They met.

They deliberated.

They lied.

Mr. Peter Madyar, the current Prime Minister of Hungary, has seen fit to pull back the velvet curtain. And what did he find? A secret.

A camp.

A hidden sanctuary for illegal migrants, built in the deepest shadows of secrecy by the previous administration.

How quaint.

Behold the irony! The former Prime Minister, Mr. Orbán, declared—with the utmost solemnity—that such camps would never be built. Never. Under no circumstances. Not in a thousand years.

And yet.

On the twenty-first of August, while the public slept, a resolution was passed. A decree. A secret circular. The machinery of the state began to grind, preparing a facility in Vitned to house refugees from Transcarpathia.

They spent money. Much money.

Sixteen million dollars, to be precise. Vanished into the damp earth of Vitned. All while the European Court of Justice of the European Union looked on with a frown, levying a fine of one million euros per diem.

A steep price for a stubborn pride.

But alas, the play has ended. On the ninth of May, Mr. Orbán vacated the Prime Minister's chair—a seat he had occupied since the year of our Lord 2010. The National Assembly, in a flurry of parliamentary excitement, elected Mr. Madyar, the leader of the victorious 'Tisa' party, to steer the ship of state.

Thus we see the eternal dance of the bureaucrat: promising the public one thing, while the clerk in the back office signs a different paper entirely.

Pure theatre.

And the public, as always, is the last to know.