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Central Europe, Human Rights, Democracy | Former Counsel for International Law at www.csce.gov
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András BĂrĂł-Nagy
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đź‡đź‡ş The World Through Hungarian Eyes - Foreign Policy Attitudes in Hungary in 2025 📊 Policy Solutions’ comprehensive foreign policy attitudes survey explores how the Hungarian public viewed the world in 2025. âś… Read it here:
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Useful backgrounder on U.S. ideological exclusion and deportation from
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
,
@tylermcbrien.com
,
@lawfaremedia.org
—with bonus Helsinki Final Act reference. 1/
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Admin’s Embrace of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation
The targets, rhetoric, and legal justifications of ideological exclusion and deportation may change over time, but the motivation—suppressing dissent—remains the same.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-trump-admin-s-embrace-of-ideological-exclusion-and-deportation
4 days ago
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Great analysis, a tidy 24 minutes.
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5 days ago
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Rob Zaagman
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www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
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Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Tillis, Rosen, Barrasso, Coons, King, Moran, Merkley, Van Hollen Statement on Russia’s Christmas Bombing of Ukraine | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relatio...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jacky Rosen...
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/ranking-member-shaheen-senators-tillis-rosen-barrasso-coons-king-moran-merkley-van-hollen-statement-on-russias-christmas-bombing-of-ukraine
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"Nawrocki courted Braun, turning the antisemitic firebrand into a kingmaker. In order to prove his bona fides to Braun’s supporters, Nawrocki said he would end the annual presidential menorah lightings."
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ICYMI: State Dept. Sr Advisor for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, young Mr. Samson, on CE, “building on the [NSS], building on the [VP’s] speech from February at the Munich Security Conference,” “golden age of U.S.-Hungary relations,” etc. etc.
www.state.gov/digital-pres...
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Digital Press Briefing: Senior Advisor for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Samuel Samson - United States Department of State
MODERATOR: All right. Good after – or good morning, rather, from the State Department’s European Regional Media Center, or the Brussels Hub. I’d like to welcome everyone joining us for today’s virt...
https://www.state.gov/digital-press-briefing-senior-advisor-for-the-bureau-for-democracy-human-rights-and-labor-drl-samuel-samson/
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Notes from Poland
16 days ago
Poland will start producing anti‑personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War and deploy them on its borders with Russia and Belarus. It may also export some to Ukraine. Warsaw is currently in the process of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of such mines.
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Exclusive: Poland to start producing anti-personnel mines to lay along eastern border
Poland has decided to start producing anti‑personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War and plans to deploy them along its eastern border and may export them to Ukraine, the deputy defence mi...
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-start-producing-anti-personnel-mines-lay-along-eastern-border-2025-12-17/
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German Marshall Fund
17 days ago
🌍 Three days left to apply to the 2026 Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network (TILN) cohort! Are you ready to lead change and build inclusive communities across the Atlantic?
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There’s really a lot going on in this story.
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Am I sad that this egregious case of police brutality against Romani teens in Slovakia from 2009 is still dragging on in the year of 2025? Yes. Am I glad that there is another shot at justice? Yes.
romea.cz/cz/zahranici...
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KošickĂ˝ pĹ™Ăpad šikany romskĂ˝ch chlapcĹŻ se po letech vracĂ k soudu. KrajskĂ˝ soud zrušil osvobozujĂcĂ rozsudek policistĹŻ
KošickĂ˝ krajskĂ˝ soud zrušil na konci listopadu osvobozujĂcĂ rozsudek MÄ›stskĂ©ho soudu v KošicĂch v pĹ™Ăpadu deseti policistĹŻ obĹľalovanĂ˝ch ze šikany šesti romskĂ˝ch chlapcĹŻ na policejnĂ stanici v roce 200...
https://romea.cz/cz/zahranici/kosicky-pripad-sikany-romskych-chlapcu-se-po-letech-vraci-k-soudu-krajsky-soud-zrusil-osvobozujici-rozsudek-policistu
20 days ago
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Joost
21 days ago
Unsurprisingly, the latest scandal in Hungary about horrific physical and sexual child abuse at care facilities involves (but is not limited to) institutions with mainly Roma children
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More on the Pecs case from the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. (Sorry, I can't remember who 1st posted this.)
@hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social
helsinki.hu/en/wp-conten...
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21 days ago
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From the land of war-is-peace: Budapest Mayor charged with violating freedom of assembly for... assembling. Orban was humiliated by his Pride-ban failure and will now use select people as rhetorical punching bags until the elections (w/real consequences for those people).
telex.hu/belfold/2025...
