An unexpected Move

Hungarian Roma have not really a say in politics. Orbán has his own Gypsy party called Lungo Drom (long way,) its chairman Flórián Farkas is FIDESZ member as well and since 2002 for the latter in parliament. Farkas is infamous for his corruption, he has set up a program to get Roma in work and […]

A Day in and about Brussels

The day of yesterday a lot of remarkable things for Hungary were related to Brussels. A NATO summit, the EU council seating, some clear words in the European Parliament, a decision there and of course money from Brussels. We should be used to the fact that Orbán always has 2 messages. One he uses at […]

Orbán’s “Think” Tank fighting OSCE

Our dear Éva has written something nice about the Alapjogokért Központ, the Centre of Fundamental Rights ►EN. A funny name regarding the fact that the regime hates the rights of the individual. Rights belong to the state and the state to the party. This FIDESZ sponsored institute has now being used as tool against the […]

Broken State Finances

Already last December Orbán tried to bury our state budget secretly ►HU. As usual late in the evening, just before Christmas he cut down the 2022 budget for about 1 % of the GDP. Only a few pet projects of the regime were affected, as the stadium in Pécs was stopped and purchase of Budapest […]

Orbán’s Christian Narrative – and the Reality of a Priest

Warning: In Hungary minors mustn’t read this! 18 + content about Orbán and a priest! In 2014 Orbán invented the illiberal state, as if democracy could be unfree. An expression used for whitewashing dictatorships before it became for Orbán the key expression for his autocrat rule. An entire election period Hungary’s regime media touted out […]

2015 Reloaded?

Through the last weeks we have seen a remarkable willingness to help refugees from Ukraine by the Hungarian people. And Orbán has published a spot that he personally welcomes refugees from Transcarpathia, at least if they are Hungarians. I am not talking about his complete lack of empathy in this video, but about the fact […]

Giertych: This is Orbán’s Plan

First I want to introduce with a few words Roman Giertych, a Polish politician. Deputy PM and minister of education in the PiS lead coalition governments under the PMs Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of LPR, the League of Polish Families, an extremely nationalist and anti-EU party from the far right, who in 2007 […]

Orbán’s Crossroads: three prospects for the future of Hungary

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s March 15th isolationist speech, and his government’s ongoing actions signalling its intention to continue along the path of Putinism, have worried me much more than I expected, in spite of having observed Hungarian politics quite closely for years and harbouring no illusions about the nature of the Fidesz regime. In […]

Fear of a Coward

EPPO, the European prosecution office, has proven yesterday that they are not fearful. Yesterday evening Boyko Borisov was arrested, for 12 years PM of Bulgaria, until people have voted him out last year. He is accused of corruption concerning EU funds. His minister of finance, the chairman of a parliament’s committee and a media adviser […]

Pupils and Teachers

Both pupils and teachers sided yesterday. After the teacher’s strike in January only resulted in an attack to be a leftist campaign action, while in fact a basic-school teacher never in his professional life will be paid as well as an unskilled worker in the warehouses of a retail company from his very 1st day. […]