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Katalin Cseh

@katka_cseh

Oct 6

Staggering crowds at yesterday's protests in Budapest, as students, teachers & allies rally against the crisis of public education in Orbán’s Hungary

👉 Some background to better understand what brought the situation to a boiling point for teachers & their incredible students 🧵

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The immediate trigger was the sacking of several teachers, including Tamás Palya & Katalin Törley (pictured below)

It was retaliation for their civil disobedience action, their only form of protest left after the government outlawed strikes

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But there’s a longer story behind. A key element is defunding public education, to the brink of collapse.

During the past decade, 3 consecutive Orbán-govt’s decreased funding for education by a whopping 16%.

Protesters know: no country can prosper with its future defunded.

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Katalin Cseh

@katka_cseh

Jul 25

Viktor Orban's race-mixing rant included a nasty insult against basically every EU ally. The absolute low point for HU diplomacy. But this language is toxic for the EU as a whole & it should be called out.

Some quotes, carefully left out from official English-language writeups:

When talking about the energy crisis, Orban said--

"the EU wants everyone to reduce their gas consumption by 15 percent. I don't see how they can enforce it, but there is German know-how for this... From a long time ago, I mean."

Yes, that's a joke about gas and Nazi Germany.

Orban's hot take on the Eurozone North/South divide:

"The South shows no willingness to suddenly change their culture, so their debt levels are at 120-150-180 percent."

This is the hurtful & wrong lazy Southerner trope. I wonder how it flies with far-right allies in Italy/Spain

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Katalin Cseh

@katka_cseh

Mar 25

@ZelenskyyUa

It took @ZelenskyyUa’s extraordinary moral clarity to call out Orban’s shameful cozying up to Putin

This is exactly why we are fighting our hearts out to unseat him. Hungary deserves so much better than the lone protector of a war criminal in the EU

Orban & his mouthpieces attacked Zelensky, saying “have you no shame.” Orban is “protecting Hungary’s interests,”“peace in our country” and “low energy prices”— they aregue.

None of it is true. His actions serve Putin’s interests, not Hungary’s. Here’s why👇

How could it be in Hungary’s interest to totally isolate ourselves in the EU and NATO? To head to Vucic (Putin’s last friend in Europe) instead of joining Central European PMs to Kyiv?

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Katalin Cseh

@katka_cseh

Mar 6

@EUvsDisinfo

Thousands protest at Hungary’s public broadcaster MTVA, fed up with Orban’s vast media machine spreading Kremlin talking points & disinformation about the #UkraineWar

Here’s a thread with examples👇

Dear EU, this undermines all efforts to counter Putin’s propaganda @EUvsDisinfo

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The EU banned Sputnik and RT— but here’s a “security expert” on Hungary’s public broadcaster comparing Zelensky to Hitler

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Again, Hungary’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster (not a small fringe outlet) repeats Putin’s genocide lie

origo.hu/nagyvilag/2022…

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