Szabolcs Panyi
Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org and Direkt36.hu. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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- 👀 Donald Trump endorses Viktor Orbán who has spent years branding critics and the opposition as US pawns, accusing the Obama and Biden White House of meddling in Hungary’s domestic affairs. Orbán will surely be outraged by such a direct interference in sovereign Hungary’s electoral process.
- 💥In a strange and somewhat arrogant speech, Viktor Orbán said Donald Trump “owes the Hungarian people” a visit to Budapest and that it’s “really expected” he come to “greet the Hungarians,” laying bare his desperation to lure Trump to Hungary as his election campaign falters.
- 💥Bombshell, sort of: Polish PM @donald-tusk.bsky.social is the first world leader, as far as I know, to say out loud that Jeffrey Epstein may have worked with Russian intelligence. As Poland’s PM pledges a serious investigation, one uncanny question remains: how much will US authorities cooperate?
- 2010–2026. Not only Hungary, but Viktor Orbán himself changed a lot as he became the EU’s current longest-serving prime minister.
- Finally, a chart where my country (Hungary) is not the worst. 🥴
- 🔎 NEW INVESTIGATION: In Viktor Orbán's Hungary, children in care homes are targeted by criminal networks, with pimps effectively embedding themselves within the child-protection system. Those working in the sector say they are powerless to stop the abuse. @vsquare.bsky.social @atlatszo.hu
- 💥👀 "A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress." @wsj.com www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
- 💥Viktor Orbán had what no one else before: a lasting supermajority in parliament and—thanks to EU funds—more money to develop Hungary than at any time in a century. The result after 16 years: a failing economy and disastrous public services. 🎬 Direkt36's new documentary, The Trap, is out soon!
- 🔎From the Epstein files: In 2018, Steve Bannon brags in a chat with an Epstein associate about advising European far-right leaders such as Viktor Orbán. Epstein's friend Terje Rød-Larsen says the same about Bannon.
