Letters to Hungary
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.
2016. február 4.
Manapság bárkit felkeltenek álmából és megkérdezik miért kellennek nekünk a családok, mi a funkciója a családnak gondolkozás nélkül feleli azért, mert az ország demográfiai helyzete rettenetes és szükség van arra, hogy több gyerek szülessen különben nem tartható fenn a nyugdíjkassza, nem lesz aki dolgozzon, adót fizessen.
2016. február 2.
Megszavazni a kilépést a könnyű része a dolognak – állítja a The Financial Times 2016. január 13-án a londoni kiadás “Comment” oldalán megjelentetett írásában Jean-Claude Piris “BREXIT is the easy bit” című cikkében.
2015. december 15.
A The Financial Times 2007-es évjáratának két cikke került minap a kezembe. Már akkor félretettem őket, mert figyelemre méltónak találtam azokat. Mai szemmel pedig kifejezetten érdekesek, hiszen megmutatják, hogy napjaink problémái már évekkel ezelőtt itt álltak velünk szemben, csak az éppen begyűrűző, majd elhatalmasodó gazdasági válság miatt nem fordítottunk rájuk nagyobb figyelmet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 May 2015
In the coming days, the European Commission is preparing to table a proposal that will see a shake-up of the Union’s immigration rules and lead to a requirement that refugees reaching Europe should be spread more equally amongst Member States and not – as the current rules state – in the country in which they first arrive in the Union.