On Day 2 of MCC’s ‘The Future of Publishing’ conference, a panel consisting of Israeli influencer Yair Netanyahu, German journalist Roland Tichy and Megafon founder István Gergely Kovács discussed the success stories of their online enterprises.
The overarching topic of the day was the changing media landscape in the digital age. However, speakers also tackled the issue of the left-wing bias in mainstream media today.
At the opening event of MCC Brussels, Balázs Orbán said: ’As neighbours, we need to talk and listen. This is the only antidote to the spectre of political polarization that haunts politics today.’
The junior classes at Mathias Corvinus Collegium received a record number of applicants this year, the highest figure for the faculty in 26 years.
David Coulthard, former Formula One driver, now commentator, journalist and president of the British Racing Drivers Club, spoke at MCC Feszt in Esztergom on 29 July.
‘We are not lovers of liberty in any pure sense whatsoever. The Covid pandemic revealed that we are a nation of tutters, conformists, and curtain twitchers…’
At the Fonódások book launch in Budapest, two roundtable discussions brought together couples featured in the volume to reflect on marriage, cultural identity and the values that Roma Hungarian families pass on to the next generation.
‘Modern conservatism will never produce another Buckley. The current climate is too hostile to showy intellectualism and the media too fractured for any one man…to dominate the conversation.’
At a joint press conference in Serbia, PM Viktor Orbán of Hungary and President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia emphasized deepening energy cooperation, including the accelerated construction of the Hungary–Serbia oil pipeline. Vučić thanked Hungary for its steady political support as Serbia navigates energy challenges tied to sanctions.
Andrej Protić, a senior Serbian security expert, warns that Europe’s drug threat is entering a dangerous new phase. Speaking to Hungarian Conservative, he said illegal migration and trafficking networks remain intertwined, but the real fault line now runs between Western harm-reduction models and Eastern zero-tolerance approaches—reflecting a deeper value divide.