Dear friends,
I feel it is important that I, too, tell you all how enthusiastically I am following the exciting developments in Hungary. The election result – and above all the scale of the victory – has surprised me just as much as it has everyone else. I have the feeling that the country is suddenly facing opportunities we never even dared to hope for.
As someone living abroad, I am particularly pleased that the mad rampage of Hungarian foreign policy against Europe might now come to an end. For the obsessive hostility towards Brussels, which has grown ever stronger in recent years, was a historical crime. Hungary, which at the time of the transition to democracy was still regarded as a model for the whole of Europe, has become an adversary of Europe during the term of the now-defeated government.
The fact that Hungarian voters have now delivered such a decisive rejection of this policy is of enormous significance in the eyes of the European public. I very much hope that the country can leave the legacy of the past 16 years behind and that society’s clear Western European orientation becomes irreversible.
The fact that such an overwhelming majority of young people voted for change should fill us older people with pride. Bravo!
Hamburg, 22 May 2026
Adam Fischer