Piroska Szalai
Public Figure
“Let the numbers speak!”
Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister
Expertise in Economy, Competitiveness, Labor Market, Demography, and Family Well-Being
And the reality, however, is…:
https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/hu/nep0006.html
They’ve started portraying Hungary as an overachiever — cherry-picking a few numbers and celebrating them as if they were huge victories.
If a statistic was 5 ten years ago and now it’s 10, then suddenly we’re “the best in the world.”
But what’s behind those numbers?
Everyone else sees the full picture and just shakes their head.
Reality doesn’t matter anymore — only that they can squeeze out a round of applause from anything.
And then the Fidesz loyalists can cheer:
“Look how far our sweet homeland has come!”
Meanwhile, everything else… simply doesn’t matter.