In February, Adrien Brody took home the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of a Hungarian architect, László Tóth, rebuilding his life in the United States after the Holocaust. However, audiences left cinemas yearning to know more about this…
‘The claim is as follows: conservatives are indeed stupid and lack intellectual curiosity, and the progressives, be they liberals or socialists…have the intellectual firepower on their side.’…
Director General of the Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó warned that Hungary’s Tisza Party is preparing austerity measures ‘Generation Z has only read about in history books,’ including tax hikes and privatization plans. He also argued that Europe is…
The old year has just passed, so, in an effort to reflect on all that happened in the eventful year of 2025, here are the stories that you, our readers, have found the most compelling based on the amount of…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has been included in POLITICO 28 again this year, the annual list of the most influential European figures by the political site. PM Orbán is ranked at #12, although his write-up is the most…
For years, Brussels’s progressive mainstream has painted Viktor Orbán as the EU’s so-called ‘Russian asset’. But now Belgium’s own prime minister, Bart de Wever, is being given the same label—simply for rejecting a reckless plan to use frozen Russian assets…
‘Modern conservatism will never produce another Buckley. The current climate is too hostile to showy intellectualism and the media too fractured for any one man…to dominate the conversation.’…
A new EUobserver article portrays Fidesz, AfD, and RN as central players in what it calls a growing ‘pro-Kremlin bloc’ in the EP. Using votes on 14 Russia–Ukraine resolutions, the Brussels-leaning publication argues their influence has expanded significantly since 2019….
Hungarians would not normally follow a French political debate, but the recent exchange between Éric Zemmour and Raphaël Glucksmann went far beyond routine campaign rhetoric. Glucksmann levelled extreme and factually baseless accusations against Hungary, prompting the need for clarification….
