[spectre] plan orbana

[János Sugár]

Title: plan orbana


its worth to put this text in google translate:

https://www.facebook.com/100050478939975/posts/plan-orbana11-lat-temu-na-jednej-z-konferencji-pod-rzymem-organizowanej-przez-ka/514701036889190/

roman giertych, ex polish deputy prime minister wrote 2 days ago
(and it is on his yt vlog channel, and on his twitter too) about an
earlier secret agreement in which russia, poland and hungary divide
ukraine between the three.
 


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Re: [spectre] futurlab hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:futurlab hungary


dear zeljko, patrice et al,

    sorry
for the late reaction, and another sorry for the lots of urls, but the
illiberal reality produces every day something new and
depressing:

Orban's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with
homosexuality
https://kafkadesk.org/2021/06/13/orbans-dirty-little-trick-conflating-pedophilia-with-homosexuality/

Hungary Adopts Child Sex Abuse Law That Also Targets L.G.B.T.
Community
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html

and concerning the Fudan university a brave act:
the mayor of Budapest names streets at planned Chinese university
after Uyghurs, Hong Kong
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/budapest-names-streets-planned-chinese-university-after-uyghurs-hong-kong-2021-06-02/

+

Orbán: government will appoint people
with "national worldview" to lead Hungarian
universities
https://insighthungary.444.hu/2021/05/06/orban-government-will-appoint-people-with-national-worldview-to-lead-hungarian-universities

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/orban-seen-entrenching-right-wing-dominance-through-hungarian-university-reform-2021-04-26/

Hungary Transfers 11 Universities to
Foundations Led by Orban Allies. The transfer, accompanied by billions
of euros in state assets, will enable the prime minister and his
supporters to exert long-term influence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/world/europe/hungary-universities-orban.html?referringSource=articleShare

"They have essentially seized every major institution in
society"-Hungary's university takeover
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/04/30/they-have-essentially-seized-every-major-institution-in-society-hungarys-university-takeover

Orbán has begun taking steps to preserve
his power
https://telex.hu/english/2021/05/04/orban-has-begun-taking-steps-to-preserve-his-power



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[spectre] concerning .pl

[János Sugár]

Title: concerning .pl


Pupils in Polish schools will be 
taught that the European Union is an "unlawful entity", says
the education minister, Przemyslaw Czarnek. He also wants history
classes to focus more on teaching "pride" in Poland's past
rather than, than as before, "shame" about it.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/05/19/polish-schools-will-teach-that-eu-is-unlawful-entity-says-education-minister/


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[spectre] futurlab hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: futurlab hungary


Hungary's parliament passed legislation on Tuesday setting up
foundations to take over the running of universities and cultural
institutions in a move critics say extends the ideological imprint of
the ruling right-wing government.
Orban's Fidesz party, which has a two-thirds majority in
parliament, voted for the legislation on Tuesday.
His government will appoint boards of trustees to run the foundations,
which will control substantial real estate assets and benefit from
billions of euros worth of EU funds, while also having considerable
influence over universities' everyday life
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/27/europe/hungary-orban-university-reform-intl/index.html

+

The Hungarian government is planning to build a Budapest campus
of the Chinese Fudan University with Chinese contractors, financed by
a ¤1.25 billion loan from China, it emerged this month.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/hungary-to-build-budapest-campus-of-chinese-university-with-chinese-loan/


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[spectre] meanwhile in hu

[János Sugár]

Title: meanwhile in hu


Hungary's pro-government and state media reacted to last week's
storming of the United States Capitol by far-right supporters of U.S.
president Donald Trump by spinning conspiracy theories and shifting
blame to alleged antifascist provocateurs and Black Lives Matter
activists.
A January 7 video report by state-funded public television station M1
concluded that "Joe Biden's presidency brings chaos,"
despite the fact that the Democratic winner of the presidential
election will not be inaugurated until January 20.

https://insighthungary.444.hu/2021/01/14/hungarys-pro-government-media-spins-alternative-reality-in-reactions-to-storming-of-us-capitol


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[spectre] in the meantime in .hu

[János Sugár]

Title: in the meantime in .hu


Europe is George Soros' gas chamber," Szilard Demeter,
ministerial commissioner and head of the Petofi Literary Museum in
Budapest, wrote in an opinion Saturday in the pro-government Origo
media outlet. "Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural
open society, which is deadly to the European way of life."
https://apnews.com/article/budapest-george-soros-europe-hungary-europe-913b41d42319578a24d6daba50b7b0bb