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Karácsony Gergely elleni vádemelĂ©ssel zárta le a rendĹ‘rsĂ©g a Pride miatt indĂtott nyomozást
A főpolgármester közölte, hogy a gyülekezési jog megsértésével vádolják, amit teljesen abszurdként jellemzett.
https://telex.hu/belfold/2025/12/11/vademelesi-javaslattal-zarta-le-a-rendorseg-a-pride-miatt-inditott-nyomozasat-karacsony-gergely-ellen
21 days ago
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German Marshall Fund
22 days ago
💡 Apply before December 19 to join the 2026 Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network (TILN) cohort! 📝 More info:
buff.ly/117OUsR
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Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network
TILN is a highly innovative transatlantic network of emerging leaders from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate, peer mentor, and educate each other in the work of advancing and strengthening…
https://www.gmfus.org/transatlantic-inclusion-leaders-network
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ROMEA
22 days ago
⚖️ Nová šance na spravedlnost! SlovenskĂ˝ krajskĂ˝ soud zrušil osvobozujĂcĂ rozsudek policistĹŻ a naĹ™Ădil novĂ© projednánĂ pĹ™Ăpadu šikany romskĂ˝ch dÄ›tĂ, kterĂ˝ se stal symbolem selhánĂ systĂ©mu. 📢 VĂce v ÄŤlánku na
Romea.cz
:
1url.cz/@zahranici-s...
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Daniel Rona: fields great Qs about the non-Fidesz, non-Tisza minor parties and about a significant target constituency: undecided women voters.
youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?...
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
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Zsofia Banuta: Hungary’s current legal framework and its institutions are inadequate to respond to electoral fraud and abuse which may surpass 2018’s “slew of irregularities and fraud”.
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
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Daniel Hegudus: pushes back against erroneous assumptions regarding how Orban would have performed in hypothetically genuinely free&fair elections, posits such assumptions undermine election observation processes
youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?...
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
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Peter Kreko: “for the first time, Russia and the United States are united in their preference, with both President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump vocally supporting the Hungarian prime minister.” [!]
youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?...
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
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From @“gmfus.bsky.social : Hungary’s 2026 Elections: The Stakes and Challenges. Information, insights, analysis. Worth watching every second, but key food-for-thought for me:
youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?...
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
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"Absence is acquiescence: US can’t afford to step back from the global stage" Meaghan Mobbs, via The Hill
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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From @“gmfus.bsky.social : Hungary’s 2026 Elections: The Stakes and Challenges. Information, insights, analysis. Worth watching every second, but key food-for-thought for me:
youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?...
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Hungary’s 2026 Elections Stakes and Challenges
YouTube video by The German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://youtu.be/swZ36J4g4KA?si=af_NitoTFOSce8Dm
24 days ago
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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
25 days ago
📣 Just published: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism:(Un)uttered Sentences by FXB Roma Program Director
@magdamatache.bsky.social
! Pre-order on
@routledgebooks.bsky.social
:
tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
Read a short excerpt on Foreign Policy in Focus:
tinyurl.com/4nzfx59w
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Szabolcs Panyi
29 days ago
💥Hungary’s opposition sees this as the clearest sign Viktor Orbán is bracing for election defeat: his MPs are pushing a law to shield the Fidesz-loyal president (Tamás Sulyok) from removal by a future parliamentary majority. Others think Orbán himself may want to become president instead of PM.
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Stephanie Liechtenstein
29 days ago
The U.S. threatens to leave the OSCE unless the organization reforms
#OSCEMC2025
www.shrmonitor.org/the-us-threa...
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The US threatens to leave the OSCE unless the organization reforms
https://www.shrmonitor.org/the-us-threatens-to-leave-the-osce-unless-the-organization-reforms/
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Excellent reporting (in English) from Andras Szabo & Andras Petho,
@direkt36.bsky.social
, on the growing cracks in the Fidesz machine.
www.direkt36.hu/en/kielezett...
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”The situation is tense” – How Orbán has tried overcome Fidesz’s internal crisis - Direkt36
Fidesz underestimated opposition leader Péter Magyar so much that they realized too late that he posed a real threat to them. Direkt36 reveals how Viktor Orbán launched his spring offensive against Ma...
https://www.direkt36.hu/en/kielezett-a-helyzet-igy-probal-urra-lenni-orban-a-fidesz-belso-valsagan/
about 2 months ago
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Andrej Matisak
about 1 month ago
Old tensions simmer just below surface as Tusk and Merz to meet in Berlin
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#Poland
#Germany
#politics
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Old tensions simmer just below surface as Tusk and Merz to meet in Berlin
Ukraine will top agenda, but meeting comes as positive sentiment towards Germany in Poland hits near record lows
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/polish-german-leaders-meet-tensions-ukraine
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Daniel Hegedus
about 1 month ago
THREAD 1/6 Obviously, much of this is speculation, but I think
#Orbán’s
trip to
#Moscow
today — and his talks with Vladimir
#Putin
— should be seen primarily through the lens of yesterday’s Orbán–Vučić meeting, not last week’s peace-negotiation rollercoaster.
