Centre for Fair Political Analysis

13/10/2025

The EU possesses one of the most attractive markets in the world. If it succeeds in reducing the dependencies that have severely constrained its room for manoeuvre — in areas such as defence, energy, and trade — a new playing field will open up, that may allow it to place a few pieces back on the global chessboard. Zoltán Novák's analysis. Link in comments.

25/08/2025

While we know a lot about the grand strategy of the Hungarian government, we barely know the grand strategy of the West, which is, in short: the revision of the strategy followed in 1956. Ervin Csizmadia's analysis. Link in comments.

27/06/2025

What does the election of Donald Trump mean for Viktor Orbán’s politics? Speech analysis on how the Prime Minister’s thoughts on liberal democracy changed. Link in comments.

08/05/2025

It is not enough to examine Hungarian politics after the regime change from the point of view of democratic backsliding, it is necessary to extend the study to the lack of political and social cohesion as well. This has a strong explanatory power for the turn that occurred in Hungary after 2010. Ervin Csizmadia’s analysis. Link in comments.

21/03/2025

Will Hungary break free of its current political trajectory, or will history repeat itself? Róbert Kiss explores overlooked aspects of the opposition narrative. Link in comments.

21/03/2025

Hungarian politics has been dominated by Fidesz for 15 years. Gergely Rajnai’s analysis explains why the challenge of the emerging Tisza Party might push Hungary towards a two-party system. Link in comments.

17/02/2025

It is a common misconception that racism and xenophobia are to blame for the rise of populism in Europe, Julia Lakatos’s analysis points to a double representation gap as an alternative explanation. Link in comments.

07/02/2025

Hungary does not have a tradition of early elections. The demand for them is nevertheless high. Zoltán Novák’s analysis on why this topic dominated public discourse at the beginning of the year. Link in the comments.

07/10/2024

The strategy of economic neutrality

Hungary’s Prime Minister feels that the prospects of European autonomy are bleak, therefore the competitiveness of the Hungarian economy can only be improved through an independent policy. According to Viktor Orbán, this is the path of neutrality. Zoltán Novák’s analysis. Link in the comments.

30/09/2024

Every dominant party falls from power, the question is when and how? Ervin Csizmadia wrote about the power of learning from the opponent. Link in comments.

09/12/2022

The fact that the Hungarian opposition was not able to win elections for the past twelve years makes it unique within East-Central Europe. But why is the opposition so weak, and what are its possibilities for the future? Ervin Csizmadia’s analysis. https://meltanyossag.hu/en/the-transformation-of-the-hungarian-opposition/

26/08/2022

Between Two Worlds

Talking to Al Jazeera, Gergely Rajnai described the foreign policy of Viktor Orbán as attempting to bridge the gap between East and West, but noted that the war in Ukraine makes this approach less and less tenable.

https://meltanyossag.hu/en/between-two-worlds/

Millions of people in Hungary could be forced to heat their homes with firewood this winter.Gas prices have soared because of the war in Ukraine.The governme...