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Hungary Responds to New York Times Coverage of Migrant Crisis: ‘You Just Don’t Get It’

by Jack Montgomery Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has responded to accusations of wrongdoing by “ivory tower” editors at The New York Times by saying that they “just don’t get” the European migrant crisis. The newspaper’s editorial board claimed that Prime Minister Orbán was “playing the European Union for a patsy” on 13 March, urging the bloc’s central authorities to take action against his government. “It’s easy to be charmed by the human rights nonsense when you’re penning editorials from an office in Midtown Manhattan,” replied Kovács on an official government blog post.  “But we’re running a government responsible… View Article