@politico.eu
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Gabriela Greilinger
about 1 month ago
Some thoughts, in a hopefully more coherent form than my 300-character Bluesky posts
hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...
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Why are Péter Magyar’s Anti-Corruption Claims so Successful?
To understand why Péter Magyar’s anti-corruption claims were so successful in rallying opposition against Orbán, consider the broader environment in which he emerged - writes Gabriela Greilinger.
https://hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/why-are-peter-magyars-anti-corruption
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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
about 1 month ago
📣 Live now! FXB's Roma Program Director, Dr.
@magdamatache.bsky.social
has just launched her new book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences" during the MEMOROBIA conference:
tinyurl.com/6w9bj9wt
More information about the book:
tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
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The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences
Anti-Roma racism, one of Europe’s oldest and most enduring racisms, has been neglected in mainstream theories and discourse. This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental h...
https://tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
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ROMEA
about 1 month ago
1url.cz/@1711-en-romea
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Thousands demonstrate against incoming Czech cabinet, Jarmila Balážová and David Tišer among those who addressed them - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place
Thousands of people gathered on the Old Town Square in Prague to demonstrate against the incoming government of the Action for Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO), "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD), and th...
https://1url.cz/@1711-en-romea
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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
about 1 month ago
📢 Have you registered yet? Join us for the MEMOROBIA Conference to hear
@magdamatache.bsky.social
, FXB Roma Program Director, present her upcoming book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences. November 24–25, 2025, hybrid format. Agenda and registration:
hsph.me/MEMOROBIA
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ROMEA
about 1 month ago
1url.cz/@gyb-romea
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Germany: YouTuber Bizzely is restoring the Sinti Roma community's voice in their own language, which has survived the silence of history - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place
Franz-Elias Schneck (25), better known by his Sinto name, Bizzely, carries on his shoulders both the hope of a new generation of Sinti in Germany and the weight of centuries of history. The empirical ...
https://1url.cz/@gyb-romea
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Excellent reporting (in English) from Andras Szabo & Andras Petho,
@direkt36.bsky.social
, on the growing cracks in the Fidesz machine.
www.direkt36.hu/en/kielezett...
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”The situation is tense” – How Orbán has tried overcome Fidesz’s internal crisis - Direkt36
Fidesz underestimated opposition leader Péter Magyar so much that they realized too late that he posed a real threat to them. Direkt36 reveals how Viktor Orbán launched his spring offensive against Ma...
https://www.direkt36.hu/en/kielezett-a-helyzet-igy-probal-urra-lenni-orban-a-fidesz-belso-valsagan/
about 2 months ago
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Andrej Matisak
about 2 months ago
From chalk to a roar: Slovakia’s rain-soaked crowds revive the spirit of 1989
spectator.sme.sk/politics-and...
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From chalk to a roar: Slovakia’s rain-soaked crowds revive the spirit of 1989
Around 50,000 people filled Bratislava’s Námestie slobody, joining tens of thousands elsewhere to mark 17 November and to protest against PM Fico’s government.
https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/slovakia-protests-tens-of-thousands-rally-against-robert-fico-on-velvet-revolution-anniversary
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Andrej Matisak
about 2 months ago
A
#VelvetRevolution
years in the making: What looked like a sudden uprising was the culmination of civic defiance, underground networks and a widening gap between the rulers and the ruled.
spectator.sme.sk/politics-and...
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A Velvet Revolution years in the making
What looked like a sudden uprising was the culmination of civic defiance, underground networks and a widening gap between the rulers and the ruled.
https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/the-velvet-revolution-didnt-begin-on-17-november
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Tim Haughton
about 2 months ago
17.11.1989 a 17.11.2025
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“[T]he White House is said to be wary of throwing its full weight behind Orbán as he faces a potential revolt at the polls that could bring the opposition to power.”