Der Verband Ungarischer Jüdischer Glaubensgemeinden hat gestern
gegen die Aussagen des Leiters des Budapester
Petöfi-Literaturmuseums, Szilard Demeter, protestiert. Dieser hatte
dem US-Investor und Philanthropen George Soros vorgeworfen, Europa zu
seiner “Gaskammer" gemacht zu haben.
https://orf.at/stories/3191667/

Ungarischer Kulturfunktionär bezeichnet Europa als «Gaskammer
von Soros»
Der Funktionär Szilard Demeter steht der Regierung Viktor
Orbans nahe. Er bezeichnet sich selbst als «fanatischer
Orbanist».
https://www.nzz.ch/international/ungarischer-kulturfunktionaer-bezeichnet-europa-als-gaskammer-von-soros-ld.1589350?reduced=true


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[spectre] #freeSZFE

[János Sugár]

Title: #freeSZFE


Internet is permanently shutdown at main buildings of
prestigious Arts University in Budapest while students
protest
/.../
The current internet shutdown in the University buildings at
Tuesday evening and the lock down of Odry stage, which is used as the
main venue of forums within the campus has been ordered 
admittedly by the government appointed former military colonel
Chancellor Szarka. " I will do all I can in order to make an end
of this internal anarchy."- he said. 
Gergely Gulyás, cabinet chief of Hungarian prime minister
Viktor Orbán has stated, that the annual budget of the University of
Theatre and Film Arts will be doubled by the government, consequently
the University may plan with a 3 billion HUF budget (8.3 million
euros) next year. As a response the protesting students claim that in
the current situation which involves infringement it is unethical to
respond with financial offerings.
The demonstrating students announced a protest march for the 23rd
of October, on the same day and location as the Hungarian Revolution
of 1956, which has began as a student protest.
/.../
https://telex.hu/english/2020/10/17/internet-is-permanently-shutdown-at-main-buildings-of-prestigious-arts-university-in-budapest-while-students-protest


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[spectre] teaching republic

[János Sugár]

Title: teaching republic


Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not
only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the
university completely and started new ways of teaching with their
'experimental teaching republic'.

https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/10/08/the-institute-of-network-cultures-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-budapest-university-of-theatre-and-film-arts/


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[spectre] lehr-republik

[János Sugár]

Title: lehr-republik


https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/besetzte-theater-uni-startet-lehr-republik-3100/

https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-theater-university-students-occupy-one-more-building/


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[spectre] Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre and Film Arts

[János Sugár]

Title: Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre
and Fi


Col. Gábor Szarka, former Chief of Staff to the Minister of
Defense in the second Orbán government, was appointed chancellor of
the arts university by a board of directors recently installed by the
government.

Following his appointment, the students blocked Szarka from
entering the campus, a continuation of the month-long occupation and
blockade of the university in response to an intensifying conflict
between students/professors and the new board of directors. Students
maintained that they consider the board illegitimate, and vowed to
continue the blockade against all new leadership until their demands
for autonomy are met.

On Wednesday night, one month after occupying a campus building
on Vas Street in Budapest, students placed another building under
blockade. A student forum voted Wednesday night to occupy the film
faculty building on Szentkirályi Street after the university's
previous leadership -  including the acting rector, deputy
rector, and the heads of each of the university's faculties - joined a
student demonstration as their mandates expired following their
resignations in August. 

https://insighthungary.444.hu/2020/10/01/military-colonel-appointed-chancellor-of-budapests-university-of-theatre-and-film-arts


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[spectre] Hungary's Index journalists walk out over sacking

[János Sugár]

Index is the last of Hungary's key independent media and editor in 
chief Szabolcs Dull was fired on Tuesday. Over the past decade, 
supporters of nationalist and conservative Prime Minister Viktor 
Orban have gradually taken control of Hungary's independent media. 
Hungary is ranked 89th out of 180 countries on the Reporters without 
Borders World Press Freedom Index.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53531948

Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
https://index.hu/english

Editor-in-chief fired at Hungary's leading independent news site
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/22/editor-in-chief-fired-hungary-leading-independent-news-site-szabolcs-dull-index

Editor in chief of influential Hungarian news site Index.hu ousted
Szabolcs Dull warned that website's independence at risk of political 
pressure from Orban's government

https://www.ft.com/content/7832088e-7286-4d3f-b745-2015cd5c7046

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/pressefreiheit-in-ungarn-index-auf-viktor-orbans-index-a-1151361f-eb6d-4ec2-905c-f92c48dc7a44
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[spectre] Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition

[János Sugár]

Title: Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish
Opposition


BRUSSELS - Authoritarian-minded leaders around the world have
used the coronavirus emergency to consolidate power. In Europe, the
governments of Poland and Hungary have done that and more. They have
managed to turn the crisis into a windfall and punish their political
opponents, too.
In a hasty effort to show that it was doing something to help during
the virus crisis, the European Union repurposed 37 billion euros -
about $40 billion - in structural aid funds, designed to help newer
and poorer members, for virus aid. The result: Hungary and Poland each
got considerably more money than virus-ravaged Italy or Spain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/europe/poland-hungary-coronavirus.html


