The 2022 tax bill has been rubberstamped and includes a line that allows corporations to donate into Orbán’s loyalist foundations – and get a 300% state tax credit for it. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Real existing Orbánism
What do you get for calling the EU “Soros’ gas chamber”? 80 million euros, castles, night clubs and to be your country’s culture tsar
In December 2020 the political appointee at the helm of Petőfi Literary Museum published a combative editorial calling George Soros the “liberal Führer” whose “liber-aryan followers worship him more subserviently than Hitler’s did Hitler”. He called Europe “George Soros’ gas chamber”. Continue reading
Orbán is not a Thatcherite – He’s a rabid anti-capitalist
Useful idiots happily spread the fake news abroad that Orbán is completely misunderstood, he is just a conservative/Christianist/capitalist/patriot. But it is simply not true. Continue reading
Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway
A punk band’s concert video was censored to remove all Orbán-critical content and a band member was allegedly beaten by unknown henchmen outside his home, days after the concert. Continue reading
Government listing journalists’ foreign travel because “it’s usually Soros”
So they believe their own propaganda and paranoia is now proudly admitted official policy Continue reading
A year after the academy of science was Orbanized, the minister distributes research grants
In June 2019, after some the usual mini-resistance, uproar, a little protesting and the obligatory voices of international disapproval, the academy of science (MTA) has been Orbanized. One year later, the minister personally rewrites the list of research grant recipients – to no one’s surprise. Continue reading
Klubrádió going down
Another victim to Orbanization Continue reading
Would you give your job (or your life) to bring just one corrupt strongman to justice? Because that is the price
Two prosecutors were fired trying to stop the case against a corrupt Orbánist MP. He is now even bragging about it Continue reading
The fight against fake news turned into a fight for real one
It’s not like having to triangulate between Fox and CNN. It is full-on, top-down propaganda and no one left to deliver news Continue reading
Even his voters don’t believe that Orbán could be removed by elections, finds last pre-corona poll
Policy Solutions (with support from the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) and Závecz Research conducted a poll on the tenth anniversary of Orbán’s rule. The poll took place between 3.10 March, before the corona crisis. Continue reading
