Budapost

Blue collar workers seem to be improving their position on the wage ladder, while intellectuals are among the losers. Portfolio reports a sharp increase in  worker’s wages last year. Skilled ...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/blue-collar-workers-among-the-higher-earners/

A veteran left-wing politician hopes Péter Magyar can bridge the foreign policy gap dividing government and opposition. On Index, Gyula Hegyi who after serving as a member of the Hungarian Natio...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/former-socialist-mep-urges-foreign-policy-consensusa-veteran-left-wing-politician-hopes-peter-magyar-can-bridge-the-foreign-policy-gap-dividing-government-and-opposition-on-index-gyula-hegyi-who-aft/

Opposition-leaning commentators find inconsistencies in Péter Magyar’s interpretation of current affairs, first of all in his views about Ukraine. In Heti Világgazdaság, political scientist ...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/opposition-embarrassment-with-peter-magyar/

The pro-government nationwide daily repeats its claim that Péter Magyar’s movement numbers Datadat, an IT business linked to former Socialist PM Gordon Bajnai, among its partners. On Thursday,...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/peter-magyar-suspected-of-being-supported-by-bajnais-men/

Commentators agree in condemning the attempt by a Brussels district mayor to ban the National Conservatism conference but not on the context. In Népszava, Mária Gál describes the attempt to sh...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/diverging-interpretations-on-the-short-lived-brussels-ban/

Pro-government commentators liken the attempt to ban the conference, at which PM Orbán was due to speak, to 20th century communist practices. The series of National Conservatism conferences in t...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/attempt-to-shut-down-national-conservativism-conference-in-brussels-fails/

A liberal commentator urges the leader of the Twin Tail Dogs to show that his party is more than just a joke. Gergely Kovács, the founding leader of the Twin-Tail Dog party has won the oppositio...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/twin-tail-dog-party-leader-wins-local-opposition-primary/

A left-wing commentator dismisses the official reason given to explain why next year’s budget will be passed in the autumn, instead of May or June as for the past 9 years. Gergely Gulyás, the ...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/2025-budget-to-wait-until-us-election-day/

As the new opposition star is apparently drawing more and  more followers, praise and criticism are also becoming stronger and more frequent. In Magyar Hang, Szabolcs Szerető finds that Péter ...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/weeklies-on-growing-interest-in-peter-magyar/

A left-wing commentator thinks that Péter Magyar may score a significant moral victory over the government if his new TISZA party makes it to the European Parliament and joins the European Peopl...

https://www.budapost.eu/2024/04/peter-magyars-new-party-registered-to-run-for-seats-in-the-european-parliament/