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As the public Trump impeachment hearings get underway, Hungary retreats on...
Yesterday, Zsolt Németh, the Fidesz chairman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, made a surprise announcement. It is now time for Ukrainian-Hungarian dialogue at the highest level, he...
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Doing business with a Russian company: The sad story of the Budapest metro cars
Népszava reported on January 3 that the Budapest Transit Authority (BKV) was forced to recall 18 of the 222 metro cars that the Russian company Metrovagonmash delivered to the City of Budapest to the...
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Hungary’s shameful behavior during the Belarus crisis
The Orbán government’s handling of the Belarus crisis is a classic example of diplomatic cowardice. Hungary was hoping for a quick end to the disturbances in Belarus, one way or the other, and...
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Háry János’s misadventures with COVID-19
People who called in to Klub Rádió this morning were astonished by the latest statistics on the high rate of mortality among COVID-19 patients in Hungary, especially when they heard that the number of...
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An ill-fated encounter between the Russian and EU foreign ministers
After spending a considerable amount of time on domestic and historical topics, it’s time to take a quick look at the foreign policy scene, which has been altered, even if indirectly, by the change of...
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Diplomatic turmoil in Central Europe
I certainly wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of the newly appointed Czech foreign minister Jakub Kulhánek, a 36-year-old social democratic politician who earlier held several high-level posts in the...
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Russian “snap inspection” of Crimea and the Ukrainian-Russian border is...
The welcome news of the day is that, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s earlier saber-rattling remarks, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that, starting tomorrow, Russia will begin to...
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Hungarians on the European Union, the Orbán government, and Russia
The European Commission just published the Winter 2020/2021 Standard Eurobarometer 94, measuring public opinion in the European Union. The study was conducted by Kantar, a large data, insights, and...
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Viktor Orbán’s infatuation with his EU veto power
Countries taking advantage of their veto power in the European Union is a well-entrenched practice. It was only a few days ago that we talked about Greek and Bulgarian vetoes against accession talks...
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The Orbán media is stunned—Putin says Biden is “totally on the ball”
Back in Moscow after his one-on-one meeting with Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin had a chat with graduates of the College of Public Administration, during which he announced that “the image of President...
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