Gellért Rajcsányi: Hungary’s Fidesz has lost its buoyancy — Can it ever recover?
Based on the results of the recent Tapolca by-election (although no longer concentrating directly on this vote), one can argue that this is yet another sign that Fidesz has lost its political buoyancy....
View ArticleMandiner.hu and Zsolt Bayer’s genocidal hate speech
I have written about Zsolt Bayer before in the HFP. Our readers may recall that he is a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party and a prominent pro-Orbán publicist who recently asserted that the Syrian...
View ArticleActress Mari Törőcsik on racism and refugees
One of Hungary’s most celebrated actresses, Mari Törőcsik, is turning 80 this month. When she was approached by the conservative Mandiner website for an interview, she indicated that speaking about...
View ArticleHungarian “expert” opinions and conspiracy theories — Courtesy of...
László Bogár, an economist, university lecturer and pro-government publicist, went on public television in Hungary, in order to explain to viewers how the dastardly United States is using the refugee...
View ArticleÁkos Gergely Balogh: Of mothers and daughters, and the villainy of anonymity
Earlier this week, the pro-Fidesz 888.hu news site stooped to a level perhaps never before seen in Hungarian politics (so we’re talking pretty low) and published a series of completely nude,...
View ArticleWidespread solidarity after deliberate destruction of Hungary’s Népszabadság
Vienna Capital Partners, the Austrian private equity investor, which owns the firm that published Hungary’s now defunct Népszabadság daily, seems to be providing such a stark example of corporate greed...
View ArticleHungarian Socialist Party president won’t rule out his party’s disappearance...
Complete dysfunction continues in the Hungarian left-centre opposition and the president of the Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt–MSZP) appeared to exacerbate the situation with a...
View ArticleJobbik leader Gábor Vona: Homosexuals can be proud
“Is heterosexuality difficult for you?”–asked conservative journalist András Stumpf of Gábor Vona, the leader of the far-right Jobbik party, in a video interview appearing on the party’s online TV...
View ArticleAn inside look at the Fidesz propaganda machine
This morning, a friend from Budapest sent me a digital copy of a print newspaper entitled Lokál, distributed free of charge at metro stations, train stations, public places in Hungary and also...
View ArticleA conservative’s wish list for Viktor Orbán’s third consecutive government
Milán Constantinovits is a columnist whose work often appears on the conservative Mandiner news site and he is also a linguist and an author. This week, he published a type of “wish list” of areas that...
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