the propaganda machine has either lost direction, or is so much overdoing that the results are ridiculous. On January 11th, 2022 lakmusz was launched, Hungary’s 1st fact checking website. This is professionally and practically sustained by Agence France Press (AFP,) 444, and the Media Universalis Alapítvány, a foundation of Hungarian […]

Prosecuting Corrupt Politicians with Péter Polt in Office

On January 20th Péter Márki-Zay gave a long interview with Magyar Hang ►HU, I already quoted from. There he clearly told that he wants an anti-corruption authority with Ákos Hadházy at the top. Hadházy, a veterinarian, was member of the city council of Szekszárd for FIDESZ, when in 2013 Orbán forbade sale of tobacco products […]

Orbán: In April I’ll Give You Notes to Play

With this even for him strange comment Orbán opened the Magyar Zene Háza, the Hungarian House of Music. We remember that Orbán wants to change the largest park of Pest into a cultural quarter, Éva trough the years repeatedly covered this as well. Városliget is roughly 1 400 by 750 m small, about 1/3 of […]

Referendum

A referendum may be held if parliament votes in favour. Several ways are allowed to get to such a decision. Parliament has no choice and but to approve if signatures of at least 200 000 citizens are collected and verified. Within a few days in July 2021 first PM Orbán declared that we will have […]

A Vote for 729 Forint?

The infamous regulated price for chicken carcasses and a few other food items saves the average citizen 243 Forint (0.68 €) monthly Policy Agenda calculated ►HU. The decree is valid for 3 months, until the election month. I am afraid the administration costs for the groceries will be way higher than the loss of profit. […]

How Elections Work

“Nobody said it would be easy” one could quote Péter Márki-Zay ►HU, who announced to cancel his appearances because he has been tested positively on the corona virus. He said that he is lucky having only very light symptoms and he thanks that to his 3 doses of vaccine. Yesterday’s post caused reactions on the […]

Another Bad Day for Orbán in the European Parliament

Yesterday Orbán had another bad day in the European Parliament (EP). His FIDESZ was still part of the European Peoples Party (EPP) when the last elections took place and Orbán dreamt about a united far right block. We all know that the forecasts of the far right taking over the EP just didn’t happen. These […]

FIDESZ “Quality Management”

It is time to return to the case around the former state secretary in the ministry of justice Pál Völner I wrote about, who accepted bribes from the bar of bailiffs. This is a very lucrative business and Orbán has remodelled the complete structure of the foreclosure agencies. Today a law exam is needed for […]

Calls in Election Times

Updated. Yesterday Péter Márki-Zay called Orbán to discuss with him in a PM candidate debate. He stated ►HU: “The people, be they pro-government voters or opponents, deserve to be able to listen to who wants to be Hungary’s prime minister for the next four years, so I invite Viktor Orbán to a debate. Let’s stand […]