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János Lázár: “We want to remain Hungarians!”
With the permission of The Budapest Beacon I’m republishing their English translation of an important interview with János Lázár, the “COO (chief operating officer)” of Hungary, that originally...
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Viktor Orbán: “No significant minority among ourselves”
A day before yesterday I wrote about the Hungarian reaction to the terrorist attacks in Paris. Or, to be more precise, about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s long-held views on immigration and...
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Mária Schmidt is on the warpath again
Last summer I wrote at least five posts about Mária Schmidt, a historian of the Holocaust and director of the controversial House of Terror museum established during the first Orbán administration...
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Viktor Orbán goes to Kiev, M. André Goodfriend returns to Washington
Viktor Orbán has been a very busy man lately, especially when it comes to playing on the international stage. Angela Merkel visited Budapest last week; this week Orbán had talks with the prime minister...
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American rapprochement with Viktor Orbán’s Hungary?
While readers of Hungarian Spectrum continue to discuss the possible reasons for André Goodfriend’s departure, let me share one right-wing Hungarian reaction to the exit of the former chargé, István...
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U.S.-Hungarian rapprochement? I doubt it
Ever since the arrival of Colleen Bell, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary, and the departure of M. André Goodfriend from Budapest, hopes have been high in government circles that U.S.-Hungarian...
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The chief of the Hungarian tax office resigns
Today’s been a busy day in Hungarian politics. In the last week or so it was hard to find timely topics, perhaps because Viktor Orbán was on a secret vacation on Croatia’s Mljet Island. He went to the...
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What can we learn about U.S.-Hungarian relations from János Lázár?
A huge sigh of relief. Viktor Orbán’s speech in Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tușnad is not worth reporting on. Normally he tests out his latest vision for Hungary on this occasion, but this time there was nothing...
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Fidesz charge: The U.S. wants to topple the Hungarian government
Napi Gazdaság, which will soon appear under a new name, Magyar Idők (Hungarian Times), continues where the Magyar Nemzet of old left off before the outbreak of the Orbán-Simicska war. In fact, Napi...
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A one-year-old American non-paper surfaces
For almost eight months there was hardly any news about U.S.-Hungarian relations in the Hungarian media, with the exception of stories about NATO troop deployment in Eastern Europe and a U.S.-Hungarian...
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