Merkel beaten by AfD in local election
Leading dailies disagree on whether the rise of the anti-immigration AfD in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election has proven Chancellor Merkel’s immigration policies wrong. Chancellor Merkel is an...
View ArticlePros and cons two days before the referendum
Commentators don’t even agree on whether the question to be put to the population at Sunday’s quota referendum makes sense or not, or what it is actually about. On 444, Péter Magyari describes as...
View ArticleConstitutional amendment stuck
Commentators are divided over whether or not the failure of a constitutional amendment proposed by the government, which would have barred the settlement of groups of non-EU citizens outside the normal...
View ArticleJobbik to table constitutional amendment
A pro-government pundit dismisses as a stunt Jobbik’s plan to submit the somewhat revised constitutional amendments it rejected last week in Parliament. A liberal columnist thinks Jobbik’s move will...
View ArticleRight-wing takes on the London attacks
Two pro-government columnists link terrorist attacks to immigration and multiculturalist ideology. Eastern Europe does not want to import terrorism, Zoltán Kottász writes in Magyar Idők. The...
View ArticleNational consultation on the ’Soros plan’
Pundits express sharply contrasting views on the government’s ‘national consultation’ on migration. One side sees it as a propaganda project based on lies, while the other considers the campaign an...
View ArticleRight-wing interpretations of the divisions within the EU
One pro-government analyst criticises the European Commission and leading European officials for trying to impose majority opinions on Hungary and its partners, while another believes a war is underway...
View ArticleFukuyama in agreement with PM Orbán
A pro-government political analyst welcomes Francis Fukuyama’s recent statement, in which the American liberal political thinker called for an end to uncontrolled migration and the protection the EU’s...
View ArticleThe ’Stop Soros’ bill in Parliament
As the government tables its bill against organisations whose activists stand accused of promoting illegal immigration, commentators suggest that the harshest previsions aired earlier this year are...
View ArticleThe ‘Stop Soros’ bill as an episode in a clash with liberal elites
As Parliament begins to discuss the bill on stricter rules aimed at preventing illegal immigration, commentators place the planned legislation in the context of the government’s feud with the...
View ArticleThe V4-+ Austria summit in Budapest
A left-wing analyst thinks PM Orbán has made significant headway in his efforts to counter the mainstream EU leaders in their policies on migration. The leaders of the Visegrád-4 countries met...
View ArticleThe football World Cup as an immigration test
Commentators on both sides of the political divide excoriate their rivals for using the most popular sporting event of the year to underpin their own stance on migration. On hvg online, András Hont...
View ArticleMacron accepts Orbán’s challenge
As President Emmanuel Macron of France accepts Mr Orbán’s identification of him as his main adversary in Europe, a pro-government analyst explains that the two leaders are in fact the leading...
View ArticleConflicting interpretations of the Chemnitz riots
A pro-government columnist sees the clashes in eastern Germany as proof of the failure of the open doors immigration policy followed by the German government, while his left-wing colleague thinks Mrs...
View ArticleHungary shuts the border
A pro-government columnist welcomes the government’s decision to shut down Hungary’s borders. His left-wing counterpart suggests that border closure is just another propaganda stunt and the government...
View ArticleMigration as a threat to social stability
A pro-government commentator and another at Hungary’s top left-wing daily both suggest that ‘uncontrolled mass migration’ undermines social peace. In Népszava, Géza Simon likens migration to...
View ArticleControversy over PM Orbán’s Băile Tușnad address
A pro-government commentator praises the Prime Minister for his endeavour to preserve Hungary as a distinct nation among others, while a left-wing pundit describes Mr Orbán’s speech as inconsistent....
View ArticleJewish community reacts to Prime Minister’s remarks on ‘mixed race’
Prime Minister Orbán’s comments on race in his speech on Saturday were made in the context of his opposition to mass immigration from outside Europe. Nevertheless, Jewish leaders and authors in Hungary...
View ArticleWeeklies on French riots and the resignation of the Justice Minister
A liberal analyst attributes the week-long rioting throughout France to institutional racism, while a right-wing commentator asks how masses of second and third-generation immigrants can be fully...
View ArticleFormer Austrian chancellor praises Hungary
A pro-government columnist welcomes the recollections of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria about 2015, when he and his Hungarian partners opposed mass irregular migration. Addressing the...
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