Letters to Hungary
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.
11 August 2014
Viktor Orbán’s recent speech to ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania on 26 July 2014, in which he mentioned Hungary’s movement towards the creation of a ‘workfare’ state – not per se built on current western liberal models – but rather a pragmatic response to social and economic developments, has been met by a somewhat hysterical and ill-informed reaction by Hungary’s liberals and their foreign supporters.
3 April 2014
According to the latest opinion polls, Viktor Orbán and Fidesz will comfortably win another term in office. Of course such forecasts have been wrong in the past, although this time even the political opposition in Hungary have already conceded defeat.
How should we account for this success, should it materialise, on 6 April?
10 January 2014
For the past four years, the Hungarian Left-Liberal opposition have told us that they are going to win the next election. This boast is now no more than a hollow and bad taste joke.