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Jan-Werner Mueller: An Interview with Kriszta Bombera
Jan-Werner Mueller is a professor of political science at Princeton University and the author of several books. He began his university studies at the Free University, Berlin, followed by University...
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Another Russian-Hungarian deal, good only for the Russians
In the past few years passengers have been evacuated from one metro car after the next on the M3 line in Budapest because the cars started to smoke. These Soviet-made cars have been in service since...
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The European Commission is cracking down on Hungarian infringements
Many critics of the Orbán government complain bitterly that the European Union is utterly helpless and perhaps even uncaring when it comes to Viktor Orbán’s leading the country toward a practically...
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Hungarian politicians on the European Union
We must abandon the refugees who are waiting in vain to board a train to Vienna and beyond because at the moment no one knows what the Hungarian government’s plans are regarding their fate. By the time...
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Viktor Orbán went but didn’t conquer: His trip to Brussels
Yesterday I expressed my belief that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would arrive in Brussels with a proposal seeking the European Union’s blessing of his hermetically sealed Hungarian borders, in...
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Hungary was not an observer at the mini-summit. Orbán signed on the dotted line
Well, the emergency mini-summit is over. It was convened to take the first practical steps toward regulating and slowing the migrant flow from Turkey to Greece and from there to Germany and beyond....
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Silence in Hungary since the mini-summit
The silence in the Hungarian media about the Leaders’ Meeting in Brussels has been deafening. After searching for well over an hour, I managed to find two op/eds and a couple of interviews with former...
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Commissioner Tibor Navracsics on the Orbán government and the European Union
After spending some time on foreign policy issues, I will return to domestic affairs by analyzing two Tibor Navracsics interviews given a day apart, to mandiner.hu and Magyar Nemzet. As you most likely...
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The Russian-Hungarian deal on the Paks Nuclear Power PlanT is in trouble
Yesterday came the news from Bruxinfo, a Hungarian-language internet site specializing in news about the European Union, that the European Commission will require the Hungarian government to suspend...
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Infringement procedure against Hungary on account of the Paks nuclear power...
Well, it’s official. The European Commission called on the Hungarian government to suspend all further projects in connection with the construction of the Paks II nuclear power plant because Budapest...
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Is Paks II dead?
On December 27 I read a brief announcement in Magyar Nemzet, which didn’t seem to rouse much interest in the Hungarian media. In the December 23 issue of Magyar Közlöny, the government’s official...
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Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Jarosław Kaczyński
Yesterday afternoon vs.hu learned from several sources that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Poland at the invitation of PiS, the country’s governing party. In terms of protocol it will be a...
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Poland at a crossroads?
After spending three days on domestic affairs, today I will concentrate on the Polish-Hungarian-European Union triangle, with a quick look at Putin’s Russia. There is no question that Jarosław...
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Tibor Navracsics’s political “coming out”
Tibor Navracsics, who is EU commissioner in charge of education, culture, youth and sport, doesn’t appear too often in the Hungarian media, and when he does he is asked mostly about matters relating to...
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ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS AFTER BREXIT MUST BE THE REFORM OF THE EU BUDGET
As always, Hungarian Spectrum welcomes democratic voices from and about Hungary. Today András Lukács, President of the Hungarian NGO Clean Air Action Group (Levegő Munkacsoport) and Board Member of...
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Viktor Orbán’s first day in Brussels without his British prop
Today, after a meeting of the European Council sans David Cameron, several European leaders gave press conferences, starting with President Jean-Claude Juncker. From his brief summary of the meeting,...
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Furious denial of any wrongdoing and rejection of a European solution to the...
I would like to continue with yesterday’s theme for at least two reasons. One is that the report of Human Rights Watch on the brutal treatment of refugees along the Serb-Hungarian border has been...
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Another EU project: Renovation of fortified castles and luxury mansions
It was about a year ago that I first encountered two new programs launched by the Orbán government: the “National Castle Program” and the “National Mansion Program.” The castles we are talking about...
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The leaders of Visegrád 4 meet with Angela Merkel
The European Union has gone through some rough times in the last year and a half. The Brexit decision certainly shook an EU already battered by the influx of almost two million refugees and immigrants....
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Brussels after the Hungarian referendum
Although the Hungarian media is full of the story that Antal Rogán lied about his extravagant helicopter ride to a wedding, I would rather talk about the Hungarian referendum’s reception in Brussels....
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