• Orbán out on a limb – a hard slap in the face from the banks
    Hungary|26/08/2010

    Orbán out on a limb – a hard slap in the face from the banks

    The new Hungarian government can hardly complain that it is not being given enough attention by the foreign press: Viktor Orbán is soon to be hailed as a political superstar in the Anglo-Saxon papers.

  • Taming the lion
    Hungary|26/08/2010

    Taming the lion

    Being in parliament has clearly domesticated the formally militant Jobbik. The government regularly puts their ideas into effect and the Hungarian Guard, the organisation the party’s popularity is founded on, is losing ground.

  • Hungary|27/07/2010

    Transit

    Just imagine a world in which the Gypsies are the wealthier and they employ the gadjos [guy in the Romany language – trans.] There is actually no need to imagine such a place, as it exists – near Mezőtúr.

  • Hungary|27/07/2010

    The water lobby rules

    Although the wastewater treatment plant, to be handed over in Csepel in August, could have been Gábor Demszky’s “memorial” project, it will instead be a symbol of French victory.

  • Hungary|13/07/2010

    Equal standards

    “Our defense is in our deeds. Posterity will judge us,” László Sólyom quoted Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai. The head of state has known for months that he will not be nominated again but nevertheless feels that he has successfully completed his work.

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