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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: HomeBudapest: thoughts on December 24
Government campaigns against the poor are nothing new in Hungary. But 2011 saw some unusual developments.
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Published in: HomeShould Brussels resist Hungary's ‘Putinization’? Or do EU member states have a ‘democratic over-ride’?
The Copenhagen criteria for EU accession set strict democratic pre-requisites for any country wishing to join the...
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Published in: HomeEurope’s other crisis: authoritarianism
Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, is busy creating a nightmarish "managed democracy" while Europe has its gaze...
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Published in: HomeBolts from the blue: method and madness in the West
The Norwegian massacre and the gun attack on a US congresswoman were both dismissed as the work of deranged loners....
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Published in: HomeHungary’s choices one year on: in the land of ‘Revolutionary Voting Booths’
The EU has to deal with a government that came to power democratically and uses its power to dismantle the...
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Published in: HomeAfter CopenhagenThere is a vital need, for the sake of the future, for new forms of collective action to combine feeling with...
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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...
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Published in: HomeDirty hands
In the passing of MF Hussain, there is more to be mourned than the death of an Indian artist in exile. Nor is this...
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Published in: HomeEast European Geographobia
There are particularities of fear in a post-communist Europe bewildered by the demands of neoliberalism, which also...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...
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Published in: HomeHungary: a draconian media law
New restrictions on Hungarian media threaten to undermine freedom of expression, the lifeblood of democracy. Fears...
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Published in: HomeHungary's media: the reform trap
The Hungarian government's infringements of media freedom demand to be addressed by Europe as an issue of...
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Published in: HomeHungary's new media law shows contempt for democracy, the separation of powers and core European ideals
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is no believer in democracy. “The republic,” he said in 2006, “is merely...
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Published in: HomeHungary’s election, and Viktor Orbán’s choice
The decisive victory of Hungary’s centre-right - and the advance of the extreme right - presents the mercurial...
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