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[spectre] Coronavirus kills its first democracy

[János Sugár]

Title: Coronavirus kills its first
democracy


You could say that Hungary was already "immunocompromised." A
decade under the nation's illiberal nationalist prime minister,
Viktor Orban, has corroded the state's checks and balances, cowed
the judiciary, enfeebled civil society and the free press, and
reconfigured electoral politics to the advantage of Orban's ruling
Fidesz party. So, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Budapest's
ailing democracy proved all too vulnerable.
On Monday, Hungary's parliament passed a controversial bill that
gave Orban sweeping emergency powers for an indefinite period of time.
Parliament is closed, future elections were called off, existing laws
can be suspended and the prime minister is now entitled to rule by
decree. Opposition lawmakers had tried to set a time limit on the
legislation but failed. Orban's commanding two-thirds parliamentary
majority made his new powers a fait accompli.
/.../
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/31/coronavirus-kills-its-first-democracy/
+
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/the-guardian-view-on-hungarys-coronavirus-law-orbans-power-grab
.de
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/news-ungarn-coronavirus-usa-markus-soeder-olaf-scholz-a-51098517-286e-447e-8a7e-2761270bebdf


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[spectre] no go topics in state media

[János Sugár]

Hungarian state media bosses told staff they need 
permission to report on Greta Thunberg and EU 
politics, and banned coverage of reports from 
leading human rights organizations, according to 
internal emails obtained by POLITICO.
Editors working in state media are provided with 
lists of sensitive topics, and any coverage 
related to the issues mentioned requires staff to 
send draft content for approval from higher up, 
the internal correspondence shows. In the case of 
Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, 
journalists were told they need permission before 
they even start writing, according to one email.
Hungary is currently subject to the EU's Article 
7 censure procedure, triggered when the bloc's 
fundamental values are considered at risk in a 
member country. The European Parliament launched 
the procedure in 2018, citing media freedom as 
one of many issues that gave cause for alarm. 
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government has 
dismissed such concerns.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungarian-state-media-not-free-to-report-on-greta-thunberg-human-rights/
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[spectre] controlling culture

[János Sugár]

"we must embed the political system in a cultural era"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/the-guardian-view-on-viktor-orban-laws-controlling-culture

bonus:

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/lgbtq-in-ungarn-die-fuenf-buchstaben-des-weltuntergangs-a-1300370.html
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https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/eu-anhoerung-antisemitismus-vorwuerfe-gegen-ungarns-regierungssprecher-a-1300658.html

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[spectre] Hungarian Academy of Sciences stripped of its research network

[János Sugár]

Despite demonstrations and loud protests, today, leader of the 
Ministry for Innovation and Technology, presented the bill to the 
National Assembly, which would completely reshape the Hungarian 
Academy of Sciences (MTA) by stripping it of its assets and allow 
governmental control over the 200 year old institution.


The Hungarian Government's intention to bring about changes in the 
way Hungarian scientific life is funded first manifested itself last 
June when the 2019 budget proposal intended to place the Ministry of 
Innovation and Technology in charge of around two-thirds of the 
Academy's funding. The scientific community strongly objected to this 
proposal, many said that it would endanger academic freedom in 
Hungary. Following several bouts of negotiations and several 
alternative proposals put forth by the MTA, the mostly one-sided 
dispute that lasted almost a year ended at the beginning of June.

https://index.hu/english/2019/07/02/hungarian_academy_of_sciences_research_network_taken_away_academic_freedom_ministry_of_innovation_and_technology/

Hungarian scientists mull legal action over government controls
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-scientists/hungarian-scientists-mull-legal-action-over-government-controls-idUSKCN1TD1AN

Government to Impose Total Control Over the Science Academy
https://hungarytoday.hu/government-to-impose-total-control-over-the-science-academy/
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[spectre] Imre Nagy Memorial Removed

[János Sugár]

The memorial of Imre Nagy, Hungary's prime minister during the 1956 
revolution, was removed from Martyrs' Square near Parliament in the 
early hours of82. Dec. Friday morning. The Imre Nagy memorial will be 
replaced by a reconstructed post-WWI monument dedicated to the 
martyrs of the communist Red Terror in 1919.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/europe/hungary-statue-nagy.html


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[spectre] "slave labour" law in Hungary

[János Sugár]

Protests have broken out in Hungary after the country's parliament 
passed new labour laws, which have been labelled "slave labour" by 
opponents.


