Hungary
-
7 February 20127SME Bratislava
-
2 February 2012PresseuropNépszava
-
26 January 2012Cicero Berlin
-
Central Europe
Vienna-Budapest, a journey into the past
23 January 201216Le Monde Paris -
Hungary
Orbán revolution goes bust
20 January 20129Respekt Prague -
Hungary-EU
Viktor Orbán dodges MEPs questions
19 January 2012PresseuropNépszava -
18 January 2012Sega Sofia
-
Hungary-EU
Brussels starts power struggle with Orbán
18 January 20128PresseuropNépszabadság, Magyar Nemzet, Népszava -
12 January 201217Népszabadság Budapest
-
9 January 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
-
9 January 2012PresseuropMagyar Hírlap
-
Hungary
Orbán increasingly isolated
6 January 20129Presseurop -
Editorial
Orbán and our values
6 January 20124Presseurop -
5 January 201231La Stampa Turin
-
European Union
Hungary is our business too
4 January 201239Le Monde Paris -
Hungary
Let us deal with Orbán
3 January 20129Heti Világgazdaság Budapest -
2 January 2012Le Monde Paris
-
22 December 2011Magyar Narancs Budapest
-
Hungary
Tug of war over media law
21 December 20111PresseuropPresseurop -
Hungary
IMF and EU slam door on Hungary
19 December 2011PresseuropNépszabadság -
European Council
Hungary’s diplomatic zigzags
12 December 20111PresseuropNépszabadság -
Central Europe
Hungary’s bitter reunion with the IMF
25 November 201127Magyar Nemzet Budapest -
Hungary
IMF or Orbán: what will it be?
17 November 20111PresseuropHírszerzö -
10 November 201115Respekt Prague
-
Eurozone crisis
They forget about growth
28 October 20114Les Echos Paris -
24 October 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
-
Austria | Czech Republic
Banks battening down the hatches
11 October 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
3 October 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
-
Austria-Hungary
Budapest accused of fleecing Austrian banks
13 September 20111PresseuropDer Standard -
9 August 20111PresseuropAdevărul
-
5 August 20113PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta
-
Hungary
The Beijing model
4 August 20116Die Zeit Hamburg -
2 August 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
-
14 July 2011Népszabadság Budapest
-
European Union
Hungarian Constitution under scrutiny
9 June 2011PresseuropNépszabadság -
Debate
Royalty will save democracy
6 May 20111Le Temps Geneva -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Debate
Unworthy of ourselves
22 April 20116De Morgen Brussels -
21 April 20115Die Welt Berlin
-
19 April 20114Népszabadság Budapest
-
19 April 2011PresseuropPresseurop
-
18 April 2011PresseuropHeti Világgazdaság
-
6 April 20114Le Monde Paris
-
Central Europe
The wilted charms of the euro
4 April 2011Presseurop -
1 April 20111Týždeň Bratislava
-
Europact
What’s in it for Eastern Europe?
28 March 2011Adevărul Bucharest -
16 March 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
-
8 March 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
-
Slovakia-Hungary
Proposal for dual nationality
18 February 2011PresseuropSME -
17 February 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show. 
Heirs to the Hapsburg Empire, Austria and Hungary have something else in common: an ambiguous relationship with history and a tendency to tolerate political excesses. Ten years after European sanctions against Vienna, why does the Budapest seem to be stuck in the 1930s? 
Leading a country heavily in debt, under pressure from the IMF and threatened with prosecution by the EU, the Hungarian Prime Minister is now facing an organised opposition. Feeling poorer every day, Hungarians have lost their faith in the PM's nationalist prescriptions. 
After quibbling for several weeks, the European Commission launched three legal actions against the Hungarian government. But who will back down first – Budapest or Brussels? The Hungarian press is not expecting any great changes. 
By threatening Budapest with financial sanctions and infringement proceedings if the Hungarian government fails to change its policies on the economy and the judiciary, the EU seems to have begun a process that would allow it to get rid of Hungary’s Prime Minister, as it got rid of Berlusconi and Papandreou. But it won’t be that easy. 
The reinforcement of the executive branch of government and the weakening of checks and balances has been criticised by newspapers in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe at a moment when the country has been struck by a financial crisis that is steadily worsening as investors lose confidence in Budapest. 
To understand the current Hungarian government’s withdrawal into nationalism and identity, one must look back into the history of the country, argues an expert in Hungarian literature: particularly into the fragility of its bourgeoisie and the frustrations born of military defeats. 
The EU should not remain indifferent to PM Viktor Orbán’s drift towards authoritarian nationalism. As a community based on democratic as well as economic values, it ought to exert pressure on Budapest to keep the Hungarian government on the right path, argues Le Monde. 
Protests against the Hungarian prime minister, accused of a drift towards authoritarianism, are growing in Budapest. But while the international community is also starting to respond, the protests must avoid relying on foreign intervention, argues philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás. 
The suspension of negotiations with the IMF and the EU over the issue of the independence of the central bank has demonstrated that Viktor Orbán’s government also intends to apply its “national revolution” to the economy. However, economist Miklós Sebők argues that the basis for this policy is erroneous. 
Financially weakened, Budapest has requested assistance from the International Monetary Fund, as part of a deal to be negotiated between now and January 2012. The Hungarian press wonders if the move amounts to an admission of failure on the part of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, or if it has resulted from a cabal against his independence policy? 
As the eurozone crisis deepens, the countries outside of it are trying to come up with ways not to lose control of their destinies inside the EU. 
The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries. 
Victor Orban's controversial media law entered fully into force in July. After one month, the upshot is: mass layoffs of critical journalists and the allegation that the head of government is forcing the public media to toe his own line, making his regime ever more authoritarian. 
In the wake of the British royal wedding, perhaps the most successful PR achieved by a monarchy in two decades, essayist Ian Buruma argues that monarchies keep countries together, put a lid on ethnic conflicts and dampen down populism. 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
What is the source of the obnoxious atmosphere sweeping across Europe? At a time when populations are more and more inward looking and political leaders irresponsible, Europe is increasingly a cause for scandal. A Belgian columnist sets the record straight. 
The Hungarian government and the Finnish electorate have demonstrated a desire to break with the European consensus. One of the reasons for this crisis could well be that member states are constantly told that there is absolutely no alternative to the European project. 
The new Hungarian constitution approved by parliament on 18 April amounts to a milestone in the "national revolution" undertaken by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. However, the daily Népszabadság argues that it recycles 19th century ideas which are a danger to the country.
At a time when the EU has called on member states to make greater efforts to integrate Roma living on their territories, Viktor Orbán’s government, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, continues to turn a blind eye to the ongoing campaign to intimidate "Gypsy criminals" conducted by far-right Magyar groups. 
Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has dampened enthusiasm for the single currency in most of the countries of Central Europe. Today, only the Baltic States are still eager to join the Eurozone, writes "Rzeczpospolita".
On March 15, Hungarians commemorated their Revolution of 1848. This year, however, the image of the historical revolutionary Kossuth has faded into the background behind that of the current Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. 
The EU’s 27 member states have adopted a pact for the euro that will provide a collective guarantee for the single currency. However, a former Romanian diplomat argues that Brussels will still have to find the courage and the means to implement it.