Dániel Fehér

@feher.de

European political strategist 🇪🇺 Campaigns, stakeholder navigation & strategic comms across 35+ countries + EU. 🇩🇪 Berlin-based 🇭🇺 Democracy, civil society & election integrity in Hungary. Work with me 👉 www.feher.de

Von einer Bundesregierung, die den Aktionsplan Queer Leben einstellt, die Lambda die Finanzierung wegkürzt, die queere Menschen an Verfolgerstaaten ausliefert und die es zum CSD keine Regenbogenfahnen hisst ("Zirkuszelt") empfinde ich jegliche Solidaritätserklärungen als pure Heuchelei. #CSDBerlin

Screenshot vom Tagesspiegel: Zu sehen ist Friedrich Merz und die Überschrift: Kanzler spricht von "abscheulicher Tat". Politiker reagieren bestürzt auf schweren Zwischenfall beim Berliner CSD

We have seen this playbook twice. Smartphones and social media made themselves indispensable, then sold our #dependence back to us. #AI is running the same script, faster and more personal. I wrote about how, and why #Europe may be the only one able to stop it. 1/6

Social Card with white text: "The Dependency Business, Now on Steroids. How the AI industry is repeating the smartphone-and-social-media script and why Europe should not wait twenty years to notice. Dániel's Substack"

Darkened photo in the background: A colorful, segmented "Jitterbug" fishing lure with two treble hooks hangs vertically on the left. The background is a blurred view of a wide lake under a cloudy, overcast sky with mountains in the distance.

New piece on my Substack: In March 2026, #Hungary 's counter-terror police hijacked a bank convoy on its way to #Ukraine: €70m in cash and gold, seized weeks before an election #Orbán badly needed. We now know the order came from his own Cabinet Office. 🧵 1/4

Some ideas sound strange at first. Like legal personhood for rivers, forests or mountains. But when you look closer, it's not stranger than treating companies as persons. So I'm very proud to be part of this new initiative to bring #RightOfNature to the #EU with the support of 1.000.000+ citizens.

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Should a lake be allowed to hire its own lawyer and sue a company? It may sound unlikely, but that's the goal of a group of European conservationists.

Hungary's new PM spent his first week opening cupboards, tearing down fences, and livestreaming tours of his predecessor's palace. Several observers called it a waste of time. Why I think it was some of the most effective political communication I've seen in years: open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p...

The Week the New Government Didn't Govern

A masterclass in political communications with Péter Magyar's first weeks in power, guided tours in Orbán's offices, and a box of missing porcelain cups

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BREAKING: Viktor Orbán quits Hungary's parliament after 36 years – confirming my earlier scoop that he's planning a longer US trip this summer, where heads of the Orbán business empire – his daughter and son-in-law – already live, and where he could possibly seek refuge from prosecution.

Voting in Hungary is underway. Opposition leader Péter Magyar, leading in polls, has cast his vote. Turnout at 7am is 3.46%—a record, twice as high as 4 years ago. Early data shows opposition areas overperforming, while Fidesz strongholds are lagging. Follow me for updates on the #HungaryElection

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“The Russians are already in the pantry.” Every Hungarian knows this line from the classic 1965 comedy "The Corporal and Others". In my piece on the upcoming Hungarian elections, I'm explaining why sixty years later this sounds less a punchline and more a briefing: open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p...

A still from Keleti Márton's The Corporal and Others (1965): A black-and-white film still showing two soldiers (a Russian and a Hungarian) in a pantry, separated by rows of preserving jars. The Russian soldier faces the camera with his finger raised to his lips in a silencing gesture.

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic

While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

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🇭🇺 #Hungary, 7 weeks before #elections. #Orbán hits his worst-ever poll numbers. Hours later: troops at power stations, claims of imminent Ukrainian #terror attacks. Evidence? None. An opening move of a false-flag operation straight out of Putin’s playbook? My take: open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p...

Election Panic in Budapest – Is Orbán About to Play the Terror Card?

On Wednesday, the polling firm Medián published numbers that must have landed in Fidesz headquarters like a bucket of ice water.

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We are the ones who trained AI. Our data was fed to it. Our public dollars also funded the R&D. Universal basic income NOW, not only to create a floor that the displaced can't fall below, but also to universally share what we all made possible. UBI is a dividend. It's just. It's rightful. It's ours.

Hungary's election date is set: April 12th, 2026. 12 weeks until Orbán's final countdown. With opposition polling 10-12 points ahead, the question isn't whether Hungarians want change – it's whether Europe will stand with them if Orbán tries to steal it. 1/10 open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p...

Orbán’s Final Countdown: 12 Weeks to Save Hungarian Democracy

On Tuesday, Hungary’s president announced elections for April 12th. Europe has 12 weeks to stand with Hungarian citizens as they exercise their democratic right to change government

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Wo ist das Geld, Herr Merz?! Frankreich gibt, Norwegen gibt, selbst Schwellenländer wie Indonesien und Brasilien haben konkrete Summen für den Tropenwaldfonds #TFFF zugesagt. Die Welt und die Klimakonferenz #COP30 warten. Auf Sie, Herr Bundeskanzler! 🧵

Grafik zeigt eiinen stilisierten Brief mit der Überschrift "Offener Brief an Merz" und dem Text "Die Weltgemeinschaft wartet auf die Zusage Deutschlands von mindestens 2,5 Mrd. US-Dollar für en Tropenwaldfonds, Herr Bundeskanzler!"