Orbán threw in homophobia to distract from the Pegasus-scandal – and learned two things: 1) The Pegasus scandal really hurts him (according to him). 2) The man is improvising. It may not lead to his downfall in 2022. But it is not a sign of an upward trajectory for someone like him. Continue reading
Orbán keeps his words to Chinese communist autocrats, but to no one else. Maybe some lessons should be learned. Continue reading
10000 people protested against the planned Chinese communist mega-university in Budapest on Saturday. The government appears to have backpedalled on the project. For now. Continue reading
No, universities didn’t become private. They have just lost their autonomy to Orbán. Continue reading
R. Daniel Kelemen from Rutgers has given an interview to Népszava and in it he mentioned that the benefit of an EU-membership might be that Orbán will not resort to Lukashenko-like violence because an EU member state can not sink as deeply into autocracy as a non-member could. Continue reading
Old farts vs new tricks Continue reading
Orbán returned from his war against Brussels and spending got completely out of hand Continue reading
Now that Orbán’s myth of invincibility is broken, people are suddenly starting to see his shortcomings as a politician. Continue reading
“I feel like I win when I lose” Continue reading
70 days of #FreeSZFE and counting Continue reading
