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Viktor Orbán: “Hungary is a serious country” where gays are patiently tolerated
First, some background to today’s post. May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Governments in Europe and North America usually release a statement on the...
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Tibor Navracsics’s political “coming out”
Tibor Navracsics, who is EU commissioner in charge of education, culture, youth and sport, doesn’t appear too often in the Hungarian media, and when he does he is asked mostly about matters relating to...
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BBC’s Nick Thorpe vs. historian Mária Schmidt
Three or four months ago BBC commissioned a survey, conducted by pollster Ipsos MORI, that showed that among the citizens of 27 countries, Hungarians are a pretty intolerant lot. Less than half of the...
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A German football club fires an intolerant Hungarian coach
In my early internet career only two political discussion groups dealt with Hungary. One was in Hungarian and the other in English. Both were organized and maintained by a couple of Hungarian Ph.D....
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