New rules mean companies can demand up to 400 hours of overtime a 
year and delay payment for it for three years.
Police used tear gas against crowds on the steps of the parliament 
building on Wednesday night as crowds gathered.


They were also angry over a second vote to create a new system of 
administrative courts controlled by the minister of justice, which 
critics fear will not be independent.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46551904?fbclid=IwAR15XwDQZY1DDtig3gWufWA6JACBuOv_OHjA-CKuNU0PSQNlSSqHM6nerGc

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/14/magyar-kangaroo-courts.html
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[spectre] (no subject)

[János Sugár]

T

[spectre] (no subject)

[János Sugár]

[spectre] Frida and Billy in Hungary

[János Sugár]

A pro-government newspaper has criticized a hugely popular exhibition 
of her work at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest for 
"promoting communism".


In a July 14 article entitled "This is the way communism is promoted 
using state money", the Kahlo exhibition was listed in the right-wing 
newspaper Magyar Idok along with some other galleries, artists and 
exhibitions.


"You won't believe it but Trotsky has emerged in Budapest again, this 
time from Frida Kahlo's bed," the newspaper wrote, referring to her 
affair with Leon Trotsky, a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of 
power in Russia, during his later exile in Mexico. Trotsky was 
assassinated in 1940.


In June, Magyar Idok also published an article by a guest commentator 
who accused the musical Billy Elliot in the Hungarian State Opera of 
spreading homosexual propaganda among its young audience. Billy 
Elliot has been on the program for two years, with over 100,000 
viewers so far.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-culture/communist-frida-kahlo-swept-up-in-debate-on-cultural-change-in-hungary-idUSKBN1KT174
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[spectre] Ungarisches TV: Bühne für AfD-Politiker

[János Sugár]

(sorry for german only)
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/zapp/medienpolitik/Ungarisches-TV-AfD-Politiker-als-besorgter-Buerger,afd1724.html
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[spectre] banning gender studies in Hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: banning gender studies in
Hungary


BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will stop financing
gender studies university courses, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's
chief of staff said on Tuesday, marking one of the first concrete
steps in a cultural shift signaled last month.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-government-education/hungary-to-stop-financing-gender-studies-courses-pm-aide-idUSKBN1KZ1M0

The Orbán regime introduced legislation to shut down accredited
gender studies programs offered by universities in Hungary. Academics
now have 24 hours to respond to the government's plan. The ban will
primarily impact students at Eötvös Loránd University in
Budapest (ELTE)-the only institution in Hungary, other than Central
European University, to offer gender studies at the graduate level,
and the only one to provide this program in Hungarian.
http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/08/10/gender-studies-programs-to-be-banned-in-hungary/

+

An article published by Hungarian pro-government magazine
Figyelo, entitled, "Immigration, homosexual rights and gender
science - these topics occupy the researchers of the Academy",
claims that the research topics of the Centre for Social Sciences of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are politically suspicious, and that
the government should have a "greater insight" into the
Academy's work.
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/orban-allies-target-hungarian-social-scientists-battle-academy-sciences

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/hungary-should-withdraw-law-targeting-autonomy-academy-sciences-say-european-academies

Diminishing autonomy of Hungarian science academy worries
scientists
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/diminishing-autonomy-of-hungarian-science-academy-worries-scientists/3009327.article


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[spectre] We stand with the Archive. Do you?

[János Sugár]

"The man, who wants to act, has not really huge 
opportunity for action. But there is no moment, 
when one could not do something." (György Lukács)


On 24 May 2018 the last research associate of the 
Georg Lukács Archives of the Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences was banned from the Archives after 
twenty-eight years of employment. Despite local 
and international protest, the Academy, with the 
assistance of its own library, closed the 
archives of the only world-renowned Hungarian 
philosopher, which has existed since 1972. The 
Archives ceased to exist as a resource for 
international researchers, by replacing the locks 
on its doors.


The Lukács Archives International Foundation 
(LANA) is working to preserve the philosopher's 
legacy. We who have had the opportunity to work 
at the Archive, and/or who have enjoyed the 
support and help of the Archive in our research, 
and for whom access to the Archive's holdings is 
essential to our future work, stand with them.


We therefore call on the Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences, and its library to reverse this 
decision, which will have a destructive impact on 
our work, and on the work of countless other 
researchers in many academic disciplines.


Please share this petition with as many pertinent 
organizations and/or concerned individuals as 
possible, as this invaluable archive is under 
threat of total closure, and this may be our last 
chance to save it.


To add your name to the petition, send an e-mail 
with your name and institutional affiliation to

muvesz.felelos.szolida...@gmail.com.

