Tag: Hungary

NOVANEWS Hungary is defying the immigration policy Merkel imposed on the EU but it was hated in Brussels long before that -- just because its constitution references Hungary’s national and Christian traditions FRANK FUREDI  MORE: POLITICS EU CONSERVATIVE UPRISING According to the political establishment that runs the EU, Hungary has become a xenophobic, authoritarian society. The Hungarian government and in particular the prime minister, Viktor Orban, are continually denounced for their alleged violations of EU values. The mainstream Western media have picked up the message that it is okay to hate Hungary. They give the impression that Hungary is a totalitarian and viciously anti-Semitic society in which critics of the regime are silenced and the government dominates the media. ...

NOVANEWS By István Lovas  Do you wonder what you are going to read in the mainstream press on Hungary tomorrow? I will tell you. The same as yesterday, and the same as in the past almost seven years since Hungary’s right-of-center Fidesz government, led by the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was elected. You will learn that Mr. Orbán is a populist, an autocratic ruler, a menace to Europe, and a politician not hesitating to use anti-Semitic language in order to win over voters of the far-right Jobbik, and cover up uncomfortable truths about whatever is on the agenda in Hungary on that day. He, of course, has muzzled the media, made the court system a handmaiden of the ruling elite, abolished checks and balances, while he is suffocating the voice of dissenters, creates inordinate fear, cha...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini 16 Member States Will Establish the EPPO At 60 EU Enters a New Phase in Life EU of Those Running Fast, or of Those Arriving Together? Should you wish to build an illiberal regime within the EU without fear of the almighty Article 2 of the Treaty of Lisbon, do like Orbán, not like Kaczyński – agree to all manner of dialogues and political debates, initiated by the Brussels clerks, nod in understanding, and then go back home and carry on with your authoritarian activities! This is the message coming from the long-awaited European Commission dealing with Hungary’s illiberal case. After long years of being tolerated under the wing of the largest political power in the EU – the European People’s Party – Viktor Orbán has finally overstepped the quite high threshold...