14+ hour, 45+ min ago   (181+ words) Francis Fukuyama has held up Péter Magyar’s landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán as a model for Americans seeking to rebuke Donald Trump in November’s midterm elections, describing Hungary’s April vote as a ‘very great repudiation of Orbánism’. Speaking to Ezra…...

17+ hour, 14+ min ago   (327+ words) Leaks from Viktor Orbán’s closed-door speech at the Fidesz gathering in Kötcse on Saturday, 12 September, suggest that the former prime minister has no intention of stepping back from the leadership of either his party or the broader Hungarian right. According…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (657+ words) Support for the Tisza Party declined again within the margin of error in September, while Fidesz gained slightly and the share of voters without a party preference increased more significantly, according to a poll by Europion published on Wednesday. Tisza…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (453+ words) Hungary’s Parliament elected six of the nine members of the newly established Independent Public Media Board on Tuesday, including experts nominated by professional media organizations and the governing side. Lawmaker Judit Bayer was subsequently elected chair of the body tasked…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (314+ words) András Bíró-Nagy will take over responsibility for European Union affairs at the Prime Minister of Hungary’s Office from September. His expanded duties will include coordinating EU policy, strengthening Hungary’s relations with the Union, and representing Hungarian interests at the European…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (465+ words) Prime Minister Péter Magyar said his government has extended the ‘state of crisis due to mass migration’ until the end of the year, rejecting calls from human-rights NGOs to let the measure expire and complicating one potential legal route towards…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (727+ words) That framing soon became Magyar’s wider indictment of the NER, the acronym commonly used to describe Viktor Orbán’s System of National Cooperation. Holding the real decision-makers behind corruption, scandals, and the extraordinary enrichment of politically connected businessmen accountable developed into…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Speaking at a panel discussion featuring Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Magyar said the EU suffers from a ‘lack of political leadership’, is weighed down by a bureaucracy whose…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (817+ words) ‘Hungary commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács against the Ottoman Empire today, 29 August 2026. The date is crucial to Hungarian history and identity. But what exactly happened there that makes it so important?’ The post What Happened to Hungary…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (233+ words) The office will be able to trace assets, take over qualifying criminal cases, direct investigations and pursue prosecutions through assigned prosecutors. Its president will serve a six-year, non-renewable term and oversee the NVVH’s operation. Against that mandate, the selection of…...