Blaming citizens for their alleged populist or anti-democratic turn is misleading. Without the active involvement of the economic elite, both foreign and domestic, authoritarian capitalism could not have emerged in Hungary.
The populists’ new power game – in which Orbán is a more advanced player than Trump – is aimed at shaping the collective perception of the popular majority. It can go wrong.
One 1941 law passed under the ultra-nationalist and Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy banned all forms of sexual intercourse between Jews and Gentiles in the name of ethnic purity.
Orbán’s anti-Brussels rhetoric never contains any hint of Huxit; he would have too much to lose. But it affects the community of law that underpins the EU.
As Viktor Orbán's Hungary faces its 2 October referendum on European migrant quotas, diverse opinion is being silenced through partisan cultural funding.
Their policies would have been ‘toxic’ a few years ago, so what is it about these provocative politicians that’s stirring up voters?
A sentiment shared by many Hungarians worried about the government’s xenophobic campaign is summarized by the poster that says, “Sorry about our Prime Minister.”
Why are the leaders of Hungary and Bavaria meeting up for talks in a German monastery?
Viktor Orban, like European populists in general, is neither of the right nor the left. He is a child of both.
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, sent a frisson across the EU with his boast last weekend that he is building a “non-liberal” state, like in China, Russia or Turkey, free of “western European dogma”—but then his steady destruction of liberty in Hungary has gone largely unchallenged.
The decisive victory of Hungary’s centre-right - and the advance of the extreme right - presents the mercurial Viktor Orbán with a singular test of political character, says Anton Pelinka.
Who and what is Viktor Orbán, the still youthful but now after his narrow election defeat to the Socialist Party candidate, Peter Medgyessy ex-prime minister of Hungary?
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