Hungary

Heaven Over Budapest: A Sign of the Times in the Hungarian Capital

Your faithful diarist went out on the Feast of Stephen—and saw something like a miracle. Seriously.

Sunday, August 20th was the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian king of Hungary, coronated in the year 1000 with a crown sent by the Pope. It is also one of the three official national Magyar holidays. This year I received an invitation to watch the fireworks over the Danube from the terrace of the Carmelite monastery where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has his office. I stood with a crowd of partygoers oohing and aahing at the spectacular blasts illuminating the city below.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary

Viktor Orbán: “The world is heading towards a collision”

In a state of anxiety and feeling trapped, the European Union has chosen “decoupling” and “de-risking” instead of connecting to the world, thereby losing its global competitiveness, according to the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, who gave a speech on Saturday, July 22, at Tusványos, a conservative political gathering in Transylvania.

As with every speech he has made in the past at the Tusványos Summer University in Băile Tușnad, Romania, Viktor Orbán once again reflected on the most important geopolitical trends, European current affairs, and their impact on Hungary. He believes the EU is “rich and weak,” and it is isolating itself in a world with many uncertainties, in which the balance of power has tilted. To underline his message, the prime minister cited the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report, which forecasts that neither the United Kingdom nor France or Italy will be among the world’s ten largest economies by 2030, while Germany will drop to tenth place.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary

Poland and Hungary Are What Healthy Democracies Look Like

These countries aren’t in decline, despite what the Left wants you to think.

Even by today’s low standards, this is shockingly delusional,” I thought after reading Kati Marton’s diatribe against the current Polish and Hungarian governments in the Los Angeles Times last week.

Most such pieces are relatively standard and don’t warrant a response. This one, it seemed to me, mutilated the charred corpse of the truth. As a Polish citizen and Polish speaker who has lived in Hungary, I concluded it was too much to overlook. Allow me to share some of my experiences from these two countries, which most often bear no resemblance to the ones Marton describes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungary, Poland

Harper says right-leaning parties should have closer ties with Hungary

Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between right-leaning political parties including the Conservative Party of Canada and the Hungarian government, who has been accused of democratic backsliding.

Harper chairs the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of right-leaning political parties that includes Canada’s Conservatives as well as the Fidesz Party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Our media is “Outraged” or “Appalled” and Harper is Hitler of course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary

Hungary must resist America’s woke imperialism

Samantha Power, head administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Budapest last week with one mission – to save Central European nations from themselves. Her main target was Hungary.

According to a press release issued by USAID to accompany her trip to the Hungarian capital, Power wants ‘to help support democracy in Central Europe’. And she wants ‘independent media to thrive and build new audiences’. ‘[A] free and diverse press is a cornerstone of democracy’, she tweeted, ‘and in Hungary, independent journalists are facing real challenges’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary, Hypocrisy, USA

Why the EU elites hate Hungary

No, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is not an ‘electoral autocracy’.

The EU’s demonisation of Hungary has reached a new low. Last week, the European Parliament agreed on a resolution, stating that Hungary is an ‘electoral autocracy’ and not a ‘full democracy’, and that it is undermining European values. A few days later, the European Commission recommended suspending €7.5 billion in funding to Hungary, citing concerns over democratic backsliding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary

Orban gives Pope a loaded gift during visit to Hungary

“This is what I wish for you: that the cross be your bridge between the past and the future. Religious sentiment has been the lifeblood of this nation, so attached to its roots. Yet the cross, planted in the ground, not only invites us to be well-rooted, it also raises and extends its arms towards everyone,” Francis said during his address while presiding over the closing Mass of the International Eucharistic Congress.

“My wish is that you be like that: grounded and open, rooted and considerate,” he added.

Orban’s personal gift to the Pope, however, appeared to underline his nationalist and anti-immigrant stance: a copy of a 13th century letter from Hungarian King Bela IV to Pope Innocent IV. The letter asked the then-Pope for help in resisting the Mongol invasion of Hungary and Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary, Pope Francis

Christian Hungary Is Not the Problem

Instead of attacking Orban, European progressives should fix their own countries.

The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology. The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known threat to the French authorities: a year ago he had been arrested for trying to burn down the Cathedral of Nantes.

The French have become accustomed to these horrific stories in recent years. In 2020, a Tunisian immigrant beheaded a woman and killed two others at a church in the French city of Nice. In 2016, two jihadists slit the throat of a French priest, yelling “Allahu akbar” as they left the church.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", Hungary

Hungary: An Overweighted Symbol

Into a void of ignorance about the country, liberals and conservatives project frightening or hopeful things.

“… Into this void of ignorance, people project frightening or hopeful things. This mismatch leads to funny outcomes. Cosmopolitan liberals want to use Western governments to pressure social networks to suppress “misinformation” — about politics, or the pandemic. Orbán’s emergency powers had just such a law against spreading disinformation. In his hands they viewed it as an attempt to destroy political opposition. And yet, while two arrests were made, nobody was charged under this law — quite unlike the speech laws in the U.K. and Germany, which do result in criminal cases. When cosmopolitan liberals talk about Hungary’s constitutional reforms and electoral process, they sound like Tucker Carlson on 2020. They say the election wasn’t “fair” because of problems of representation in various institutions, especially the media that nationalist conservatives have tried to dominate. Western liberals want to limit the influence of billionaires on domestic politics, but they want George Soros to have freer hands to take on Orbán from his home in Westchester.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHungary

Hungarian PM Says EU Action On LGBT Rights Amounts To ‘Legal Hooliganism’

The legal action launched against Hungary by the European Commission over measures it said discriminated against LGBT people amounts to “legal hooliganism” and is “shameful,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on July 16.

The commission — the European Union’s executive arm — opened legal action against Hungary on July 15 in relation to a new law that bans schools using materials deemed as promoting homosexuality, which many in the EU have slammed as an attack on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people by stigmatizing sexual minorities and stifling discourse on sexual orientation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay, European Union, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary

EU: Every Knee Shall Bow To The Rainbow Flag

EU: Every Knee Shall Bow To The Rainbow Flag

How fanatical are European elites about LGBT? Look:

Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, said Hungary either “must leave” the EU or repeal the law, which bans TV shows and other content seen as championing LGBT lifestyles for the under-18s.

However, some eastern European governments refused to join 17 of the bloc’s 27 countries in a rare joint statement condemning a fellow member state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay, European Union, Hungary

‘Racist,’ ‘Xenophobe,’ ‘Tyrant’: Hungarian PM Slandered for Speaking the Truth on Islam

Criticism against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is again on the rise, now that his nation is set to take the presidency of the Visegrad group of Central European nations next month. According a recent report, “Britain’s government has condemned comments made by Viktor Orbán about Muslims and migrants on the eve of a bilateral meeting between the Hungarian leader and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In a statement, No. 10 Downing Street said that Orbán’s 2018 comment to a German newspaper about ‘Muslim invaders’ and his later description of migrants as ‘a poison’ were ‘divisive and wrong’.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West