Among the rising generation of conservatives in the US and Western Europe, both Hungary and its capital are becoming synonymous with intellectual conservatism.

The Hungarian foreign minister condemned the burning of an effigy of Turkish President Erdogan in Stockholm as ‘shameful and disgusting’.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás was an unconventional intellectual, one of the most famous Hungarian philosophers of the century and an important figure of the regime change years.

Edina Pottyondy celebrated the New Year by uploading a parody of the National Anthem to her YouTube channel.

‘The Hungarian prime minister not only understands the people, but is also able to give direction and to synthesise. He can bring the people’s expectations in line with what is achievable.’

While the internationalisation of news has created an environment where major international events are always top news, from a conservative standpoint, it is the local challenges a particular political unit faces that should be prioritised.

‘We have to realize that no matter how smart and powerful we think we are, we will not get very far without the Almighty.’

From Czechia to Ukraine, voters in several countries of Central and Eastern Europe will be going to the polls in 2023.

The accusations made against Amnesty International as an employer over the past years point towards an institutional failure to live up to the standards the organisation advocates for.

It may be surprising that Muslims could survive in a Christian kingdom for centuries, but their linguistic and religious separation was exactly why they did not threaten the predominantly Christian society.

Could it be that Orbán is not the enfant terrible of the EU, nor the Trojan horse of Moscow, but one of the few statesmen left in the trans-Atlantic alliance with some common sense and long-term vision?

‘Instead of political work, there is only aimless hatred and clinging to progressive Western interest groups on the Hungarian left.’

According to a study on the most coveted passports in the world, Hungarian passports are ranked among the top 10.

Regarding the sanctions, the Prime Minister declared that it is high time there was a courageous person in Brussels who will admit that the sanctions policy has been botched and was miscalculated. ‘We have messed up badly,’ Viktor Orbán remarked.

‘We need the United States and NATO to say to Russia, “Okay, we get it. NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine and to Georgia.” In my view, that is not a defeat of NATO. That is just common sense.’

The revenue of the Hungarian film industry hit record highs in 2022, while total registered spending exceeded 250 billion forints, a 20 per cent increase compared to 2021.

The Taliban have been doing quite well economically through the fleecing of international humanitarian aid and making deals with draconian countries like China.

Recently published statistics about 2022 workforce data show that the Hungarian unemployment rate has plunged to under four per cent.

The losses that the Hungarian Second Army sustained in January-February 1943 represent one of the largest death tolls in Hungarian military history.

Instead of decoupling and returning to bloc politics, Hungary’s strategic interest lies in increasing connectivity.

Turkey’s relations with NATO have been contentious over the years, but this is not unique among the member states and the parties have always managed to resolve their differences.

Nézőpont Intézet measured a 56 per cent Fidesz support among likely voters if the European Parliamentary elections were held this Sunday.

Our readers’ top five and the editorial team’s top five articles of 2022 covered a wide range of topics, from political analyses and film reviews to the discussion of the nature of conservatism.

The uptick in the number of refugees from Ukraine to Hungary is hardly surprising given the cold winter and the damage to the Ukrainian infrastructure and housing.

Serving as the pope is one of the most demanding of any leadership position; at the same time, life expectancy is high, so the possibility of the resignation of a pope due to illness indeed comes to the fore.

As his main research interest was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and he had also extensively written on Emperor Franz Joseph, it was András Gerő who first initiated the establishment of the Institute of Habsburg History.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine not only opened a new era in geopolitics but also affected the political framework for the protection of national minorities.

Veszprém-Balaton’s year as European Capital of Culture will be dedicated to creativity, with art, music and gastronomy-related events being at the core of the programmes.

This is one of the biggest deals in Hungarian telecommunications history.

The legendary gymnast is the oldest living Olympic champion in the world today.