Will Hungary continue to be a banana republic ruled by a corrupt elite who oversee a lagging standard of living for the general population, or will it rejoin the 21st century? www.csis.org/analysis/wha...
The EU says it’s determined to crack down on election disinformation.
Hungary is testing just how far it’s willing to go.
🇸🇰 #Slovakia will "take up the baton from Hungary" and block European Union funds to #Ukraine if Hungarian PM Orban loses the upcoming election, Slovak PM Fico said in a video address on March 8.
kyivindependent.com/slovakia-to-...
#russia
Russian propaganda has launched a disinformation campaign using AI-generated fake images of Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards, according to Hungarian fact-checkers from the Vastagbőr project.
The images were published by Ripost, a tabloid controlled and funded by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s party.
💬 The Ukrainian branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which supplies Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, was severely damaged by fire after a Russian attack in late January, Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal told Interfax #Ukraine on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The case of Hungary shows how autocrats can rig elections legally, using legislative majorities to change the law and neutralize the opposition at every turn, no matter what strategy they adopt.
a chart summarizing the RMSE by party and pollster in Hungary 2002-2024
Hungary is scheduled to vote in 40 days. How far off have Hungarian pollsters been since 2002? Vox Populi summarizes kozvelemeny.org/2026/03/03/a...
Officials in Brussels say they have "options" to lift Hungary's veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine.
But what are these options and how feasible are they?
I take a closer look.
ODIHR observation mission in Hungary for the 12 April elections
https://www.europesays.com/2810454/
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has officially initiated an election observation mission in…
A Polish court has suspended the case against Russian-Spanish journalist Pavel Rubtsov, also known as Pablo González, who is accused of spying for Moscow
It says the suspect, who was sent back to Russia in 2024 as part of a prisoner swap, cannot be located.
The EU needs a "break-the-glass" moment. It can't be that tiny countries like Hungary or Greece undermine a 27 country block when Russia's invasion of Ukraine poses an existential threat. Business as usual must end. Time to confront the governance crisis...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-eu-gov...
For me the two most important elections globally this year will be midterms in the US in November, and elections in Hungary on April 12. The first will shape the course of democracy in the US, and the latter… Bne IntelliNews #HungarianElections #USMidterms #Democracy #Elections2023 #Hungary
#Article7 would be more effective...
⚡️ Ukraine proposes 'doable solutions' in Druzhba oil dispute as tensions with Hungary escalate.
"We demand Budapest stop dragging Ukraine into Hungary's domestic politics," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
Hungary shouldn’t “disrespect” the EU’s decision to give €90 billion to Ukraine, which Budapest has blocked after originally agreeing last December, António Costa has told POLITICO.
From #TheGlobalJigsaw catalog on the #UkraineWar highly recommended episodes - on the occupied territories:
P 1 looks at Crimea, which was annexed 12 years ago
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
P 2 focuses on Moscow’s subsequent efforts to assert itself in Ukraine's East
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
A new book analyzes how the media and political actors in #Romania, #Poland, #Ukraine and #Russia engaged with Ukrainian Refugees. The volume explores how the public problem of the Ukrainian refugees is constructed in political and media discourses.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🤖📈 Romania’s pro-Russian far-right leader George Simion may have lost the presidency at home, but his slick online campaign machine boosted Karol Nawrocki in Poland — and is now fueling Law and Justice’s populist comeback bid.
The DOJ can't sustain the cases that they bring against protestors -- mostly because the cases are built on lies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
🖤 8 years since the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and justice is still pending. Oligarch Marián Kočner was acquitted of ordering the killing, but the verdict was overturned. In this book excerpt, Tomáš Madleňák explains the errors & the grounds for the retrial which has just started.
The SAVE Act was never going to pass the Senate, but passage was never the point. This piece lays out the real strategy: throw a barrage of voter suppression moves against the wall—all of which are designed to sow fear, suppress turnout, and muddy the midterms—and see what sticks.
Op-Ed: “Sovereignty Is Not a Shield: AG Kokott’s Constitutional Line in Commission v. Hungary (C-829/24)”
Diehl Aviation opens a 3,000 sqm logistics hub in Nyírbátor, Hungary, boosting storage for Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX components. The facility supports rising production demands and strengthens Hungary's aerospace sector. #DiehlAviation #Hungary #Aerospace
airpronews.com/2026/02/17/d...
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
An interesting read on the science of soulmates and growth-based views in relationships
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Pavitt says what we feel to be destiny may be a pull from our nervous system recognising something that hurt us before and trying to fix it, a pattern therapists call a trauma bond'
“Shutting down court cases by decree is not how a democracy functions.
This is the government telling the courts what they can address simply because it does not like the legal challenge or those bringing it.”
News update from Hungary, via @hrw.org ⤵️
US Secretary of State Marco #Rubio is heading to Hungary just days after President #Trump’s public endorsement of Viktor #Orbán, ahead of #Hungary’s high-stakes April 12 election www.politico.eu/article/marc...
🚨🚨Welcome news: The #EU is hatching an unprecedented plan that could give #Ukraine partial #membership in the bloc as early as next year, as Brussels tries to shore up the country’s position in Europe and away from #Moscow. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/5-st...
Today, in collaboration with @mertekmonitor.bsky.social, the Lab issued a report documenting how media capture and targeted pressure work together to narrow the space for independent journalism in Hungary. It proposes recommendations for countering this repression.
www.law.nyu.edu/rule-law-lab...
TISZA's challengers to Orban's rule vow to fight corruption, adopt the euro, and anchor Hungary firmly in EU and NATO. But the party's new programme also presents plans to introduce a wealth tax, and cut income tax for lower earners.
www.reuters.com/business/hun...
