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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fighting the wrong battle: Central Europe’s crisis is one of liberal democracy, not migration
The hostile response of central and eastern European heads of states to the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"The fence must go!" - reflections on the meaning of Europe's most recent fortifications in Hungary
25 years ago, a fence in Hungary made history. Today a new fence in the country is also making history - but for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary’s refugee policy: fencing off the country
The rapidly increasing influx of asylum-seekers poses a huge challenge to Hungary. The government responds with a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary's future: anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism and anti-Roma?
Hungary’s prime minister believes Hungary cannot cope with immigration as it has no experience of ‘multiculturalism’...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We are not anti-Greeks”: the need for a return of solidarity to eastern Europe
“Greece hasn’t even dreamt about what Slovakia had to go through, what does it mean to carry out real reforms and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration crisis: central Europe’s dangerous game
Should a serious migration crisis erupt as a result of conflict escalation in Ukraine, the odds are that the V4...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Viktor Orban and the rise of the populist right...right?
Viktor Orban, like European populists in general, is neither of the right nor the left. He is a child of both.
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Published in: 50.50"It takes broken bones": authoritarianism and violence against women in Hungary
Right-wing discourse in Hungarian politics is matched by the government’s regressive handling of gender issues, as...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary: ruling in the guise of democracy
After 1989, within two decades, the hitherto ‘dormant’ authoritarian, leader-worshipping, order-obsessed right-wing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When the European moral vacuum meets Hungary’s autocratic regime
Hungary is obviously moving towards autocracy. But we have to ask ourselves two questions. Would it be useful for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How Hungary can be led back to the path of liberal democracy
What 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?Hungary's Fidesz and its 'Jewish Question'
Hungary’s Fidesz government may not have pursued a state-sponsored policy of anti-Semitism. However, it has indulged...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brave new Hungary
Fidesz does not have any coherent ideology, but depending on the context, employs elements of various currents,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On Roma murders in Hungary
Why did the police not take the investigation seriously at first? Why did the political elite need six victims to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?More Hungarys in eastern Europe?
Viktor Orbán is a perfect populist who exploits the chameleon nature of populism like no other, from radical...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungarian despotism: Europe must act
Hungarian 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: openSecuritySlow and steady: Hungary’s media clampdown
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, sent a frisson across the EU with his boast last weekend that he is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Struggle, dissent and debate: politics and memory in Europe
Especially in some European countries, dealing with the dark sides of one’s history has become a significant topos....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Judgment in Hungary
In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of vicious attacks on members of the...
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Published in: TransformationDemand homes not jails: queer homelessness is being criminalized
Cities globally are starting to criminalize homelessness: banning begging and making free food provision illegal. I...