What is the Hungarian Observer?
The Hungarian Observer is a newsletter focusing on all aspects of Hungarian current affairs. Our team has a diverse range of expertise including politics, history, film, and religion.
If you subscribe to us, we will send you two articles per week; on Tuesdays and Fridays. We have two types of articles: a feature-length piece by our regular writers or a guest contributor and our so-called panels where several writers offer their brief thoughts on a pressing issue concerning Hungary.
Our contributors:
Ábel Bede
Ábel Bede is a journalist and researcher with interests in politics, cinema, and history. He was formerly in charge of Kafkadesk’s Hungary coverage and has contributed to several other Hungarian- and English-language publications.
Alexander Faludy
Alexander Faludy is a freelance journalist based in Budapest. He has a special interest in the overlap of religion and politics in Orbán’s Hungary.
Hanna Fölsz
Hanna Fölsz is a researcher pursuing a PhD in political science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the erosion of democracy in Hungary and Poland and how opposition parties participate in politics when democratic institutions and norms are under threat or in decline.
Gabriela Greilinger
Gabriela Greilinger is a political science PhD student at the University of Georgia, School of Public and International Affairs, and the Co-Founder of the grassroots youth platform Quo Vademus. In her research, she focuses on the far right, democracy, democratic erosion and political behaviour, with a regional focus on the EU, particularly Central-Eastern Europe.
Iván Merker
Iván Merker has been writing about Hungarian politics in English and Hungarian for almost a decade and is a semi-regular contributor to the Hungarian left-wing newspaper Mérce. He is also active in ‘real politics’, currently in the Hungarian left-wing political movement Szikra Mozgalom. He studied philosophy and political theory in the UK.
Lili Rutai
Lili Rutai is a London-based journalist. With expertise in OSINT and data journalism, she worked on investigations exposing corruption in Hungary and human rights violations in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia. She is the founder and co-host of the Hungarian feminist podcast Vénusz Projekt.
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