Rejecting Weber and Timmermans may have been a mistake
Viktor Orbán, in his quick interview right after the marathon negotiations over the European Union’s top leadership, said nothing about the new commission president’s political background and...
View ArticleOrbán’s “great diplomatic victory” and a possible exit from EPP
Today I will cover two topics that Viktor Orbán discussed in his regular fortnightly interview on Kossuth Rádió this morning. The first is Olivér Várhelyi’s becoming commissioner of neighborhood policy...
View ArticleDecrees that have nothing to do with the coronavirus pandemic
In the dead of night, after parliament passed “On protecting against the coronavirus” and President János Áder signed it into law after two hours of “hard constitutional scrutiny,” Zsolt Semjén, deputy...
View ArticlePlenty of noise on the western front, but will action follow?
At the moment, one cannot complain about the lack of attention being paid to Viktor Orbán’s brazen attempt to establish an undisguised dictatorship where he, as prime minister, can govern by decree...
View ArticleThe Orbán government is under fire in the European Parliament
Yesterday we heard the welcome news that four European Parliament political groups — the European People’s Party, Renew Europe (formerly the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats), the Alliance of...
View ArticleViktor Orbán’s new enemy: Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, II
Yesterday I introduced Gerald Knaus, chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), whom Magyar Nemzet fingered as the man responsible for Viktor Orbán’s being unfairly and undeservedly labeled a...
View ArticleViktor Orbán’s battle cry against liberalism and the European Union
Viktor Orbán is frustrated. The pandemic “decimated” his opportunities to spread his message through his usual summer political workshops. “Parliamentary jostling” and “modern-day soundbite-driven...
View ArticleA lethal game of chicken?
The threat of a veto by Poland and Hungary of a “bold and widely welcomed leap in collaboration” has been widely condemned by most EU politicians as well as by the leaders of those countries that are...
View ArticleIntroducing Tamás Deutsch, successor to József Szájer as leader of Fidesz in EPP
In my database I found close to 800 articles on EPP-Fidesz relations but practically nothing on Tamás Deutsch, who has been a Fidesz MEP for the last eleven years. The minimal interest in Deutsch is...
View ArticlePéter Márki-Zay in Brussels
When Péter Márki-Zay arrived in Brussels for a two-day visit, he was received with open arms by many influential EU politicians. Prior to his arrival, Timothy Garton Ash, the noted expert on East...
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