Pestiside also writes in some detail about the Hungarian Prime Minister’s visit to W.DC.
” As for what was discussed during the PM’s 50 minutes of face-time with Bush, aside from more “balanced relationship” blablabla, the substance seemed to mostly involve visas, and more specifically the desire by the Hungarian side to get the American side to quit demanding that Hungarians get them before coming to the states. Also, Gyurcsány apparently invited Bush to visit Hungary during next fall’s 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising, which Bush sounded non-committal about”

Go and read the referenced full post if you are interested, it’s in English

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Pocakos News compared the Hungarian (based on the materials of MTI Hungarian News Agency) and US media coverage of the meeting of American President Bush and Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsány. He found that there are no significant differences, but the Hungarian review seems more edited (e.g. the order of coverage does not follow the timeline of the actual event) and some small indications to the reaction of the audience are missing, like some instances of “laughter” among the listeners. E.g. when to answer a journalist question if the planned 2006 travel of President Bush to Hungary will be at the time of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, PM Gyurcsány ended his sentence as: „and I’m completely certain that he will come.” – at this point the US coverage indicated: (Laughter.)

Pocakos adds “The Hungarian media does not even mention this, although this spontaneous “laughter” of the listeners is indicative.”.

(The referenced blog is in Hungarian)

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