Hungary’s Parliament expands list of recognized churches, but rejects many applicants:
Canada considers visas for Hungary due to influx of Romani immigrants:
http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_3191
Palmer-Haraszti-Gati opinion piece in the Washington Post: “There are serious reasons for bringing back RFE’s Hungarian broadcasts”
Video of Kim Lane Scheppele’s lecture “Unconstitutional Constitution”, delivered on January 31, 2012 at Budapest’s Central European University about the legality of the newly-enacted Hungarian constitution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_swtZNgjTc&
Febr. 22: European Commission recommends suspension of Hungary’s cohesion funds
BBB: EU to punish Hungary over debts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17127792
NYT: E.U. Threatens to Suspend Subsidies to Hungary
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/world/europe/eu-threatens-to-suspend-subsidies-to-hungary.html
Financial Times: Hungary hits at Brussels funds threat
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a1e08d5c-5d71-11e1-8bb6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1nBDDsX29
Irish Times: Hungary feels wrath of Rehn as new economic order takes hold
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0223/1224312243430.html
Brussels Swats Its Buda-‘Pest’
http://blogs.news.sky.com/eurovision/Post:bf782a13-fb38-4455-bed8-d9dab24ebabb
Hungary gov’t queries legality of EU fund freeze
http://www.realdeal.hu/20120222/hungary-gov’t-queries-legality-of-eu-fund-freeze/
EU readies economic sanctions against Hungary
http://www.euractiv.com/euro-finance/eu-readies-economic-sanctions-hungary-news-510987
EP vs. Fidesz-Hungary: Not Lost in Translation (Summary of EP discussions of Bayer’s show on Echo TV)
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2012/2/18/85124/2698
Hungary responds to EU infringement procedure
http://euobserver.com/9/115300
Government Lets Movement Celebrate Hungary Revolution Anniversary
Hungary Sees Political Witch Hunt In European Parliament Resolution
Hungarian film shines light on Roma persecution
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/us-berlinale-roma-idUSTRE81F1IH20120216
EU action over Hungary’s constitution – The Irish Times – Fri, Feb 17, 2012:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0217/1224311917901.html
European Parliament resolution: Hungary should respect the EU’s basic values, say MEPs
UN experts speak out against Hungarian law criminalizing homelessness
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41246&Cr=Rapporteur&Cr1
“The bullies of Budapest” – more on the Geréb case; The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/02/hungarian-home-births
The Strasbourger – Hungarian Journalist Loses It:
http://thestrasbourger.eu/article/Hungarian-Journalist-Loses-It/187
Febr. 13: Hungarian Parliament is back in session. Financial Times blog: “Hungary: crunch time with the EU/IMF” http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/02/13/hungary-crunch-time-with-the-euimf
The Guardian: Imre Kertész’s Hungary: a country on the wrong side of history (excerpts of the interview with Le Monde):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/feb/12/imre-kertesz-hungary-wrong-side-history
Adam Fisher’s open letter on racism in Hungary, addressed to members of the European Peoples Party in the European Parliament:
http://artistsagainstracism.eu/?p=336
The Irish Independent: Karen Coleman: Sinister path Hungary is taking should worry us all
Febr. 10: Hungarian home birth advocate Ágnes Geréb is sentenced to two years in jail and banned from her profession for ten years:
http://www.budapest-moms.com/2012/02/hungarian-midwife-agnes-gereb-receives-2-years-in-prison/
Hunger March wins PR battle
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2012/2/9/82113/51421
Hungary Will Extend Foreign-Currency Loan Plan, Index Reports:
Febr. 9: The European Parliament holds a hearing on the situation on civil rights and media freedoms in Hungary:
The BBC’s summary and full recording of the hearing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/europe/newsid_9693000/9693944.stm
“EU Commissioner Kroes criticizes Hungarian laws as affecting democracy, media independence” – AP http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-commissioner-kroes-criticizes-hungarian-media-laws-saying-they-promote-self-censorship/2012/02/09/gIQAgomD1Q_story.html
Open dispute between deputy prime minister Navracsics and Neelie Kroes during the hearing: http://euobserver.com/9/115209
EU Commissioner Kroes’ prepared remarks: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH%2F12%2F80&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Details of the mandates the European Union requires of the Hungarian government: http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/46571
Hungary’s churches in no-man’s land – The Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/798c2f14-481d-11e1-b1b4-00144feabdc0.html
Febr. 7: Orbán’s “state of the country” speech:
Hungary PM Sees Tough Future Ahead, Blames Heritage
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/02/07/hungary-pm-sees-tough-future-ahead-blames-heritage/
New York Times: Leader of Hungary Defends New Constitution
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/world/europe/viktor-orban-defends-hungarys-new-constitution.html
Presseurop: Orbán makes an exhibition of himself –
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1487771-orban-makes-exhibition-himself
What’s Wrong with Hungary? – by Francis Fukuyama:
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/fukuyama/2012/02/06/whats-wrong-with-hungary/
The Guardian: The readers’ editor on… a story of prejudice that hit a raw nerve in Hungary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/story-of-prejudice-roma-hungary
Febr. 4: Pictures taken in the area impacted by the red sludge catastrophe. Officially the cleanup of the area is complete, but against the winter background, the red dust being blown around is alarming (pictures): http://magyarinfo.blog.hu/2012/02/04/a_vorosiszap_katasztrofa_16_honapos_evfordulojan_meg_mindig_tamad_a_vorosiszap
Radical party spokesman says Jews ‘colonizing’ Hungary – The Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=256481
Young, Wired and Angry: A Revised Portrait of Hungary’s Right-Wing Extremists – SPIEGEL ONLINE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,813243,00.html
Democracy in Hungary Takes a Right Turn – Saim Saeed for the World Policy Institute:
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2012/02/03/democracy-hungary-takes-right-turn
Death of I. Csurka, Febr. 4:
New York Times obituary –http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/world/europe/istvan-csurka-hungarian-politician-dies-at-77.html
George Szirtes: http://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2012/02/istvan-csurka-1934-2012.html
Febr. 3: Hungary airline Malev stops operating, flights grounded
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/malev-stoppage-idUSL5E8D30E920120203
Hungary’s new constitution sparks controversy – Global Journalist Radio’s full episode on media freedoms and political changes in Hungary with Origo’s editor Attila Mong and Radio Free Europe’s Prague correspondent Charles Recknagel:
http://globaljournalist.org/radio/2012/01/27/
Open letter on freedom to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán:
Febr. 3: Two very different stories about Roma life in Hungary: one told after a visit to the countryside, the other from the office of a Hungarian state secretary:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-hungary-coal-poverty-idUSTRE8111MU20120202
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57370690/hungary-urges-eu-members-to-present-roma-plans/
SEEMO Says State Has Appropriated Hungary’s Media Landscape:
http://www.freemedia.at/index.php?id=288&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5993&cHash=1e17eda0c7
The Washington Post: Extremists in Hungary try to disrupt protest against rightist theater director
Hungary’s Orban seeks to wipe out communist past:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/uk-hungary-communism-idUSLNE81001C20120201
Orban Nationalism May Isolate Hungary in EU, Schwarzenberg Says:
The Contrarian Hungarian 