Orbán is lying. There is no better word for it. For years he has been using "public sevice" media for this. He accuses his political opponents of something he himself is doing.

As a committed pacifist and a father of six, I tend to follow the events in Ukraine with a splitting sense of helplessness: while glued to the news, one moment my fist clenches into action, the next the same hand is more likely to hold my children close to reassure them that everything will be alright. But there is trouble, indeed. And not just in Ukraine. Also in the minds of many, unfortunately.

At a government briefing, Zoltán Kovács complained that some journalists are trying to accuse Fides of being a friend of Russia.

Fidesz MEPs also voted in favour of action against the Russian "spy bank" and Russian residency bondholders, and also supported the termination of cooperation with Rosatom, which is also involved in the Paks project, said the MEP of MSZP-Párbeszéd on Tuesday.

In one month's time we have to decide: Orbán and Putin or Europe and peace! I have no doubt which is the right way.

Thousands of people are losing their homes and loved ones a just a few hundred kilometres away from us.

According to the latest Freedom House report, Hungary is still only partly free.

The war has broken out in Ukraine: not just in Eastern Ukraine, but the worst-case scenarion, a full invasion has been realised in the wake of Russian aggression, which is unlikely to be resolved in just a few weeks.

Under no circumstances can violence be a means of asserting interests, and therefore, as co-presidents of MSZP, we condemn Russian aggression!

Fidesz has failed to bring the Hungarian minimum wage up to EU levels in 12 years, so it remains among the laggards and the lowest in the Visegrad countries. This is also due to the Orbán government's policy of taxing even the previously tax exempt lowest wages.