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If László Toroczkai had said this twenty years ago, during the storming of the television headquarters, his own friends would have lynched him on the spot. Imagine him standing on Liberty Square, a few steps from the Soviet memorial, facing his own supporters and declaring that János Kádár was a statesman. Now imagine the same thing twenty years later, in the studio of Partizán, where it has alrea

The Niculescu government adopted this year's first budget revision by emergency ordinance. Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare made the draft public on Facebook, and at the same time announced that “the 6.2 percent cash deficit target remains unchanged.” The biggest winners of the revision are healthcare and the pension system. The budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (FNUASS) will grow by 3

The release of the agent files has put Hungary at a border situation: will we finally face up to who signed and who did not, or will we let everyone off the hook again? A personal and philosophical reckoning from a Transylvanian perspective, from Péter Kornis to Szilárd Demeter. The personal opinion of Anna Karczag.

On November 3, the morning of the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would end the roughly $4 billion in annual aid it provides to Israel at the end of 2026. In a phone interview on Fox News's "Fox and Friends," the president said he had reached this agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu months earlier, and that the idea had come from N

The Democrats have won both the House of Representatives and the Senate, meaning that in the last two years of Donald Trump's second presidential term he will face a Congress that can launch investigations against him, reject his nominees, and deny the new funding his policies require. Party leaders have left the possibility of impeachment open, but removing the president takes more than an electi

We took a bit of a look through Hungary's informer network files, searching for Hungarians from Romania.

“Ideological-patriotic” – this is given as the reason for recruitment on György Nógrádi's secret police registration card (the so-called “hatos karton”), who then, under the code name “Raguza,” was tasked with protecting the youth, since that was the assignment he received. The year is 1981, June.

The four Israeli opposition parties preparing to replace Benjamin Netanyahu are proposing Gadi Eisenkot as prime minister, after their leaders agreed on Tuesday to begin negotiations on forming a national emergency government. In last Tuesday's election, Netanyahu's bloc lost its majority, but Eisenkot's alliance has even fewer seats than his, which means the 19 seats held jointly by the two Arab-

In Tuesday's American midterm elections, the Democratic Party regained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, meaning Donald Trump will face an opposition majority in both chambers for the last two years of his term. In the Senate, the Democrats secured the majority late Tuesday night, while the Democratic victory in the House was projected by CBS News, NBC News, CNN and Deci

The whole thing is so shoddy that it's almost impossible to write about. You end up feeling like the idiot.

On October 28, Alice Weidel, co-chair and chancellor candidate of Germany's far-right AfD, wrote on X that an increasing number of migrants from Romania are plundering the German social system, from child benefits to basic services and healthcare. As an example, she cited Magdeburg, where, according to her, spending on immigrants from Romania has grown twentyfold, to three million euros a year, an

Viktor Orbán fell in the spring, Aleksandar Vučić a week ago, and now the sovereigntist/pro-Kremlin beam is creaking in Bratislava as well. On Tuesday morning, MP Roman Malatinec announced that he was leaving Rudolf Huliak's Rural Party and switching to the party being formed by former Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba. According to Slovak public broadcaster STVR, this means Robert Fico's governin

On Tuesday in Bucharest, Prime Minister Luca Niculescu said out loud what Romanian business owners have been feeling on their own skin for a while now: more companies are preparing to lay off staff than to hire new ones, he said at the presentation of the business barometer, where he also spoke about the need to restore companies' appetite for investment and create well-paying jobs, especially for

The "Transylvania Welcomes You Home AI Assistant" has a damning opinion of the "Transylvania Welcomes You Home" program

Countless little games are underway, each played with wild fervor, with AUR and the RMDSZ sometimes chasing each other and sometimes waiting for the other to catch up, and by now only the ones actually playing the parts know which is the sidecar and which sits in the saddle.

Five senators, originally elected on the lists of SOS Romania and the Party of Young People (POT), have joined the PSD's Senate faction, whose membership has thus grown from thirty-five to forty. The switch was announced on Monday, November 2, during the plenary session of the upper house – reports G4Media.

On Friday, the government decisions on the dismissal of the prefects and deputy prefects of the outgoing Bolojan government were published, and the Niculescu government filled almost all the vacated posts with PSD people. In a few Transylvanian counties, however, the big clean-out did not take place: according to a report by G4Media, RMDSZ representatives can stay.

I watched it, because Facebook put Zsolt Veress’s latest video on my timeline. Yes, the one from the turtle troublemaker, the authentic purveyor of everyday idiocy. In the video he demands that the handful of Transylvanian Hungarians who, as Hungarian citizens, voted for Tisza, give back their Hungarian citizenship. Because if they don’t, says the turtle, the expert in gutting and foot-washing, it

The RMDSZ's behavior regarding the territorial-administrative reform floated by Grindeanu is becoming increasingly strange. After the news first broke, a deep silence surrounded the matter — maintained not only by our one and only party, but also by its lackey press. Then Hunor said something to the effect that they would wait and see, that they might support it or might not, but in any case no cl

Donald Trump has identified yet another threat to American wildlife: solar panels, which he claims are a hundred times hotter than a stove and fry any animal that jumps on them. The president of the United States shared this peculiar energy discovery at a campaign rally in Texas, declaring that the black panels “kill all the animals.” The story so far has not explained why America's entire fauna w