Hungarian journalist. Former Brussels correspondent. News junkie. Lives in Leuven. Also @eublogo.bsky.social
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Our Group is happy and proud to nominate the Budapest Pride for this year's #SakharovPrizeđłïžâđ
The people who have managed to organise Budapest Pride year after year, despite threats and bullying by the Orban Government, deserve the EU highest human rights award đ
đąđąđąWant a bad day for OrbĂĄn? Sign the ECI below to ban conversion therapy in Europe! We need 12,000 signatures by midnight tonight to get the Hungarian quota! Can we find 12,000 LGBTI-friendly Hungarians by then?đȘ
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đąđąđąSzeretnĂ©d, ha OrbĂĄnnak lenne egy rossz napja? Ărd alĂĄ az alĂĄbbi eurĂłpai kezdemĂ©nyezĂ©st, hogy betiltsĂĄk a konverziĂłs terĂĄpiĂĄt EurĂłpĂĄban! Ma Ă©jfĂ©lig 12.000 alĂĄĂrĂĄsra van szĂŒksĂ©gĂŒnk, hogy meglegyen a magyar kvĂłta! TalĂĄlunk 12.000 LMBTI-barĂĄt magyart?
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Brussels based journalists stand in full solidarity with the staff of @RFERL đ
To the staff of RFE/RL, both past and present, we extend our deepest gratitude and steadfast support. Your work has had a profound impact, and your voices must not be silenced.
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It is a sad day for press freedom in Europe and elsewhere. I know many excellent colleagues, Hungarian and foreign, who work at @RFERL and from whom I have learned a lot. â
I thought your problem with the @EU_Commission was that it overreaches, not that it does so too slowly đ
â° 7 years ago @EU_Commission promised to abolish the seasonal clock changes
âïž 3 years ago it promised to arm #EU countries
đ 6 months ago adopted the Budapest Declaration on #competitiveness that could save the economy.
đ¶ Today, @vonderleyen promised 800 billion euros to support the #defenseindustry.
đđ» Good luck!
Katalin Halmai retweeted
API-IPA @apibrussels expresses solidarity with the White House Correspondents' Association over the Trump administration's actions to limit access to White House press briefings and pools, that threatens the independence of a free press in the US. More at api-ipa.org
The Hungarian "patriots" are delighted that Europe could be left out of the negotiations to end the war, but could be charged with all the costs of the pace building. True patriots!
âïžImportant note: Hungarian "patriots" live in Europe.
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.@politico has never received any government funding, it claims. USAID subscribed to its services b/c they wanted information. As you & the entire govât apparatus subscribe to @MagyarNemzetEN. But itâs not because you want to be well informed. For that reason you read Politicođ
The rabbit is out of the hat! We had to endure for years that the ultra-progressive, self-proclaimed human rights champions of the mainstream media demonized Patriotic political forces for years. They did it because they were paid to do so by USAID and the previous, left-wing US administration. I agree with President @realDonaldTrump : this is too big and too dirty to hide from.
I'm not closing my account on X yet but post only on Bluesky. You can find and follow me there as @eublogo.bluesky.social!
You know that what you write here is not true. The experts are not censoring free speech, they are checking whether the owner of X is manipulating the algorithm to boost the conversation. Just as I keep bumping into posts by people of far-right without even wondering about them
"EU experts" checking whether speech violates EU law. Are we supposed to find this normal? National Constitutions in the EU have solid protection for free speech, sometimes even requiring trial by jury. The DSA may therefore violate these arrangements.
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This guy is expected to be the next US Ambassador in Hungary, according to pro-Fidesz daily @MagyarNemzetEN
President Biden's Treasury Department has just sanctioned a senior member of Prime Minister @PM_ViktorOrban's cabinet, Antal Rogan, just two weeks before President Trump's inauguration. This is absurd and 100% politically motivated! I wouldn't be surprised if @USAmbHungary is behind this.
When people wonder why America isn't respected on the world stage anymore it's because of actions like this. Why does the United States of America meddle into the domestic affairs of Hungary, over and over again while we have so much political corruption ourselves from Democrats?
America must stop meddling into the domestic affairs of our allies around the world and in particular, in Hungary. This meddling will come to a full stop on January 20, 2025!
One of the best Hungarian journalists I have ever known! And I've been in the game for a long time đ He and his colleagues deserve all the support they get!
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Did the Poles grant asylum to a Hungarian opposition politician accused of corruption? No? Then that must be why we did it âïž
Btw: former MP of liberal Momentum party could have easily applied for asylum anywhere in the EU đ xitter.cf/danielhegedus82/statusâŠ
đ This is how they do it: âPoland says Hungarian envoy not welcome at event at start of EU presidencyâ
đ This is how we did it: attended w/ @SebastianKeciek an inter-university conference with Hungarian and Polish students hosted by @PLInst_Budapest
âKeeping the restrictions would, in hindsight, have made some differenceâ.â.â. to the 2016 referendum result; whether enough to swing it, is impossible to say,â Jack Straw said.
Cabinet warned Blair against free movement of new EU citizens from Poland on.ft.com/3VZq4y0
đThis year Christmas coincides with Hanukkah. That holiday, too, celebrates light in darkness. Rabbi Hugo Gryn has told of how his father lit a secret menorah candle in the barracks of Auschwitz, made out of metal scraps and using secreted butter for the oil. 2/1
Berated by his son for wasting precious food that might otherwise prolong life, Grynâs father replied that a person can live for a while without food â but not a single day without hope. @FT 2/2
đFarewell to the rule of law. My last article, published today in @nepszava. For the first time, EP rapporteurs @ruitavares @JudithSargentin & @GDelbosCorfield talk together about what has happened to them, their reports and Hungary in the past few years
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