4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (617+ words) something positive—progress, freedom, equality, democracy, and so forth. Reading Étienne de la Boétie,...1978), 119; or Alexis de Tocqueville’s in his Democracy in America, Vol II (Longmans, 1875), 92: ‘Not only does democracy cause each man to forget his ancestors, but it...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (220+ words) The following is a press release kindly provided to us by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS). The date recalls the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, signed on 23 August 1939. Each edition puts a spotlight on one person who found the courage…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (771+ words) To explain Polish politics to Hungarian (and not only Hungarian) readers, we also have to go back to 2005. The post-communist Democratic Left Alliance was losing power at that time—a party that would soon become as discredited as Ferenc Gyurcsány…...

5+ day, 2+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (674+ words) Four months later, the lesson looks rather different. An INSA poll published on 23 August puts the AfD nationally at 29 per cent, eight points ahead of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) at 21. In Saxony-Anhalt, which votes on…...

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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (518+ words) After the long-weekend national holiday of St Stephen’s Day, former prime minister Viktor Orbán and the loyalist core linked to him inside Fidesz are facing increasing pressure coming from within and outside the party. Fidesz MP János Pócs has already…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (144+ words) The following is an adapted version of an article written by Pál Péter Kolozsi, a research fellow at the Economy and Competitiveness Research Institute of the University of Public Service, originally published in Hungarian on the Ludecon blog of Ludovika....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (267+ words) Budapest’s districts most affected by the city’s social crisis are working together on proposals to address the situation, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Thursday. Karácsony said on Facebook that he had held talks with the mayors of several districts about…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (423+ words) The following is an adapted version of an article written by Gábor Kutasi, director of the Economy and Competitiveness Research Institute of the University of Public Service, originally published in Hungarian on the Ludecon blog of Ludovika.hu. At first…...