A poll commissioned by Hungary’s Action and Defense Foundation (Tett és Védelem Alapítvány – TEV), discovered that a third of all Hungarians and a staggering 41% of all Fidesz supporters hold anti-Semitic views. The poll was conducted by Medián, one of Hungary’s most prominent polling and research firms. The organization’s director, Endre Hann, presented the findings: 23% of adult Hungarians hold “strongly […]
Budapest submitted a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. As a candidate city, the Hungarian capital is competing against Paris, Rome and Los Angeles. The bid was submitted jointly by the General Assembly of Budapest and the Hungarian Olympic Committee; the candidacy is supported strongly by Hungary’s Fidesz government and by Parliament. This week, the organizers published an English-language […]
On Friday, an unusual video surfaced featuring Gáspár Orbán, the 24 year old son of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Gáspár had hoped to evade media attention, despite being a former professional soccer player and the prime minister’s son. In 2014, he sent a letter to the editor of the 444.hu website requesting that they never write articles about him, […]
János Lázár, the Minister overseeing the all-powerful Prime Minister’s Office, took a rare, public swipe at Prime Minister Viktor Orbán today, as he explained to journalists in Budapest how much he disagrees with the government’s decision to allow all shops and commercial establishments to once again open on Sundays. Mr. Lázár had previously been billed by some sources close to […]
Hungary’s parliament voted by a massive margin (163 yes votes, 11 abstentions and 2 opposed) to repeal a law enacted in March 2015, that shuttered the majority of retail stores and commercial establishments on Sundays. It took the governing Fidesz party less than 24 hours to announce its intention to repeal the highly unpopular piece of legislation, submit it to […]
It speaks volumes about what matters most to Hungarian citizens, when news of the Orbán government’s decision Monday morning to allow all stores and shopping malls to remain open on Sundays is considered to be groundbreaking, headline news–with flashing “breaking news” banners for added impact–on nearly all major Hungarian news sites. Last week, the courts gave the Hungarian Socialist Party […]
On Tuesday, HFP published a story on the president of the nascent Alliance of Conservative Students (Konzervatív Hallgatók Szövetsége – KHSZ), who happens to also be actively involved in the Nazi Pax Hungarica movement. This is an extremist group, previously called Blood and Honour, which bars all homosexuals, Jews, Roma and non-Caucasians from membership. As the controversy surrounding Balázs László’s […]
Balázs László is currently studying political science at Hungary’s Péter Pázmány Catholic University and he is also the president of the fledgling Alliance of Conservative Students (Konzervatív Hallgatók Szövetsége – KHSZ). The new organization and its leader have been given a surprising amount of national media attention in Hungary, despite having only organized two poorly attended lectures and having a […]
Béla Biszku, who died at age 94 last week, was Hungary’s most infamous unrepentant hard-line communist and the only official of the former pre-1989 regime ever prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Biszku served in the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) from 1949, as well as in its successor, the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt – MSZMP), including […]
More than 45,000 took to the streets on March 15th, 2016, as part of a massive demonstration led by teachers, parents and students, but drawing on all demographics of Hungarians who are livid with an intellectually and morally bankrupt, and rhetorically exhausted autocratic regime that has built its power on dividing society against itself and capitalizing on the increased vulnerability […]