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about 2 months ago
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Chloe Hadavas
about 2 months ago
A wonderfully reported profile of Peter Magyar, Orban's main challenger in the upcoming Hungarian election, by
@lilirutai.bsky.social
in
@foreignpolicy.com
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The Man Who Could Topple Orban
How Peter Magyar went from a former Fidesz insider to Hungary’s most popular politician.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/hungary-election-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-opposition-challenger/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aHVuZ2FyeS1lbGVjdGlvbi12aWt0b3Itb3JiYW4tcGV0ZXItbWFneWFyLW9wcG9zaXRpb24tY2hhbGxlbmdlcg==&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
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Meanwhile, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Dem Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) spearheaded a resolution calling on EU countries—name checking Hungary—to end dependence on Russian energy. 1/4
www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
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Ranking Member Shaheen, Senator Tillis, Colleagues Lead Bipartisan Resolution Urging Europe to Cut Remaining Russian Energy Ties Ahead of Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán’s White House Visit | United St...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons...
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/ranking-member-shaheen-senator-tillis-colleagues-lead-bipartisan-resolution-urging-europe-to-cut-remaining-russian-energy-ties-ahead-of-hungarian-prime-minister-orbans-white-house-visit
about 2 months ago
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Slovakia’s Christian Democrats keep finding out that Robert Fico is still Robert Fico.
spectator.sme.sk/politics-and...
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News digest: A missing reindeer and Fico’s hunt for the faithful - The Slovak Spectator
Museum purges roll on, a Nigerian footballer finds home in Slovakia, and a Canadian company riles Pezinok.
https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/news-digest-a-missing-reindeer-and-fico-s-hunt-for-the-faithful
about 2 months ago
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benjamin novak
about 2 months ago
Trump and Orban will meet at the White House today. David Pressman, former US Ambassador to the UN Security Council and Hungary, explains what Orban is doing in Washington, and offers a very strong take on what Trump and Orban really have in common.
time.com/7332003/vikt...
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Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump’s Attacks on Independence
Independence is "fundamental to the health of any democracy—and it has been systematically dismantled in Hungary."
https://time.com/7332003/viktor-orban-donald-trumps-independence/
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Trump meets Orban again today. I previously observed: “When…the amb. to Hungary appointed by Donald Trump said that Mr Trump would love to have what Viktor Orbán has, he didn’t mean Viktor Orbán’s policies …
about 2 months ago
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Katalin Halmai
about 2 months ago
Stakeholders described a severely restricted media environment within which independent journalism operates, while also highlighting the deep political polarisation shaping the run-up to the expected April 2026 elections
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Hungary: Media freedom remains in crisis mode ahead of 2026 elections – ipi.media
In the past year, Fidesz has maintained the most sophisticated system of media capture and control yet seen within the European Union.
https://ipi.media/hungary-media-freedom-in-crisis/
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András Tóth-Czifra
about 2 months ago
These tactics - data breach of an opposition database used for "we know where you live" type of intimidation, threat of prosecution and national security inquiry, etc. - are depressingly familiar from Russia from the past 5-6 years.
www.euractiv.com/news/orban-r...
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Orbán rival says cyberattack behind database leak | Euractiv
Magyar also accused Russia of orchestrating the attacks to keep Orbán in power
https://www.euractiv.com/news/orban-rival-says-cyberattack-behind-database-leak/
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Agnes Urban
about 2 months ago
My short comment in The Guardian about the important role of Blikk in the Hungarian media market. Ringier, the publisher of the tabloid was sold to a pro-government owner just a few days ago. Leaving of all international publishers was an unimaginable scenario after the 1990 political transition.
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Jakub Jaraczewski
2 months ago
⚖️🗺️Our friends at World Justice Project just released the 2025 edition of the Rule of Law Index. Unsurprisingly, they found an accelerating decline in the state of the rule of law globally. Let's take a look at Central & Eastern Europe and how this trend plays out there. 1/
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I still want to know: why did then-Hungarian president Katalin Novak pardon a convicted terrorist? Who, in the Orban government, moved that paperwork to her desk?
edition.cnn.com/2023/04/30/w...
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Hungary pardoned convicted terrorist on the eve of Pope visit | CNN
A far-right activist convicted of terrorism was among several prisoners pardoned in Hungary before the Pope’s official visit to the country this week, it has emerged.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/30/world/hungary-terrorist-pardon-pope-francis-visit-intl-hnk/index.html
2 months ago
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ROMEA
2 months ago
1url.cz/@konsent-tur...
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Konsent and ROMEA deliver Czech President and incoming Czech PM 59,000+ signatures against appointing far-right politician Foreign Minister - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place
The Konsent and ROMEA organizations have delivered petitions to Czech President Petr Pavel and the chair of the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) movement, Andrej Babiš (the incoming PM), expressi...
https://1url.cz/@konsent-turek-romea
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