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Listen here to Direkt36 co-founder András Pethő discuss 'The Trap', reporting in a backsliding democracy, and The Washington Post crisis on the latest 242.news Hungary podcast out today!

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22.02.2026 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Listen here to Direkt36 co-founder András Pethő discuss 'The Trap', reporting in a backsliding democracy, and The Washington Post on the latest 242.news Hungary podcast out today!

twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/fidesz-are...

22.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊New Podcast out! "A kind of false flag operation may be committed"

Géza Jeszenszky, Hungary’s ex foreign minister, warns Orbán's attacks on Ukraine may presage a constitutional coup on Twenty-Four Two with @pbergsen.bsky.social and Tim G. Jones.

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15.02.2026 07:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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🔊New Podcast out! “Trump hasn't been the boon to Orbán that many expected”

@zecsaky.bsky.social from @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social on the European impact of Hungary's election on the Twenty-Four Two podcast with @pbergsen.bsky.social and Tim G. Jones.

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08.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

🔊Podcast: “People are waiting for change, so there is a huge expectation”

Hungarian 'red baron' Gábor Bojár explains why liberals should use Péter Magyar's to topple Viktor Orbán on the Twenty-Four Two Podcast. with @pbergsen.bsky.social and Tim G. Jones.

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03.02.2026 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“It was not clear yet at what stage other countries could join, nor what precisely the six, who are due to meet again, want to achieve”. This is why this “core” vanguard is mistaken. They share some ambitions and not others. The future of Europe is “clubs” with an S underpinned by the EEA.

29.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊New 242.news podcast: Hungarian lessons for the Trump-era Fed.

"Since Covid, Hungary couldn't get out from stagflation so there is no growth and high inflation," says Júlia Király, who experienced Viktor Orbán’s central bank takeover from the inside.

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25.01.2026 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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24.01.2026 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊242.news podcast: “Péter Magyar is a much more dangerous opponent for the government than any other former challenger”.

2026 Hungary election special co-hosted by @pbergsen.bsky.social with pollster Dániel Róna on how Viktor Orbán can still win:

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18.01.2026 09:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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"Why should Americans have all the fun?"

Have you been deranged by a decade of Trumpism? Do you need a nail-biting political battle over the future of liberal democracy but without Orange Man and his cult? If so, this is the podcast series for you.

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12.01.2026 19:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"The point is how Orbán can react to a possible defeat" Stefano Bottoni on Viktor Orbán's political odyssey

🔊242.news podcast: "The point is how Orbán can react to a possible defeat".

2026 Hungary election special co-hosted by @pbergsen.bsky.social with Stefano Bottoni on Viktor Orbán's political odyssey.

Listen and subscribe (free) to www.242.news at: twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/the-point-...

11.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊Podcast: “Hungary is to the American right what Sweden used to be to the American left” New podcast series on Europe's pivotal 2026 election

🔊Podcast: “Hungary is to the American right what Sweden used to be to the American left”.

The new weekly 'Twenty-Four Two' 2026 Hungary election special series opens with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social.

Listen and subscribe (free) to www.242.news at: twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-hu...

04.01.2026 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊Podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" Paul Kelly on why "family, faith and flag" is a dead end for the left

🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism.

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27.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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