Kester Eddy
"The Hungarian people must recognize what has been lost in placing these bets to begin with."
Remarks of Ambassador David Pressman on the 2024 U.S. General Election, November 6, 2024 US Ambassador David Pressman addressing the...
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Kester Eddy
Budapest - The Cost of Hosting a Guest: it can be traumatic
An Anglo-Hungarian friend of mine, let's call him Jancsi, recently sent me this email about his experience of having his Brit friend come...
Kester Eddy
Zsuzsanna Szelényi: "The regime change was too easy in Hungary."
In Their Own Words: Zsuzsanna Szelényi on Fidesz in the party's early years, the rise of Viktor Orbán and why Hungarian society has found...
Kester Eddy
Hungary: Peace - In our Time?
Seven Voices from the Hustings Photo: A campaign poster with the Hungarian word Béke (= Peace) and the image of Prime Minister Viktor...
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Péter Róna: "The root issue in Hungary is the lack of a proper constitution ... The fundamental legal and political structure simply doesn't fit into the EU."
“There is no constitution that I know of, certainly not among the 27 in Europe – except Hungary – which in heac verba explicitly provides...
Kester Eddy
Péter Magyar's start-up party likely to prove more dangerous to opposition than Fidesz, despite his Fidesz roots
Think tank leader András Bíró-Nagy assesses the impact of Péter Magyar, disenchanted former Fidesz insider and now new kid on the...
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"Ukraine has sacrificed far more for Western values than any other country since the Second World War"
Jan Lipavský, Czech Foreign Minister, reflects on the 25th anniversary of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joining the NATO...
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Hungarian Politics in 2023 – Fidesz support is barely dented, despite a collection of crises that would bring down governments in 'normal' European countries
Hungary in 2023 was still recovering from the Corona virus (second worst record in Europe*), boasted the worst inflation on the continent...
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Hungary's Defence of Sovereignty act is catch-all, “wilfully and intentionally left very vague” - Márta Pardavi
In Their Own Words: Márta Pardavi, co-president of the Helsinki Committee, speaks on the latest controversial legislation passed by the...
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"The risks to Hungarian sovereignty come from ... China & Russia" - Bulcsú Hunyadi
In Their Own Words - Bulcsú Hunyadi, Senior Analyst with Political Capital, a think tank. Bulcsú Hunyadi, speaking at a conference -...
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Péter Molnar, founding Fidesz member, on the great rift between Lajos Simicska and Viktor Orbán
And why Fidesz is not a conservative party - In their own words Péter Molnar, taken from a YouTube video on his 'hate speech' project at...
Kester Eddy
I told [Prime Minister] Németh, ... Miklós, What are you waiting for? Let's go for an election!
The Quiet Diplomat: In his own words, Tádé Alföldy speaks about 1989, the key players and the tensions raised as Hungary shuffled...
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Life in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine - Summer without Kherson water melons
Eighteen months after the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin's 'Special Operation', in this guest post, Briton Alan Sutton...
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Mark Twain, The Decline of the West & You've Never Had it So Good - Guest Post
The Rev Dr Frank Hegedűs is an intriguing fellow. An American with Hungarian ancestry, he is head priest honcho of St Margaret’s Anglican...
Kester Eddy
US Ambassador David Pressman: "Bluster is not a policy. But appeasement is."
David Pressman, US Ambassador to Hungary, addressing guests at the Independence Day reception in Budapest on June 30th, quoted Hungary’s...
Kester Eddy
The Bridge to Russia has Collapsed
Yorkshire-born Helen Womack spent three decades in Russia working as a reporter for English-language publications. In this guest post,...
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