What is happening around Trump is unprecedented in America’s quarter-century history

“Orban is the best face of the campaign to amend the basic contract” – Tamas Foti spoke with European Parliament representative Daniel Freund

Daniel Freund (38) Representative of the German Green Party in the European Parliament. In May, he went on a fact-finding trip to Hungary as a member of the Budget Oversight Committee. They were curious about the conditions under which Hungary uses EU funds, and how the Board of Auditors ensures that recipients use the funds in a transparent and accountable manner. The mission received a somewhat hostile reception from government agencies, the most ridiculous part of which was when the government spokesman described their work in an offensive manner, at the same time as their negotiations were taking place. According to Freund, the next round of EU enlargement cannot take place without amending the EU’s basic treaty, for example, the unanimity requirement in some areas must be abolished. As Hungarian and Polish practice shows, the EU cannot afford to have one or two countries obstruct important EU policies. “Orban has done useful work in the past year to ensure that as many countries as possible see that this is not possible without amending the basic treaty.

Andras Nerges: Color division – what should Hungary be?

“Hungary should be as it was in 1867, at the time of settlement” – this is the wish Viktor Orbán In the Kochi oracle, it was said this year – as if to indicate that the country is not the same today. Let me reassure the Prime Minister, that there is nothing wrong, and there is no need to wait an unimaginably long time to fulfill his wish, indeed, in many respects, we are already almost as we were at that time.

There is, for example, a striking similarity in that (and to ignore this, let me ask for help from the authors of the settlement period), for example, it is excellent for both the scientist and the writer janus Asboth, From the Prime Minister at the time, who ruled for nearly two decades, About Kalman Tessa He testified: “He appointed ministers whom he had created from nothing, or at least who were completely subject to his every desire. The party was a convenient instrument of his system of government, a blindly obedient vehicle to his every whim, and a voting machine in effect.”

M is no differentExat Kalman Nor according to anyone who saw it that way: “Kalman Tisza played a dictatorial role, so to speak, holding all eight ministerial portfolios, thinking and speaking on behalf of his entire party.” We have already found here something in which Hungary became what it was in the years following, for example, slave settlement. Janos Asbuth declared of the largest parliamentary party at the time that it was nothing more than “a convenient instrument of the Prime Minister’s system of government, a reliable instrument blindly obedient to his every whim, in effect a voting machine.” We have to bow our heads even more to Asboth’s foresight, because he could not have even guessed the composition of the current government coalition, but he fully realized during the settlement that this might be the only solution to practically concentrate power.

Berend T. Evan: Trump and the 2024 Presidential Election

On August 23, the first televised debate took place between eight Republican presidential candidates. Trump card Without his participation. His absence was an arrogant act of impudence. But what is even more shocking is that the other candidates did not dare to criticize him, and he was even said to be the best president of the 21st century ever. After the debate, it also became clear that he had emerged victorious in a strange way: a Wall Street Journal poll conducted after the debate showed that Trump had the support of 59 percent of Republican voters, with the second highest approval rating behind him. for him But Santis The Florida governor trailed by 46 points and received only 13 percent.

It is difficult to understand what lies behind the wave of political success of Donald Trump. Four federal or state indictments have already declared his guilt, backed by rich facts:

1. He urged his supporters to rise up on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to forcefully change the lost elections.
2. Encouraging vote counters in the state of Georgia to cheat, and trying to achieve his victory with fake voters,
3. For illegally taking a batch of top-secret documents and hiding the evidence,
4. He paid a large sum of money for the silence of the girl of joy (if that Hungarian word still exists) in a false way and
5. Charged with commercial fraud.

This is unprecedented in America’s quarter-century history. Only the last mentioned lawsuit has been completed, the other lawsuits are still ongoing. However, he is high in the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, casting a shadow over the possibility of his next presidential run.

I wonder why a large portion of the Republican Party’s voting base is lining up behind him? What makes him a desirable presidential candidate in the eyes of millions? Do they not see or do they not want to see the real Trump, who cannot distinguish between truth and lies, is a narcissist with a blatantly bad character, and only seeks out and imposes his own interests? For example, they believe what he says in his new presidential campaign, that “a nuclear holocaust would have already happened if I had not reached an agreement with North Korea. There will be a nuclear holocaust if they did not re-elect him as president.”

Why are the stands in football stadiums empty? – Ernie Kardos interviewed Mihaly Mozebek

A 3,800-capacity stadium was built for the 1,800 villagers living in Velksot, while the average number of spectators at top-flight league matches in Hungary barely reaches 3,500 – caught our attention Mihaly Mozbek A sports economist, he believes the builders of huge local stadiums could be held responsible for empty stands. According to Mozbek, if the level of league matches does not improve significantly, the public will remain uninterested in football. According to the honorary associate professor at the University of Physical Education, the growing interest of spectators in the Hungarian national team can be explained not so much by the high level of football, but by patriotic feelings fueled by politics, which made going to the World Cup. It matches an almost obligatory social event. Politicians who socialize at matches tend to alienate fans with good taste, claims Mihaly Mozebek, because although most would enjoy spitting with the prime minister, if the glass wall protects the company of spectators and the “prime minister’s baggage”. It has not been uploaded.

Zoltan Kovacs: Turkish scholar in Hungary

According to what was reported by the press. Tamas ban A Hungarian citizen waved with both hands to the Turkish president on an open street in Budapest, and the president’s guards threw him to the ground, hit him on the back, and kneed him in the kidney. TEK officers present at the scene rescued the political activist. Tamas Latman He is an international lawyer from right to leftHe said in his opinion Erdogan He was not in danger, so no action was warranted.

I wonder why Tamas Pan did not receive any kind of satisfaction? The police tried to support the negative decision by saying that President Erdogan’s men “carried out important tasks related to personal protection” and, based on the relevant rules, they were obliged to take action in the event of atrocities against a protected person. “It may be implemented immediately, if appropriate, with the necessary violation of the personal rights of the citizen subject to the action,” they wrote.

One would think that it would be good for the Turkish president to have the protection of his bodyguards (although proportionality is a prerequisite everywhere), while the Hungarian citizen should be protected under the domestic legal system. If the Turkish president’s bodyguards are expected to beat him over an insult in the street, then perhaps Erdogan should not be allowed out into the street, or if such a spectacle is important in such dictatorial circles, then endure the insults: I am inclined to what Tamas said and Latman also says that The president was not in danger. These dictator visits are always a problem anyway. At that time in 2012, when the Chinese Vice Premier paid a goodwill visit to the Fidesz government, the Orbán family detained two people who were going to protest the restriction of freedom of expression for Tibetans: the people of Budapest. The police headquarters easily approved them and took them inside. Four years later, the police apologized in a brief statement, and a court ruling obliged them to do so because they had illegally restricted their freedoms in 2012. Who remembers this anymore?