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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 HungaryRight-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?When the European moral vacuum meets Hungary’s autocratic regimeHungary 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 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?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 HungaryFidesz 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 HungaryWhy 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 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: openSecuritySlow and steady: Hungary’s media clampdownThe 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?Judgment in HungaryIn 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: Can Europe Make It?The paradox of ethnic homogeneity - a Hungarian exampleHungarian nationalists have been trying to promote the idea that we are an "ethnically homogenous" people - an idea...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The conspiratorial mindset in EuropeScepticism is healthy for democracy, but not when it degenerates into belief in conspiracy theories. Dieudonné and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Winter chill over Hungary’s autumnThe only electoral promise Fidesz has fulfilled has been the “restoration of order”, through a myriad of laws,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Preventing more Hungarys – a stronger human rights architecture for the EU
The EU is becoming increasingly involved in policy areas that many consider the holy grail of national sovereignty....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Higher education under threat in HungaryThe drastic higher education reforms the Hungarian government has introduced in the last months of 2012 have sparked...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern EuropeCollusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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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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