Viktor Orban Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 22, 2023

At the Dec. 14-15 summit of European Union (EU) leaders, Hungary’s soft Euroscepticism took center stage when Prime Minister Viktor Orbán refused to vote in favor of opening accession negotiations with Ukraine. In addition, he blocked the EU from giving…

by | Sep 19, 2023

The current Western worldview has slowly relapsed back to the cozy “rules-based international order” shared by the intelligentsia of the Great Powers before 1914. According to that perspective, diplomacy was too sophisticated, the global economy too interwoven, technology too advanced,…

by | Aug 14, 2023

Based on its last experience approving a new NATO member, it is no wonder that so many in Hungary’s conservative government have been wary about doing so again. Just a little over a week after Hungary gave the green light…

by | May 2, 2023

Pope Francis has returned from touring Hungary, a bastion of European conservatism, where his mixed messaging is seemingly at odds with national sentiment. At a Mass celebrated Sunday in Budapest, His Holiness called on the Hungarian government — led by…

by | Apr 29, 2023

Pope Francis made the short trip from Vatican City to Budapest on Friday, April 28, much to the consternation of the New York Times. Their narrative is simple: By scheduling a papal visit, the Vatican has unwittingly played into the…

by | Nov 19, 2022

Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone. — Miklós Bánffy, Twenty-Five Years (1945) It is May 26, 2006, and the Hungarian Socialist Party is holding its annual congress in the bucolic lakeside village of Balatonőszöd. The attendees…

by | Feb 17, 2022

I’m writing from Budapest, the beautiful, Danube-bestriding Hungarian capital. Hungary, though a faraway land and modest in both size and population, has played an outsize role in the American conservative conscience for the past half-decade or so. After just a…

by | Jan 31, 2022

Until this past fortnight, I had no idea how many American Spectator readers were emotionally attached to Hungary. I’ve heard from people who live there and people who want to live there and people who think that everybody should live…

by | Sep 2, 2021

Ideologues at both political extremes, like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, on the left and Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the right, have recently pointed to pet foreign countries as exemplars of what America should strive to be. Yet Sanders…

by | Aug 14, 2021

The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology. The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known…

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