Viktor Orban, like European populists in general, is neither of the right nor the left. He is a child of both.

Right-wing discourse in Hungarian politics is matched by the government’s regressive handling of gender issues, as...

Hungary is obviously moving towards autocracy. But we have to ask ourselves two questions. Would it be useful for...

What has led Hungary down the path of an 'illiberal democracy', and how can a potential crisis within the EU be averted?

Hungary’s Fidesz government may not have pursued a state-sponsored policy of anti-Semitism. However, it has indulged...

Fidesz does not have any coherent ideology, but depending on the context, employs elements of various currents,...

Why did the police not take the investigation seriously at first? Why did the political elite need six victims to...

Viktor Orbán is a perfect populist who exploits the chameleon nature of populism like no other, from radical...

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has openly vowed to turn the country into an ‘illiberal state’. Europe cannot let this happen.

The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, sent a frisson across the EU with his boast last weekend that he is...

In 2008 and 2009, a group of Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of vicious attacks on members of the...

Hungarian nationalists have been trying to promote the idea that we are an "ethnically homogenous" people - an idea...

Scepticism is healthy for democracy, but not when it degenerates into belief in conspiracy theories. Dieudonné and...

The only electoral promise Fidesz has fulfilled has been the “restoration of order”, through a myriad of laws,...

The EU is becoming increasingly involved in policy areas that many consider the holy grail of national sovereignty....

The drastic higher education reforms the Hungarian government has introduced in the last months of 2012 have sparked...

Collusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...

Confrontation takes creative and alternative forms in the street demonstrations, which may appear, at first sight,...