Magyar promised a reckoning, justice, reconciliation, and a fresh start in his first speech as PM. He offered his apologies to everyone whom the state had humiliated or failed to protect in recent...

According to the paper’s sources, Hungarian counterintelligence had recommended Sushkov’s expulsion as early as February, but the Orbán government blocked the move.

Complaints have been filed on suspicion of embezzlement and budgetary fraud, but outgoing Minister of Culture Balázs Hankó says that “cultural decisions are a matter of taste”.

In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, his last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.