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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A shrinking space: media capture in Orbán’s Hungary
The demise of a once thriving independent broadcaster is yet another signpost in Hungary's deteriorating democracy...
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Published in: HomeInsights from Hungary to beat Trumpism
Three pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A century after the Trianon Treaty: perceptions of Hungary in Serbia and Croatia
For a decade, Viktor Orbán has shifted the lens of the Hungarian government’s grievances from the neighbouring...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'
The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise and fall of Jobbik
Tracing the Jekyll and Hyde relations of the two largest parties in the Hungarian parliament.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe philosophy of Orbán’s misguided Christian friends
Eminent conservative Christian intellectuals in the west look to new illiberal regimes for succour. Their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free European cities in democratic alliance
Meet Zdeněk Hřib, the mayor who challenged Russia, China, and the V4. Interview.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Chronicles of culturological quackery
The concept of culture as a 'driver of societies' that has become the lucky charm of nationalists, has its origins...
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Published in: HomeHow the Greens won Budapest
Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party seemed unbeatable until a progressive breakthrough at the Budapest mayoral elections.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enduring the deep-rooted racialization of Roma
When Orban describes challenging segregation as a violation of “the people’s sense of justice”: where is the...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionDid the Hungarian local elections break polarisation and extremism?
Hungary’s recent elections mark a breakthrough: the paralysing myth of Fidesz’s invincibility has been shattered.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Right-wing authoritarianism in Britain: lessons from Hungary and Poland
Britain is hardly living in splendid isolation. It has much to learn from several other European countries.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Visegradism, Babišism and selfishness as a political programme
Selfishness as a programme: that is the essence of the approach of politicians such as Babiš, Orbán and Kaczyński.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The next one hundred years – a salute for Agnes Heller
It is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.
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Published in: HomeFresh evidence of Hungary vote-rigging raises concerns of fraud in European elections
Controversial prime minister Viktor Orbán narrowly won a supermajority last year. Now counting officers allege...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat dam collapses in Europe can tell Brazil
The changes in environmental legalisation to hold the companies accountable is one of the lessons from the European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Hungarian paradigm shift: how right-wing are Fidesz supporters?
It is clear that the Fidesz government is truly what the Hungarian people desire, their success not simply a matter...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The double standards applied to academic freedom
The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe stories fascist Europe tells itself, and how to correct them
What can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKálmán Sütö and his struggle against Hungarian dictatorship
A street magazine vendor led protests against prime minister Victor Orbán’s rewriting of history. He tells...