Hungary will not support the EU’s new Erasmus strategy until Hungarian students and researchers regain access to Erasmus and Horizon programmes, Minister Balázs Hankó said, calling their exclusion unlawful and politically motivated.

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.

‘The White Terror was largely a series of events in the countryside, and although atrocities and murders did occur in Budapest as well, these were not characteristic of the 1st District. Nevertheless, at least one murder is known to have taken place in the 1st District, specifically in the Nándor Barracks on Kapisztrán Square…’

Prime Minister Orbán of Hungary has recently put out an unusual tourism ad, urging people to visit Hungary this holiday season, as there are no illegal migrants here. This prompted a response not just from many X users praising it, but the British newspaper The Telegraph and a long-time critic of Orbán, German MEP Daniel Freund as well.

‘The damage is done. Most viewers will swallow the caricature without a second thought, file ‘Hungary = corrupt chaos’ into their mental map of Europe, and never realize they’ve been fed quiet propaganda dressed as entertainment. Beautiful Budapest didn’t deserve the smear. And the audience didn’t deserve the lie.’

Progressives are in full meltdown over A Super Progressive Movie, a January 2026 satire produced by Australian senator Pauline Hanson. The film mocks woke ideology through the story of four Melbourne activists thrown into an Australia where Hanson is prime minister—a premise that has already triggered outrage.