#Orban

Szabolcs Panyi

panyiszabolcs

Why is Germany brokering an EU budget deal that lets Hungary off the hook & makes virtually impossible to sanction Orban’s rule of law breaches? German companies were actually instrumental

Zarah Sultana MP

zarahsultana

In the Holocaust Memorial Day debate in Parliament, I spoke about contemporary antisemitic threats, including Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.I've now received an angry letter from the Hungarian ambassador, asking

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/n Chatting with ppl in Hungary; although Covid itself seems to be well under control, I get the impression that economically it is beginning to bite quite severely. 2/n A

Holly

HollyBlomberg

Went down a rabbit hole looking at Israeli propaganda this morning & I came across one of the most glaring examples: The far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros appear

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/One mistake that occurs regularly in the analyses on #Orban’s #veto on the #EU-budget is that they start calculating the outcomes of options for *Hungary*. This is understandable as mature

Ferenc Laczo

FerencLaczo

An important, detailed and critical docu re Hungary and the EU was released on Arte last week https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/099755-000-A/hallo-herr-diktator/ Remarks on aspects I find problematic in this otherwise professional docu that

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-existential-crisis-rule-of-law-hungary-poland/This article contains a lot of true statements - and still is fundamentally mistaken and wrong. Thread. 2/The article takes autocracy in the East as a g

article7

article7news

So the editor in chief of @indexhu - Hungary's largest independent news site was fired yesterday. 1/ Another murky tale of pro-Orbán interference whose disguise as a business decision fools

Anne Applebaum

anneapplebaum

This headline repeats a lie. The EU is not 'punishing' PL and HU for their conservative policies. They are requiring those two countries to abide by the law. Orban and

Katalin Cseh

katka_cseh

Klubrádió, a crucial independent voice is permanently silenced today, falling victim to Viktor Orban’s crackdown on media freedomThanks @BBCSounds for the chance to discuss the case (from 26.30 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172x7d9

Pap Szilárd István

istvan_szilard

What many people in the #EU do not understand about #Orban's #veto of the #MFF & #NextGenerationEU. THREAD1. This is not a simple bluff. Yes, Orbán needs the EU funds

Szabolcs Panyi

panyiszabolcs

It's often overlooked that linking EU funds to rule of law is a very personal threat to Viktor Orbán and his family too. In recent years, my colleagues at @direkt36

Ben Stanley

BDStanley

It bears repeating that in 2014 Jarosław Kaczyński said "We need to do everything possible to ensure that Poland can become what Turkey is today. When people talk of Turkey,

New York City Antifa

NYCAntifa

good luck ignoring fascism until it goes away the liberal response is like "haha dude you lost" because they cannot fathom anything outside of the narrow political sphere they're accustomed

R. Daniel Kelemen

rdanielkelemen

And by the way, can Orbán really block the deal? No. No way. Not unless his longtime @EPP enablers and new pals like Portuguese PM Costa let him. Quick https://twitter.com/daniel_freund/status/1301149027074019328

Peter Frank

PeterFr89977258

1/Hungarian economist Dora Györffy has an interesting analysis of Central-Eastern Europe’s economic convergence to the EU-average between GFC and today, showing what % of the gap was closed in the

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