Ungarn

Yearbook

    Sparpolitik in Ungarn
  • In jüngster Zeit erscheint Ungarn in den westlichen Medien häufiger als zuvor. In der Regel handelt es sich um kritische Artikel, in denen es um den Ministerpräsidenten Viktor Orbán, die Regierungstätigkeit und die vom Parlament verabschiedeten Gesetze geht. Hintergrund sind die drastischen...
    Stehen wir vor dem Verlust der „Linken“ in Ungarn?
  • Die Europawahlen verdeutlichten und vertieften die große Enttäuschung der Linken in Ungarn. Zum ersten Mal geriet das Gleichgewicht zwischen den beiden größten Parteien des Landes ins Wanken. Die Sozialisten erlitten dramatische Verluste, und ihr Koalitionspartner, die Freien Demokraten, gewann...
    The Hungarian Disaster
  • I hate writing this article. Since I oppose the alarming authoritarian developments in my country and am pleading for the restoration of civil liberties, I might appear to be what I definitely am not: someone who thinks that the 21st-century European variant of liberal democracy is a political order...

Focus

    East of the West
  • This analysis has been presented at the International Workshop of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation “On the situation of the left in Europe after the EU elections: New challenges”. July 21-23, 2014, in Berlin
    Hungary
  • Short Summary of the 2014 EP Elections 1. Many citizens believe that on April 6 at the parliamentary elections they have fulfilled their obligations. Therefore, many people have accrued to the question why the EU Parliament and the national election were not held at the same time. If it is held in...
    Landslide victory for FIDESZ in the Parliamentary elections
  • At the parliamentary elections held in Hungary on 6 April 2014 the ruling rigth-wing populist Fidesz party won a landslide victory over its opponents and retained its 2/3 majority. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's policy has been justified by a strong nationalist course in order to catch the wind from the sails of Jobbik.

Blog

    Chairman of the Hungarian Workers’ Party 2006 Attila Vajnai Facing Jail
  • Attila Vajnai was found guilty and sentenced by the Budapest 6th District Police to pay a fine of 50 thousand forints (about EUR 160). He was accused of  having taken photos at the demonstration organized by others during Turkish Head of State Erdogan`s visit to Budapest. On the photo those people...
    Anti-Government Demonstrations in Hungary
  • Representatives of the ruling FIDESZ party presented a bill to the Hungarian parliament on the amendment of the labour code increasing the number of working after-hours that can be ordered by employers to 400 a year in such a way that the wage for it is to be paid not immediately but only within...
    Revenge against the Opposition will begin
  • The parliamentary elections in Hungary were characterized by a pervasive overlap between state and ruling party resources, undermining the contestants’ ability to compete on an equal basis, OSCE/ODIHR observers said.
    Solidarity action and antifascist demonstration held in Budapest
  • Hungarian civil groups headed by the Hungarian United Left called for a demonstration for 8 October in the heart of the previous Jewish ghetto of Budapest in order to protest against the presently very powerful autocracy of the right-wing ruling power of FIDESZ and KDNP and the brutal police violence committed against Attila Vajnai.
    Anti-fascist Arrested in Hungary
  • Attila Vajnai, Chairman of the Hungarian Workers’ Party 2006/ Munkáspárt 2006, has been brutally tackled by the Hungarian police. There was a man in Budapest selling Hitler souvenirs and Attila called the police to prosecute the seller. Instead of acting against the seller, they tackled Attila: torn his clothes, broke his glasses and injured him.
    The Destruction of Reason
  • The Hungarian Academy of Sciences wants to dissolve the Georg Lukács Archives in Budapest. On a campaign against ‘Leftists’ and ‘Liberals’.
    Rassistische Staatspropaganda, Migrationspolitik und Autoritarismus
  • In Ungarn, gepflastert mit rassistischer Staatspropaganda, wurde am 2. Oktober ein nationales Referendum über die EU-Quotenregelung und ungarische Migrationspolitik abgehalten. Obwohl es mit nur 43% Beteiligung – selbst bei 98% Ablehnung des EU-Modells – ungültig war, spricht die Regierung von einem großen Erfolg und will die Verfassung dementsprechend ändern.
    Das Fidesz-Rezept
  • Fidesz ist weder eine Basisbewegung noch Ergebnis einer spezifischen politischen Theorie oder Philosophie. Vielmehr stellt Fidesz eine penibel konstruierte Religion dar, ein Machtzentrum, das von der Regierung und vom Oberhaupt der Kirche gelenkt wird. Ihr Zugang baut auf einem billigen Populismus auf, der von Meinungsumfragen gesteuert wird. Öffentliche Diskurse (Propaganda) werden dabei auf der emotionalen Ebene geführt bzw. geschürt und mehrheitstauglich ausgerichtet.
    Refugee crisis and Hungary
  • Before the current refugee crisis Hungary’s immigration policy focused on the fight against illegal migration, but an explicit overall migration strategy was blatantly lacking.
    Hungary’s municipal elections in 2014
  • The ruling right wing Fidesz party won a resounding victory in nationwide municipal elections on Sunday 12th October 2014, cementing prime minister Viktor Orban’s position as Hungary’s most dominant political force since the system change. Fidesz won the mayoralties in all but one of the 10 largest...
    Die soziale Lage in Ungarn
  • Die Partei der Europäischen Linken hat eine Bestandsaufnahme der sozialen Lage in verschiedenen Ländern, in denen sie Mitgliedsparteien hat, durchgeführt. Im April war das Ungarn – eines der sogenannten postkommunistischen Länder. Der in Prag lebende Autor nahm die Gelegenheit wahr, die ungarische Situation mit jener in der Tschechischen Republik zu vergleichen.