At its July 9 meeting the Fidesz presidency discussed options for a new election system,although no decision has been reached on key issues.

The infighting among the Socialists has little actual political substance but that does not mean little is at stake. What we are witnessing is a brute battle for power.

On May 24, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán unexpectedly, although not without preliminaries, announced: the government acquired the 21.2% stake of Russia’s Surgutneftegaz in MOL for EUR 1.88 billion.

Almost three million people receive a pension or pension-type allowance. Of those almost one and a half million are below retirement age and claim an allowance based on various legal categories.

Psychological & political ‘benefit’ of conspiracy theories

The debate on the social integration of the Muslim minority totalling 5 to 8 per cent of the population has risen to the highest political level in the large receiving countries in Europe.

Given the political back-story, it should come as no surprise that the Chief Public Prosecution Service has requested that parliament lift former prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány’s immunity.

Background of recent events in Gyöngyöspata – an In-Depth analysis by Political Capital.

The constitutional set-up did not become socially consolidated following the 1989-90 change of regime.

The new constitution in Hungary is not anti-democratic; however, it does harm to the conditions of Hungary’s medium- and long-term political stability.

A Political Capital Institute által szervezett és a Közép-európai Egyetemen (CEU) tartott, „Összeesküvés-elméletek és antiszemitizmus” című konferencián elhangzott előadás szerkesztett és aktualizált változata.

The Hungarian government faces its toughest challenge with chilling ethnic tensions in the countryside.