We keep updating the list of signatories.


mereiszakkoli.wordpress.com

Wir sind mit dem Archiv. Und ihr?

“Die Möglichkeiten der Menschen, die etwas 
bewirken wollen sind natürlich nicht besonders 
groß. Es gibt allerdings keine Zeit, in der man 
irgendetwas nicht tun könnte." (Georg Lukács)


Am 24. Mai wurde die letzte Mitarbeiterin des 
Georg-Lukács-Archivs in Budapest von ihrer Stelle 
entlassen. Sie arbeitete seit 40 Jahren im Archiv 
des einzigen weltberühmten ungarischen 
Philosophen. Nach der vorherigen Einstellung der 
Forschungsarbeiten und dem Abtransport der 
Manuskripte hat die Ungarische Akademie der 
Wissenschaften (MTA) mit dieser Entscheidung das 
1972 eröffnete Archiv endgültig geschlossen. Das 
Archiv, das ehemals international großes Ansehen 
und Interesse genossen hat existiert nicht mehr.


Die für die Rettung des Archivs gegründete 
Internationale Lukács-Archiv-Stiftung (LANA) 
kämpft weiterhin für den Zusammenhalt des 
Nachlasses - allerdings mit der geringsten Chance 
auf Erfolg. Wir, die die Gelegenheit hatten, im 
Georg-Lukács-Archiv arbeiten zu dürfen und/oder 
während unserer Forschungsarbeit durch das Archiv 
unterstützt wurden und für die der Zugang zu den 
im Archiv bewahrten handschriftlichen Materialien 
auch in Zukunft eine unumgängliche Bedingung 
ihrer Arbeit ist oder die, die die Arbeit der mit 
dem Archiv in Verbindung stehenden Forscher und 
Wissenschaftler hochschätzen, stehen hinter ihnen.


Daher bitten wir die Verantwortlichen der MTA und 
die Bibliothek der MTA erneut, im Interesse der 
Forschung die Entscheidung aufheben zu lassen.


Leite diese Nachricht an allen Privatpersonen 
und/oder Organisationen weiter, damit wir eine 
letzte Chance zum Protest haben können, da das 
Archiv bereits an der Grenze der völligen 
Auflösung steht.


Ihr könnt die Petition unterschreiben und weitere Nachrichten durch
muvesz.felelos.szolida...@gmail.com erhalten.

Die Liste der Unterzeichner wird ständig aktualisiert.

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Re: [spectre] on Hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:on Hungary


Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant
'atmosphere of fear'
Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out
pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán's election victory
this week
/.../
The journalists believe the anti-migrant messages often come
directly from the government. People who work on stories directly
involving Orbán receive a list of keywords to use. "Sometimes the
editor will come into the office on the phone and dictate a whole
story to us, word for word. We do not know who is on the other end of
the phone," said one.
/.../
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/13/hungary-journalists-state-tv-network-migrants-viktor-orban-government


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[spectre] Cas Mudde on Hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: Cas Mudde on Hungary


original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/10/orban-election-hungary-europe-future-past

Orbán's Hungary is not the future of
Europe: it represents a dying past

Cas Mudde

The declining birthrate and brain drain
are likely to continue, as a fearful Hungary turns in on itself ever
further

On Sunday Hungarians went to the polls to
elect a new parliament. At stake was the fate of the prime minister,
Viktor Orbán, whom international media love to describe in dramatic,
but ultimately euphemistic, terms such as "Europe's bad boy" or
"Europe's flame thrower". Based on the near-final results, Orbán's
Fidesz-KDNP "coalition" won a staggering 48.9% of the vote, up by
4%, and a new constitutional majority of 134 seats.

They were followed, at a considerable distance, by the Movement for a
Better Hungary (Jobbik), the notorious far-right party that had
campaigned on a relatively moderate anti-Fidesz-corruption platform,
with 19.3% and 25 seats - a loss of almost 1%, but a gain of two
seats. The centrist coalition vote was split over three parties this
time.

The Hungarian Socialist party-Dialogue for Hungary (MSZP) coalition
got 12.25% and 20 seats, whereas the Democratic Coalition (DK) got
5.54% and nine seats. In 2014, the two had contested together under
the misnomer "Unity" and had achieved almost 8% and nine seats
more. The nominally Green "Politics Can Be Different" (LMP),
finally, got 6.9% of the vote and eight seats, a gain of 1.6% and
three seats.

Orbán has been in power for eight straight years, during which he
first transformed Hungary from a troubled liberal democracy into an
illiberal kleptocracy, before taking on the European status quo, and
in particular German chancellor Angela Merkel, on a broad variety of
issues, but most notably immigration policies.

