András Tóth-Czifra
@minczifra.bsky.social
Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, Bear Market Brief contributor. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism and its limits. Posts reflect my own views.
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What I never get is the fascination with Hungary ostensibly being some Christian-conservative success story, hard on immigration, with improving fertility. This is so far from the actual truth, only really gullible/uninformed people and grifters would believe it. Oh wait.
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Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org
The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has als...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What I never get is the fascination with Hungary ostensibly being some Christian-conservative success story, hard on immigration, with improving fertility. This is so far from the actual truth, only really gullible/uninformed people and grifters would believe it. Oh wait.
vsquare.org/inside-vikto...
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Turns out, Orban wasn't telling the truth: the exemption he got is for a year. But this is all he needs - elections take place in April. It's still a win for him.
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Turns out, Orban wasn't telling the truth: the exemption he got is for a year. But this is all he needs - elections take place in April. It's still a win for him.
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Turns out, Orban wasn't telling the truth: the exemption he got is for a year. But this is all he needs - elections take place in April. It's still a win for him.
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Turns out, Orban wasn't telling the truth: the exemption he got is for a year. But this is all he needs - elections take place in April. It's still a win for him.
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But much will depend on how else Trump plans to support him and if this is enough to kickstart the economy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Waldemar Zurek also sounds like the kind of name that Bob Mortimer would make up for one of his stories.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Waldemar Zurek also sounds like the kind of name that Bob Mortimer would make up for one of his stories.
Orban's press conference is a sight to behold, by the way: an assortment of media workers and straight-up propagandists, all from a media network maintained and coordinated by his party and government, no independent media in the room, and they cosplay a WH-style press briefing with a straight face.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Orban's press conference is a sight to behold, by the way: an assortment of media workers and straight-up propagandists, all from a media network maintained and coordinated by his party and government, no independent media in the room, and they cosplay a WH-style press briefing with a straight face.
We haven't seen any commentary from the US side, however.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We haven't seen any commentary from the US side, however.
Orban's press conference is a sight to behold, by the way: an assortment of media workers and straight-up propagandists, all from a media network maintained and coordinated by his party and government, no independent media in the room, and they cosplay a WH-style press briefing with a straight face.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Orban's press conference is a sight to behold, by the way: an assortment of media workers and straight-up propagandists, all from a media network maintained and coordinated by his party and government, no independent media in the room, and they cosplay a WH-style press briefing with a straight face.
They also had the obligatory laugh at Ukraine's expense, and we're barely 10 minutes in. I only need two more wildly false claims for my bingo card.
On a side note: Orban's face when Trump gushed about his great relationship with Romania was a sight you only appreciate fully if you know the region
On a side note: Orban's face when Trump gushed about his great relationship with Romania was a sight you only appreciate fully if you know the region
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They also had the obligatory laugh at Ukraine's expense, and we're barely 10 minutes in. I only need two more wildly false claims for my bingo card.
On a side note: Orban's face when Trump gushed about his great relationship with Romania was a sight you only appreciate fully if you know the region
On a side note: Orban's face when Trump gushed about his great relationship with Romania was a sight you only appreciate fully if you know the region
On a side note, Torbjörn Törnqvist might just be the most Scandinavian name imaginable.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On a side note, Torbjörn Törnqvist might just be the most Scandinavian name imaginable.
Especially with, y'know, ZE-lensky
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Especially with, y'know, ZE-lensky
Aberbaijan, is it
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Aberbaijan, is it
Anything to get daddy's attention
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Anything to get daddy's attention