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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fairy-tales in illiberal times: Hungary, George Soros and the politics of conspiracyThe Hungarian government has been using a politics of conspiracy to disempower its citizens and to divert attention...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How Hungary can be led back to the path of liberal democracyWhat has led Hungary down the path of an 'illiberal democracy', and how can a potential crisis within the EU be averted?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungarian despotism: Europe must actHungarian PM Viktor Orban has openly vowed to turn the country into an ‘illiberal state’. Europe cannot let this happen.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The ‘laboratory’ called Hungary: a challenge for understanding protest movementsThere is a central Hungarian political paradox: it is the conservative governing party (FIDESZ) which has made...
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Published in: HomeRoma inclusion in 2012: no respite in prejudiceDoes the EU deserve its Nobel Peace Prize? 2013 is the European Year of Citizens, dedicated to the rights that come...
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Published in: HomeIs Hungarian national heritage doomed?Amid nationalist resurgence and severe recession in Hungary, many observers fear that the reforms undertaken by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary: the vanguard of Europe’s rearguard?Confrontation takes creative and alternative forms in the street demonstrations, which may appear, at first sight,...
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Published in: HomeMyths of history, Euro-scepticism and fundamental rights
If we want to develop effective co-operation within and among the member states of the EU, history should be kept at...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in Hungary: the defence of Fidesz
The author seeks a right to reply to the three recent anti-Fidesz articles carried by openDemocracy (by Anton...
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Published in: HomeThe voice of liberal democracy needs to be preserved in Hungary
When the Media Law of the authoritarian Hungarian government meets with strident criticism in the free press of the...
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Published in: HomeHungary's struggles for freedom and democracyThe greatest concern with regard to EU criticism aimed at influencing the political course of Hungary is that...
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Published in: HomeSpeaking with double tongues: what’s gone wrong in Hungary?
Now whoever asks a question is arrogantly refused the moral right of posing the question at all, and is actually...
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Published in: HomeHungary: democracy through twilight
The sweeping reform programme of Viktor Orbán's Hungarian government is provoking alarm among its domestic critics...
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Published in: HomeHow to understand Hungary
The portrayal of Hungary and its current government by the international media and external actors is one-sided and...
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Published in: HomeHungary: democracy crisis, diagnosis and appeal
The government of Hungary led by Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party is alarming many by its establishment of...
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Published in: HomeThe Hungarian model of democracy
The Fidesz party claimed it would reverse diminishing trust toward politicians. But did the Hungarian people, or the...
