Category Archives: social background HU

I have been planning for some time to write a post about the neo-Nazi propaganda that can be heard daily on Duna TV. Duna TV was established during the Antall government and is supposed to serve the Hungarian diaspora in … Continue reading →

Somewhat belatedly I will spend some time today on a singularly distasteful event that took place on December 22, the fourth Sunday of Advent. Advent is now celebrated widely in Hungary. When I was growing up I never heard of … Continue reading →

Greece’s Golden Dawn and Hungary’s Jobbik have both been termed neo-Nazi parties by the World Jewish Congress. The European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency issued a series of recommendations last week aimed at stemming the “mainstreaming of elements of extremist ideology … Continue reading →

Billions of euros-worth of tax is lost in Hungary each year because of VAT fraud. The tax authority suggests the issue is innate to the European tax system, and cannot be stopped. In November, a former analyst at Hungary’s National … Continue reading →

In recent years I have become increasingly despondent and alarmed at developments in Hungary, the latest of which were outlined by András Schiff (A shrine to our Nazi past, 12 December). From 1991 to 2000 I lived and worked in … Continue reading →

Every bureaucracy tends to overregulate, but what has been going on since the Orbán government came into power defies imagination. Regulation on top of regulation in all aspects of life, which naturally makes not only the individual’s life ever more … Continue reading →