The EU Commission is considering sanctioning Turkey over its unwillingness to cut economic and political ties with Russia. But Ankara has one card up its sleeve that Brussels either forgets or simply ignores: the ability to open the migration floodgates to Europe.
FIFA’s decision to suspend Folarin Balogun’s automatic ban for his red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina after Donald Trump’s appeal has sparked protests from UEFA, Belgium, and the European Commission. Yet many point to Lionel Messi’s similar, unpunished challenge as evidence of football’s inconsistent disciplinary standards.
A new analysis by MCC Brussels highlights anomalies in Facebook performance between Péter Magyar and Viktor Orbán. Identical reach produced sharply different engagement, alongside comment visibility issues and regulatory pressures, raising concerns over transparency and platform fairness.
Nuclear energy took centre stage at a Danube Institute event in Budapest, where experts such as Chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission David A Wright and State Secretary for Circular Economy and Climate Policy at Hungary’s Ministry of Energy Csaba Gondola spoke of a ‘nuclear renaissance’ driven by energy security concerns. Speakers highlighted SMRs, though deployment is unlikely before 2030.
According to a new national poll by the polling firm Századvég, the Orbán government’s recently introduced fuel price caps are widely popular, with 67 per cent of Hungarian adults supporting them. The price of a litre of gasoline is capped at 595 HUF ($1.73), while the price of a litre of diesel is capped at 615 HUF ($1.79).
‘In the case of Ukraine and Spain, it also produces circumstantial parallels that obscure the unbridgeable gap between the very natures of the two conflicts, conflating the ideological antagonisms of the 1930s at their most nationally internecine with a globalized, technological war for territory. Far from far-sighted, the mantra that Europe should re-learn forgotten lessons or resign itself to perish here becomes dangerously myopic.’
In a recently published analysis, POLITICO Brussels calls Hungary’s 2026 election the EU’s ‘most important’, while admitting that Brussels is invested in Viktor Orbán’s defeat. The piece frames Péter Magyar as a credible challenger and highlights how the EPP and Renew have embraced Tisza to ‘secure influence over Budapest’—as EU pressure on Hungary continues to mount.
‘The leaders of the most successful small or medium-sized countries tend to be acutely aware of the dexterity required to maintain security…it seems very unlikely that they and others like them will get lost in their own imagination or succumb to the self-fulfilling fatalism of the postmodernist cosmopolitan mind that gave birth to the “end of history”, the “rules-based liberal international order”, and all the rest of that dangerous nonsense.’
‘One major reason this story is suspect is because of how pointless such a spy ring would be. Getting gossip, including incredibly sensitive info on the internal workings of the Commission and other bodies, is extremely easy. Each week, my messaging apps are drowning in document leaks and the latest stories of who is sleeping with whom and which EP aide is buying drugs off the guy in Strasbourg.’
‘Sooner or later…Orbán will no longer be the Hungarian chieftain…It occurred to me that if the Hungarian people choose to forsake the faith embraced by King Saint Stephen…and instead permit themselves to be dissolved into the post-Christian cultural mongrelization represented by the godless, nationless EU, the tragedy will not be Viktor Orbán’s, but their own.’
At a time when public debate is increasingly polarized and superficial, Hungarian Conservative remains committed to depth and independent thought.
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