Trump Praises Controversial Hungarian Leader Shunned by Bush and Obama

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán returned to the White House for the first time in more than a decade to meet President Trump, despite former Presidents Obama and Bush cutting ties with the leader for his controversial stances on immigration. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.

Europäische Union: Ungarn ist verloren

ZEIT ONLINE: Unter Viktor Orbán wird Ungarns Demokratie systematisch zerstört. Hass, Rassismus und das anmaßende Ganoventum der Rechten sind Staatsräson. Die EU ist daran mit schuld.

Beda Magyar ist ein ungarischer Wissenschaftler, der in Budapest an der Zentraleuropäischen Universität (CEU) gearbeitet hat. Diese Hochschule wurde von der ungarischen Regierung mit neuen Anforderungen im Hochschulgesetz unter Druck gesetzt, bis sie sich Ende 2018 gezwungen sah, teilweise nach Wien umzuziehen. Beda Magyar schreibt hier unter Pseudonym, um sich und sein privates und berufliches Umfeld zu schützen. Seine Identität ist der Redaktion bekannt.

Ungarn hat Selbstmord begangen – mit ungeschickter Hilfe der EU und vor den Augen der übrigen, hilflosen EU-Mitglieder. Der Totentanz der Demokratie hat begonnen, wie schon einmal im 20. Jahrhundert: Menschenrechte, Pressefreiheit, die Unabhängigkeit von Justiz, Wissenschaft und Kunst sind wieder zum Spielball der Politik geworden; Fakten und Realitäten werden umgedeutet zu Angriffen auf die nationale Identität; Hass und Gesetzesbruch werden zum moralischen Imperativ erklärt. Dies alles geschieht nicht nur in der EU, sondern die EU hat selbst dazu beigetragen, den Wahngebilden der Rechtsextremen Leben einzuhauchen. Denn um nichts anderes handelt es sich bei der fixen Idee, die Brüsseler Bürokratie stelle eine Bedrohung für Ungarns kulturelle Identität dar. » | Ein Essay von Beda Magyar, Budapest | Dienstag, 09. April 2019

In English: Hungary Is Lost »

Hungarian Foreign Minister: We Are Fed Up with 'Politically Correct, Hypocritical' European Union

Inside Hungary's Far-right Movement

Inside the rise of Hungary's far-right movement The radical narratives mounted by Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party and far-right movements are gaining ground ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. Euronews reporter Valerie Gauriat traveled to Hungary for the national Republic Day to hear from supporters and critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration—and what it means to be Hungarian.

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Hungary's Foreign Minister on Russia, Donald Trump and Brexit - BBC Newsnight

James O'Brien speaks to the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó about Donald Trump and Russia - and what he thinks of Brexit.

Why Hungary's Crackdown On Refugees Is Being Criticised? – Inside Story

Muslims and Gays ‘Are Unwelcome Here’ - BBC News

A village in Hungary has banned Muslim dress, the call to prayer and and “homosexual propaganda”. By leading what it calls "the war against Muslim culture", it hopes to attract other Christian Europeans who object to multiculturalism in their own countries. Its mayor, Laszlo Toroczkai, says that while he would welcome people from Western Europe to live in the area, “we wouldn't like to attract Muslims to the village". Lesley Ashmall reports.

Viktor Orbán: Speech to New Hungarian Border Patrol Units January 12, 2017

Viktor Orbán and Hungary's Faltering Media Opposition - The Listening Post

Hungary Votes on Whether or Not to Accept Refugees

Hungary held a referendum on whether or not to accept the EU's planned mandatory refugee redistribution quota.

Hungarian Intel Analyst on Muslim Army Ready to Attack Europe

Hungarians Vote Against Migrant Quotas | DW News

Hungarian voters have almost unanimously rejected EU quotas for resettling refugees. But low turnout rendered the referendum invalid. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed the outcome as "outstanding."

Hungary Referendum Rejects EU Mandatory Migrant Plan

BBC: Hungarians who voted in a referendum on Sunday have overwhelmingly rejected mandatory EU migrant quotas, the national election office has said.

But exit polls suggest that turnout failed to reach the 50% needed for the result to be valid. » | Sunday, October 2, 2016

Hungary Votes on EU Refugee Quota Referendum

Hungarians are voting in a referendum which is the most serious challenge yet to the European union's hopes for a collective response to the refugee crisis.

Message to Illegal Immigrants from Hungary

Viktor Orbán Interview on the Migrant Crisis and Upcoming Referenedum (Hungarian TV, September 27, 2016)

Hungarian Academic on the Islamic Problem

Miklós Maróth: We should deport the criminal and not integrated Muslims.

Professor Miklós Maróth is a leading Hungarian conservative thinker. He is a university professor, a classical scholar, a scholar of Oriental studies, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the first dean of Matthias Corvinus Collegium, Hungary.

Why We Want to Move to Brexit Britain - BBC News

Since the referendum, migrants coming to the UK to live, work and study face considerable uncertainties - but some remain determined to settle in the UK. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been speaking to young people in Hungary who have decided to put their doubts aside and move to Brexit Britain.

Hungary Taunts Merkel over Terror and Says 'Our Problem Is Not in Mecca, But in Brussels'

EXPRESS: THE BITTER divisions ripping the European Union apart intensified today as Hungary launched an eviscerating attack on Brussels over migration and taunted Angela Merkel for failing to protect German people from Islamist terror.

In an astonishingly savage tirade the country’s leader Viktor Orban described the EU elite as serial “failures” and openly goaded struggling western European nations, describing them as “stagnated and incapable of change”.

The hardline Prime Minister called for a radical overhaul of the European project, decrying the growing loss of sovereignty to Brussels as a disaster and “one of the greatest threats in Europe today”.

And he issued a stunning rebuke to Mrs Merkel on migration, blaming recent terror attacks on the mas influx of refugees and saying Hungary no longer looked up to its near neighbour as a paragon of stability and common sense. » | Nick Gutteridge | Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Orban's Historic Speech Puts Hungary On War Footing