Though Turkish PM Erdogan is in town holding talks, it seems we have much more important things to worry about than mere smiles and handshakes. In a deeply disturbing probe of our Great Imperial Leader’s psyche, Blikk has just reported that the Hungarian PM is showing signs of excessive stress!…
What’s going on, you might ask. Well, we’ll never really know as WSJ has become a subscription based site, but based on Hungarian media renditions of the interview it seems MSzP President Attila Mesterhazy intends to become Attila the Hun in an effort to unite Hungary’s opposition parties for the…
Hungary is becoming poorer, causing a major economic exodus and brain-drain of its youth, according to a press release issued by Ildiko Borbely-Bango, member of the chair committee of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP), the successors of the former communists - Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party (MSzMP). However she didn’t express…
Romania’s Social-liberal party (USL) Prime Minister Victor Ponta has appointed a Hungarian opposition party member as his personal advisor, the Romanian Government confirmed Saturday. He is 61-year-old minority Hungarian politician-lawyer Gyorgy Frunda – a key member of the Romania Hungarian Democratic Union party RMDSz or UDMR. Frunda is to advise…
Ron Werber, the Archduke of negative campaigning has returned to the socialist party, and according to right-leaning media tried to enter party HQ unnoticed, for fear of journalists. His alleged efforts are completely justified: he was single handedly responsible for devising the hate campaign against handing out Hungarian identity cards…
After this we thought he wasn’t really cool but now we have seen the light, ESPECIALLY after watching his Facebook video message. AND he met with some upper-class yuppie students in a trendy downtown bar in Budapest, which has eased any kind of doubts we had about higher education reform.…
Experts predict civil insurgance in Hungary, according to media reports, after even the remnants of the middle class are sliding into poverty. As much as 31 percent of Hungarian society was considered poor in 2011, Eurostat reported, making it the 5th poorest country in the EU. The number of Hungarians…
Just when you thought the overlords of Hungary are lacking basic common sense and have yet to come up with one single effective reform, analysts’ minds were torpedoed today with the announcement of what the Hungarian press calls drastic tuition fee hikes for higher ed students entering the system in…
Every party has its own think tank churning out polls glorifying its big brother – according analysts who definitely have no voice at all in Hungarian media. Allegedly Szazadveg might be one such an organization and has managed to come out with yet another poll declaring the victory of Fidesz…
The news broke on Sunday in Budapest: Hungarian politicians are getting fatter at a much faster rate than IMF and European Union quotas allow (just kidding). It’s true though (the fat part) and was reported by tabloid Blikk, who also slammed Tamas Deutch’s (an MP) new look, which includes a…
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