27 April 2020
Hungarians everywhere will no doubt be aware of the upcoming one hundredth anniversary of the Trianon Treaty, which was signed on 4 June 1920.
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CHANGE ONE WORD EVERYTHING ELSE DONE ALREADY
28 June 2017
In her recent webcast Dawn Hawkins of NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation) told her audience that big tech companies actually have a policy to prevent the publication of sexually explicit (pornographic) materials but they don’t really enforce it. Ms Hawkins also added that she knows Google put the technology together to enforce their policy. A recent article in The Financial Times echoes Ms Hawkins statement.
MAKING SENSE OF THE REFERENDUM
3 October 2016
What are we to make of the result of the recent referendum on Hungary? No matter whom you talk to, everyone seems to be claiming victory.
Before adjudicating on the competing claims, one must think clearly about what just happened.
HUNGARY’S REFERENDUM AND THE MOMENTUM OF DISSENT
25 September 2016
It’s fair to say that the outcome of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom came as a shock to the EU’s elite. There have been uncomfortable democratic results before for the Union – most notably in Ireland, France and the Netherlands – but Brexit is of a different magnitude.
ORBÁN, HUNGARY AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
23 March 2016
As the dust and debris settles after the latest terror outrage in Brussels, it is inevitable that a sustained period of soul-searching will break out in Europe. Why has it come to this? Why should Europe suffer such carnage? There is no doubt that these are dark days for Europe.
VIKTOR ORBAN’S HUNGARY: THE SCAPEGOAT THAT ROARED
29 October 2015
The European Union has failed to manage its migrant crisis. Mistakes have been made but others will be blamed, in particular Viktor Orbán and Hungary. Budapest has been a very useful scapegoat.
ORBÁN AND UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
4 September 2015
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, was back in Brussels yesterday defending his country’s approach to the migrant crisis, which has fragmented any concept of European solidarity. European officials delight in casting the pugnacious leader as either a pantomime villain or a fool – he of the ‘illiberal views’. Some feel ashamed of him.
EUROPE’S IMMIGRATION DILEMMA
11 August 2015
I was recently attracted to a reader’s letter in a leading Catholic newspaper, which sought to highlight some uncomfortable facts concerning the cultural background of many of the immigrants who are arriving on Europe’s shores.
THE MEANING OF EUROPE
9 August 2015
So once again, Hungary’s Prime Minister makes another pilgrimage to Transylvania and once again, another speech to rally the faithful and inflame his enemies.
Following on from last year’s ruminations on ‘illiberal democracy’, Victor Orbán’s latest speech addressed the ‘meaning of Europe’. Touching as it did the thorny problems of immigration, security and values, it was inevitable that it would be met by howls of orthodox apoplexy by the more liberal fraternities in Europe.
ORBAN VIEWS ON MIGRATION: NO PLACE TO HIDE
4 June 2015
Hungarian Prime Minister, Orbán Viktor, resumed his usual role as the ‘Bete Noir’ of the EU’s liberal elite. Once again, he appeared to have little or no sympathy with EU policy proposals – in this case, for the handling of the current refugee crisis impacting on the Union’s southern Members, particularly Italy and Greece.