Sep 3, 2023 · Everyone knows the parable of the gradually cooked frog. But the reverse method can be just as effective. Threaten the frog with boiling water, and then offer very warm water and it will happily accept it. Don’t use this simile as a sous-vide frog recipe.

Mar 7, 2024 · In May 2023, a delegation of members of the European Parliament concluded that Hungary’s audit system was inadequate and that the government was using public funds to ‘enrich the family and friends of Viktor Orbán’.

Jan 26, 2024 · An EU official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the Hungarian saying referencing a frog's bottom used to describe when something is not going well is an accurate description of where the trust between Orbán and the other EU leaders is.

Sep 19, 2024 · Viktor Orbán has been in power longer than any other democratically elected E.U. leader now in office, and during his time he has sought to bend democracy to his own desires. His ruling party, Fidesz, has completely re-designed the election system.

Jul 27, 2018 · Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has dismissed the European Commission's latest refugee initiatives and criticism of his hard-line anti-immigration stance, comparing its …

Jun 10, 2014 · A surprisingly compelling defence of Hungary's strongman leader Viktor Orban. The problem being, while Fischer does provide plenty of evidence against what he considers Orban's unfair treatment in the Western press, "no one really cares about Hungary" (the book's refrain) so I don't know how sound that evidence is.

Sep 30, 2022 · The EPP in particular should have learned its lesson by now: by the time it came around to expelling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party from its ranks last year, the country’s institutions and democracy were already seriously damaged.

Jan 26, 2024 · After years of a softly-softly approach with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, this time European diplomats are giving signals that the “nuclear option” — kicking Budapest out of the EU voting process — is no longer unthinkable if he imperils the security of Ukraine, an EU candidate country.

Jan 26, 2024 · Here’s the link to the original story on Politico: Viktor Orbán: soon to be under the frog's ass? < < Politico. The short version: apparently the EU has an option that I was not aware of, and...

Jul 7, 2013 · Speaking at a session of the National Assembly on July 4, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Tavares report is “unjust” and “hostile toward Hungarians” and that it “gravely insults Hungary” and “violates Hungary’s sovereignty.”