Hungary is Russia’s new bastion in Europe
Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a foreign policy analyst and Member of Parliament affiliated with the centre-left Együtt (Together) Party. Ms. Szelényi argues that through Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s war...
View ArticleGeorge Soros becomes the Orbán regime’s boogeyman
What the highest ranking representatives of the Orbán government are doing by invoking the name of the 85 year old American-Hungarian billionaire philanthropist George Soros, as the secret source of...
View ArticleHungarian-Americans agree with President Clinton: Orbán is a Putin-clone
A couple of days ago President Bill Clinton talked about the Hungarian and Polish governments during a rally in New Jersey. “Poland and Hungary – two countries that would not be free but for the United...
View ArticleHungary’s prime minister endorses Donald Trump
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán became the first sitting leader of a European Union country to formally endorse Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. Speaking at a gathering of right-wing...
View ArticleViktor Orbán: Hillary Clinton’s party represents death for Hungary
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán did not mince his words on Tuesday in Budapest, at a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern. On the same day that Hillary Clinton formally...
View ArticleMeet Placido Domingo’s new friends – Europe’s authoritarian leaders
We all know and admire the art of Maestro Placido Domingo, the great opera singer, conductor and musical director. He was born in Spain, raised in Mexico; his singing career blossomed in the United...
View ArticleHungarian government opens a can of worms in Montreal
Leaders of the European Union have been scratching their heads for years about Hungarian strongman, Viktor Orbán’s civil rights abuses, and anti-liberal conduct. This past week, and on the eve of the...
View ArticleViktor Orbán visits Pope Francis — And Fidesz supporters attack the Pontiff...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán appears to have had an audience with Pope Francis and the Hungarian leader–whose government has explicitly gone against the message of compassion that the Catholic pontiff...
View ArticleViktor Orbán is not welcome in the US on the 60th Anniversary of the 1956...
A small Hungarian-American group has started a letter-writing campaign to convince President Obama to receive Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, at the White House when he comes to Washington in...
View ArticleNo Olympics for Budapest? Hungarian journalist proposes referendum to oppose...
Hungarian journalist Katalin Erdélyi submitted a referendum proposal to the National Election Commission, in the hope of giving Hungarian citizens the right to vote on whether Budapest should continue...
View ArticleHungary’s foreign minister furious after demand for country’s expulsion from...
Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, was visiting Moldova Tuesday morning, when he commented on statements made by Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister, Jean Asselborn, who suggested that Hungary...
View ArticleSlomó Köves – Hungary’s racist “Chabad Rabbi”
Slomó Köves is 37 years old and he claims to be a Rabbi. I’m not so sure. Recently he willingly joined Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s xenophobic Prime Minister while Orbán declared that no refugees can enter...
View ArticleHungary is free to follow the British road and leave the European Union
Hungarians need to comprehend that their country cannot simply enjoy the financial and economic benefits of membership in the European Union–they must be willing to participate in joint projects and...
View ArticleNew poll spells trouble for Orbán ahead of Hungary’s referendum
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s national referendum against so-called EU-wide “migrant quotas”, scheduled for October 2nd, will likely be invalid, with fewer than 50% of eligible voters casting ballots....
View ArticleViktor Orbán: Without Hungary, Europe would have already fallen
Hungary’s largest free circulation print daily, Lokál, published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, three days before the government’s anti-migrant referendum. Lokál is published by the...
View ArticleViktor Orbán will disregard referendum result — Announces immediate...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced after his anti-migrant referendum was declared invalid by the National Election Office that he intends to disregard the result and will bring forward a proposal to...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau and the Orbán government’s war on liberal values
By: András B. Göllner As the Hungarian government’s anti-liberal, anti-refugee referendum campaign headed into its home stretch, liberal and progressive leaders from around the world, held their own...
View ArticleStrongman Orbán’s latest publicity stunt: a midnight terror exercise
I start to think that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his inner circle have lost touch with reality. Police forces conduct anti-terror training exercises in other EU countries, but it is unprecedented...
View ArticleOrbán is misreading Trump – he might be in for a big surprise
In September Hungary’s Ambassador to Washington Réka Szemerkényi met Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump confidant, to express Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s admiration and support for Mr. Trump....
View ArticleHungarian far-right leader Gábor Vona accused of homosexual orgies
One of the relatively refreshing aspects of Hungarian politics until recently was that, broadly speaking, the personal lives of politicians were not paraded before the general public, and the public...
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