![An uneasy relationship – Orbán and the banks](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/206/258x165.jpg)
After a tumultuous relationship in its first two years in office, Fidesz appears poised to reconcile with the banking sector.
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While Fidesz’ standing among likely voters continues to be strong, it experienced a massive collapse among the population at large.
More![The budget deficits haunt the Hungarian government](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/208/258x165.jpg)
With their profligate ways, many governments have sown the seeds of potential penalties from Brussels on account of excessive budget deficits, but the Orbán-government is now most likely to reap the dire consequences.
More![An easy spring in Parliament?](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/209/258x165.jpg)
Fidesz has promised that the spring session of parliament will be considerably more relaxed than the second half of 2011, when Parliament passed a record number of laws, many of which were controversial to boot.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave his annual state of Hungary address last week. He offered no new insights, but provided an extensive defence of the government’s policies.
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After months of protracted debates within the government and between the responsible ministry and various social stakeholders, Parliament finally passed the reform of the higher education system.
More![President Schmitt embroiled in plagiarism scandal](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/214/258x165.jpg)
Recent allegations that President Pál Schmitt has plagiarised most if not all of his dissertation threaten to harm beyond repair a presidency that has been beset by difficulties to begin with.
More![Tactical Orbán soothes markets in Brussels](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/215/258x165.jpg)
Almost a year to date of his last appearance in the European Parliament, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faced his critics again in a heated plenary session.
More![Is Gordon Bajnai planning a comeback?](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/219/258x165.jpg)
Though he took the helm in troubled times, Gordon Bajnai’s premiership is widely considered a brief period of stability in the long period of chaos that has characterised Hungarian politics over the past years.
More![The first all-inclusive left-wing protest](https://policysolutions.eu/userfiles/hir/220/258x165.jpg)
On January 2nd Fidesz took a little break and celebrated itself and its new Fundamental Laws at the Budapest Opera. After slightly over a week without a demonstration, the opposition, too, gathered for the occasion, though in a less celebratory mood than the official guests.
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