He regained power in 2010 with a relatively moderate conservative
agenda centered on a vague program of change. He used his two-thirds
majority to change the constitution, appoint cronies to each and every
new and old political institution, and lay the groundwork for a
long-term reign. His electoral engineering paid off in 2014, when his
Fidesz-KDNP "coalition" maintained its constitutional majority on
the basis of the votes of "Hungarians abroad" - Hungarian speakers
in bordering countries, whom Orbán had offered Hungarian
citizenship, for which they rewarded him by voting almost unanimously
for Fidesz-KDNP.

Since then Orbán has further consolidated his "illiberal state"
at home, while becoming the most influential voice of the radical
right in Europe abroad. Putting traditional radical right leaders like
Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders in his shadow - both openly support
him and Orbán has met several radical right leaders, including
Wilders, who has a Hungarian wife - Orbán has adopted all the
far-right conspiracy theories and has build his campaign and regime on
them.

Over the past years the Orbán government has paid tens of millions
of dollars for nativist campaigns against immigrants, including a
failed referendum, as well as the European Union. Barring a few
remaining outlets, the Hungarian media has been made into a propaganda
machine of the regime, bombarding the citizens with terrifying stories
about (Muslim) immigrants, while staying silent on the massive
corruption scandals surrounding the Orbán kleptocracy.

Polls had consistently shown that this was successful and they turned
out to have been largely accurate. Many in the opposition had believed
that if turnout was high, Fidesz would be vulnerable, and some
delusional opposition leaders even openly spoke of forming a
government. But while turnout was indeed high across the country, the
highest in this century, it was up both in the pro-government
countryside and in the pro-opposition capital. The net effect seems to
have been marginal or possibly even strengthening Fidesz.

Hungary has an electoral system with the highest disproportionality in
terms of translating votes into seats of all the EU member states - a
well-engineered outcome from the previous election reform, but there
is no denying that Orbán is by far the most popular politician in
the country. Similarly, while the OSCE published a "damning verdict"
on the elections, which might have been "free" but were certainly
not "fair", the opposition was mainly defeated by its own
incompetence. The price that they, and their supporters, will continue
to pay for this could become even higher.

In his last campaign speech, Orbán explained to his supporters what
was at stake: "For us Hungary comes first; for them George Soros and
the power he offers comes first. Because for power and money they are
capable of anything." In a previous Facebook post, he had already
warned that "we must stop any organization that promotes illegal
migration for ideological or other reasons that have no democratic
mandate".

On election night, the secretary of state for public diplomacy and
relations, 

[spectre] this is extremely dangerous to our democracy

[János Sugár]

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI (by 
Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin)


a similar one created by ThinkProgress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50pLTvwO80=youtu.be

Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html


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[spectre] Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands

[János Sugár]

Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands after 
outgoing Dutch ambassador gave critical interview about Hungarian gov.

https://thehungaryjournal.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/hungary-recalls-its-ambassador-from-the-netherlands/

https://twitter.com/LuiningMichiel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

bonus:

Moscow spooks return to Hungary, raising NATO hackles
http://www.politico.eu/article/moscow-spooks-return-to-hungary-raising-nato-hackles/
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[spectre] Hungary's transit zones

[János Sugár]

Hungary's transit zones are prisons where pregnant women are 
handcuffed and children go hungry

http://index.hu/belfold/2017/08/03/hungary_s_transit_zones_are_prisons_where_pregnant_women_are_handcuffed_and_children_go_hungry/
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[spectre] the EU's first rogue state

[János Sugár]

Is Hungary the EU's first rogue state?
http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/08/hungary-eus-first-rogue-state-viktor-orban-and-long-march-freedom
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[spectre] bete noire

[János Sugár]

The government billboards began appearing all 
over the capital and beyond just days after Orbán 
accused Hungarian-born financier and 
philanthropist George Soros of building a 
_Brussels kingdom_. He also suggested that Soros 
is directly involved in the European Commissions 
ongoing infringement procedure against Hungary 
for its refusal to participate in the relocation 
of refugees, and urged Hungarians to _not let 
Soros have the last laugh_.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-soros-orban-jews-idUSKBN19R24L

Hungary's Jews recoil at Fidesz portrayal of George Soros
https://www.ft.com/content/9c16b174-62e5-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26895?mhq5j=e2

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/07/02/how-i-became-an-agent-of-george-soros-at-budapest-airport/
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[spectre] Hungary: new NGO law passed

[János Sugár]

The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental 
organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society 
in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The 
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil 
disobedience.
The approved law requires groups receiving more than 24,000 euros 
annually ($26,000) in overseas funding to register as 
"foreign-supported" and disclose their foreign donors, or face 
closure. The legislation resembles a law passed in Russia in 2012, 
which requires NGOs receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign 
agents."

