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Agnes Urban

@agnesurban.bsky.social

Director of Mertek Media Monitor, Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Analyzing Hungarian media landscape, monitoring media policy developments.

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Agnes Urban@agnesurban.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My short comment in The Guardian about the important role of Blikk in the Hungarian media market. Ringier, the publisher of the tabloid was sold to a pro-government owner just a few days ago. Leaving of all international publishers was an unimaginable scenario after the 1990 political transition.

Flora Garamvolgyi@floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For more than a decade now Hungary has served as a model for other “illiberal democracies” around the world. Donald Trump and his allies have long praised Orbán’s Hungary even as it plunges in press freedom rankings. - My piece from Budapest. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Agnes Urban@agnesurban.bsky.social · last yr.

"We are here to stay – Hungary is our country. We do not ask for permission to help those in need, to act for the common good, to write the news, to stand up for those in need, to participate in shaping our own lives, and we do not ask for permission to criticise when we disagree with something."

Mertek Media Monitor@mertekmonitor.bsky.social · last yr.

"Democracy, public participation and social action do not threaten Hungary's sovereignty - rather the government threatens Hungarian democracy" - joint statement of Hungarian civil society organizations and independent media outlets

Agnes Urban@agnesurban.bsky.social · last yr.

"Orbán slowly replaced civil servants with loyalists; used economic pressure and regulation to destroy the free press; robbed universities of their independence, and shut one of them down; politicized the court system; and repeatedly changed the constitution to give himself electoral advantages."

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last yr.

What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · last yr.

Orban's bill banning the Budapest Pride would allow the authorities to fine not only organizers but also participants (!) As I have said, never before was a better time to go to Hungary, attend this year's pride march in Budapest and call Orban's bluff. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Hungary's ruling party submits bill to ban Pride march

Hungary's ruling party submitted a bill to parliament on Monday that would ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and impose fines on organisers and people attending the event which Budapest has held for three decades.

reuters.com

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · last yr.

💥Viktor Orbán deployed pure dehumanizing fascist rhetoric in his March 15 speech to threaten his critics: “The stink bugs survived the winter. We'll dismantle the financial machinery that has bought politicians, judges, journalists, fake NGOs and political activists... They've survived too much."

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Agnes Urban@agnesurban.bsky.social · last yr.

For years, many of us have been saying that the Orban regime could be toxic and dangerous for Europe. I didn't think it was so much.

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · last yr.

🤯🇪🇺 The Heritage Foundation, the Trump admin’s agenda-setting think tank, is receiving proposals from illiberal forces in Poland & Hungary on reshaping the EU. Obtained by @vsquare.bsky.social, these include dismantling the EU Commission, the ECJ & renaming the bloc the European Community of Nations.