Angela Merkel visits Hungary in bid to break EU nation’s warm ties with Russia – Telegraph

German chancellor in Budapest to press Viktor Orbán into united front against Russia ahead of visit from Vladimir Putin.

International headlines go as such. International media happens to know for a fact that the German chancellor traveled to Budapest to press the importance of democratic values and her disagreement with the Orbán Government’s current policies.

Interestingly enough, Hungarian state media knows nothing of that sort. According to its news programme, the visit was a huge diplomatic success, and all about economic and political cooperation.

Now that puts us really close to “illiberal democracy” in Russia and China in more than one ways…