https://bbj.hu/politics/ngo-law-passed-tasz-plans-civil-disobedience_134218

In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/europe/hungary-law-ngo-soros.html

Hungary: NGO law a vicious and calculated assault on civil society
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/06/hungary-ngo-law-a-vicious-and-calculated-assault-on-civil-society/

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Re: [spectre] CEU

[János Sugár]

At 8:35 PM -0500 4/4/17, Keith Sanborn wrote:
How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I 
address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information 
on the links provided. Did I miss it?


hello keith,

you have to go through this long list:

https://www.ceu.edu/istandwithCEU/support-statements

cheers,

j
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Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

[János Sugár]

folks,

what in hungary is going on is not nationalism, but ethinicism,
big difference.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás:
/.../
To get as far as they possibly could from 
democratic nationalism-which is a variant of 
classical republicanism: political equality and 
self-determination-they engaged in what I called 
ethnicism: an apolitical, destructive practice, 
opposed to the idea of citizenship. Transylvanian 
Hungarians were in the first ranks of the 1989 
Romanian revolution, which they were 
repudiating-as it was 'foreign'-within a few 
months, after having been victims of Romanian 
pogroms. Common citizenship appears as a chimera. 
Small wonder though: citizenship and 
civic-democratic nationalism are dependent on the 
state, annihilated by neo-liberal politics. 
Nationalism has reunited small principalities in 
large states-Italy, Germany, Romania, 
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, maybe even 
Soviet Russia. Ethnicism has destroyed them and 
created miserable little statelets, provincial 
and barbarous, dependent on international finance 
and local mafia for their livelihood. In this 
respect, Eastern Europe is not variegated. It is 
an area of fear where a plastic replica of 
tribalism appears soothing and homey.

/.../
https://newleftreview.org/II/80/g-m-tamas-words-from-budapest

cheers,

j


ps

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/g-m-tam-s/anti-immigration-referendum-sunday-in-hungary



At 9:43 AM -0500 4/4/17, Frederic Neyrat wrote:

nationalism is a good thing? I certainly misunderstood your email, sorry,
as nationalism leads to wars and global destruction, cf. WW1, WW2 - and WW3?




2017-04-04 8:16 GMT-05:00 heath bunting :



 > it appears to me that like many other countries, hungary is disengaging

 from imperial vassal statehood and returning to nationalism

 this is potentially a good thing, as the rule of international law is
 incompatible with imperialism and nationalism at least has the option to

 > be compatible with international law


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[spectre] Lex CEU

[János Sugár]

BREAKING: "LEX CEU" LEGISLATION, WHICH MAY FORCE THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN 
UNIVERSITY TO LEAVE BUDAPEST, PASSED BY HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/breaking-lex-ceu-legislation-may-force-central-european-university-leave-budapest-passed-hungarian-government-14033#

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/04/03/ny-hungarian-consul-general-ferenc-kumin-is-not-a-proud-ceu-alumnus-anymore/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/03/eu-tolerated-viktor-orban-hungarian-central-european-university

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Re: [spectre] CEU

[János Sugár]

(btw in Hungary only government politicians and right wing-media 
calls CEU as Soros university)


Over 1,000 cognitive scientists, including 2 Nobel Laureates, have 
signed a letter to Hungarian authorities calling on the government to 
withdraw the proposed legislation and maintain academic freedom and 
scientific excellence. Signatories from over 30 countries include 10 
Harvard professors, 10 Yale professors, 12 MIT professors, 8 
directors of the Max Planck Institute, 25 University of California 
professors, 14 New York University professors, and members of the 
Royal Society and the British Academy, among others.


"We are writing to express our dismay about the proposed legislation 
that would effectively end a 25-year history of scientific excellence 
in Budapest. As an international body of psychologists, 
neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists, we can tell you that our 
colleagues at Central European University are among the most 
respected in the world. Their intellectual legacy has had a global 
impact. We believe any city should count itself fortunate to have 
such a renowned center of academic excellence in its midst.
The proposed legislation will make it effectively impossible for CEU 
to continue to occupy its current position as one of the foremost 
scientific institutions internationally. We respectfully ask that you 
preserve CEU's ability to act as a center of leadership and 
innovation in Hungary and the world by withdrawing this legislation. "

https://www.ceu.edu/article/2017-03-31/14-nobel-laureates-other-leading-academics-urge-hungarian-government-withdraw

Soros's University Turns Into Democracy Battleground in Budapest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/soros-s-university-turns-into-democracy-battleground-in-budapest
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[spectre] Hungarian government chasing CEU

[János Sugár]

Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to 
proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, 
tabled in Hungarian Parliament today. After careful legal study, CEU 
has concluded that these amendments would make it impossible for the 
University to continue its operations as an institution of higher 
education in Budapest, CEU's home for 25 years. CEU is in full 
conformity with Hungarian law. The proposed legislation targets CEU 
directly and is therefore discriminatory and unacceptable. CEU calls 
on the government to scrap the legislation and enter into dialogue to 
find a solution that allows CEU to continue in Budapest as a free and 
independent international graduate university.
"Any legislative change that would force CEU to cease operation in 
Budapest would damage Hungarian academic life and negatively impact 
the government of Hungary's relations with its neighbors, its EU 
partners and with the United States," said CEU President and Rector 
Michael Ignatieff. "I call on the government to enter into 
negotiations with us to find a satisfactory way forward that allows 
CEU to continue in Budapest and to maintain the academic freedoms 
essential to its operation."

https://www.ceu.edu/article/2017-03-28/ceu-responds-proposed-amendments-hungarian-higher-education-law


Proposed higher education law threatens Central European University
http://bbj.hu/economy/proposed-higher-education-law-threatens-central-european-university_130805


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[spectre] Word of the Year 2016 is ...

[János Sugár]

After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries 
Word of the Year 2016 is:


post-truth

an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in 
which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion 
than appeals to emotion and personal belief'.

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[spectre] The crushing of independent press in Hungary

[János Sugár]

Hungary's Left-Wing Paper Suspended Days After Breaking News
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/08/world/europe/ap-eu-hungary-media.html?_r=0

Protests in Hungary at closure of main leftwing opposition newspaper
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/09/protests-in-hungary-at-closure-of-main-leftwing-opposition-newspaper

Newspaper Closes in Hungary, and Hungarians See Government's Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/europe/hungary-newspaper-nepszabadsag.html

The crushing of independent press in Hungary
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/hidv-gi-b-attila-alexandra-barcea/hungary-shock-tactics-against-press-freedoms

ps

the ex journalists of _népszabadság_ will edit 
the next edition of the budapest street paper:


Protestaktion: Obdachlose Redaktion gestaltet 
Sonderausgabe der Budapester Obdachlosenzeitung

http://derstandard.at/245897281/Nepszabadsag-Redakteure-wollen-weiter-unangenehm-sein

..

The latest attacks on journalists and news 
organizations by corrupt populists are 
contributing to a global rollback of fundamental 
rights. http://fpif.org/stop-the-presses/


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[spectre] Degrowth Conference, Budapest

[János Sugár]

The 5th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Budapest 
from 30 August to 3 September 2016.


For the first time, in parallel to the conference, an open festival 
"Budapest Degrowth Week" will feature practical workshops, panel and 
participatory discussions, and also concerts, artistic performances 
and interactive tours throughout the city.


http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=638

fyi:
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1303/msg00023.html
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[spectre] the purveyor of hate

[János Sugár]

The hate-filled, racist, anti-Semitic 
journalistic hack, Zsolt Bayer, on the 
recommendation of Zoltán Balog (Minister of Human 
Resources), received the third highest decoration 
the government can bestow on people of great 
achievement.

http://hungarianspectrum.org/2016/08/19/zsolt-bayer-the-purveyor-of-hate-in-his-own-words/

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/dozens-recipients-return-state-decoration-controversial-journalist-receives-knights-cross-75487#
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[spectre] Sortir du noir

[János Sugár]

http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/f/index.php?sp=liv_id=3184

Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film 
directed by László Nemes. The film premiered at 
the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the 
Grand Prix. It also won the Golden Globe for Best 
Foreign Language Film. The film won the award for 
Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy 
Awards in 2016.


http://berghahnbooks.com/blog/searching-for-feelings-the-scrolls-of-auschwitz-and-son-of-saul

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[spectre] against illiberal education

[János Sugár]

BUDAPEST-Hungary on Tuesday saw the largest public protest since 2014 
as demonstrators rallied against what they see as the populist 
government's tightening grip on education.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in a rainy Hungarian capital 
against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration, the latest sign 
of public discontent with governing politicians.
A group of teachers, parents and students-speakers at the rally in 
front of the country's landmark parliament building-called for a 
one-hour nationwide strike March 30 unless Mr. Orban ensures talks on 
teachers' demands continue in earnest.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-continue-in-hungary-against-governments-education-policies-1458075911

http://www.reuters.com/article/hungary-protest-idUSL5N16N459

for those w r g:
http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/ungarn-lehrer-protestieren-gegen-viktor-orbans-bildungspolitik-a-1082249.html

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/viktor-orban-diffamiert-migranten-und-kritisiert-europas-fluechtlingspolitik-a-1082441.html


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