Viktória Serdült

David Pressman for the NYT: Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that — an illusion. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…

This is extremely bad news for the Hungarian economy and the Orban government, which is facing its biggest challenge yet in the 2026 elections.

I could say thank you, @Alanis, for teaching me how to feel during my teens, and for making me relive that experience yesterday evening. But maybe I’ll just say Thank you.;)

Do you know the joke when the Hungarian foreign minister goes to lay a foundation stone? English transcript of the conversation: - Let's see if we can all get it in. - We're fathers with multiple children, we've done this before, we can do it. Hashtag funny.

És azt a viccet ismered, amikor a magyar külügyminiszter alapkőletételre megy? - Na nézzük, betalálunk-e mindannyian. - Többgyermekes családapák vagyunk, nem először csináljuk, menni fog. Hashtag vicces. tiktok.com/@szijjarto.pet…

Budapest police have opened regulatory offence procedures against @GretaThunberg. Although the documents do not state the reason, Thunberg's last visit to the Hungarian capital was to attend Budapest Pride in July. belvaros-lipotvaros.hu/_upload/announ…

István Tiborcz, who married Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s daughter Ráhel in 2013, nearly doubled his net worth to almost €500mn in the past year alone, according to the Hungarian rich list. ft.com/content/156c3a…

Hungarians have a popular saying: "Visszanyal a fagyi". Translation: "The ice-cream licks back." In other words, watch out, because what you enjoy devouring, might enjoy devouring you. A great analysis of #Hungarian politics by Nick Thorpe for @BBCWorld bbc.com/news/articles/…

Nothing beats summer weekends at Lake Balaton. #teameszakipart

And today’s front page in #Hungarian propaganda daily Magyar Nemzet is:

Ferenc Koszeg, a key person of the 1989 transition to democracy and the anti-communist opposition of the 1980s walking at Budapest Pride on Saturday