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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHungary’s homophobic referendum failed. But its anti-LGBTIQ war goes onIt’ll take more than spoiled votes to defeat Viktor Orbán’s policies – although it’s a great start
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured podState capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhy do Hungary’s climate change-fearing voters keep electing Viktor Orbán?In a country that’s dangerously susceptible to heatwaves and droughts, there is growing anxiety over the climate crisis
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Euros haven’t started, but Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is already a winnerThe far-Right Fidesz government has invested heavily in football to consolidate its power. But is change on the way?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhat Boris Johnson’s new allies tell us about ‘Global Britain’
Welcome to the future, where a state of fewer than ten million people, led by a kleptocrat who described migrants as...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: FeatureHow right-wing populists use food to legitimise their extreme views‘Getting breakfast done’: Italian strawberries, Hungarian pickles and a pint of English beer are all part of the...
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Published in: HomeFresh evidence of Hungary vote-rigging raises concerns of fraud in European electionsControversial prime minister Viktor Orbán narrowly won a supermajority last year. Now counting officers allege...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Will Salvini copy Orbán in the fight against NGOs?Italian Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini, admirer of Orbán, has harshly criticized NGOs whose ships save migrants...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding the rise of Orbán: a lesson for western democracies in crisisCapitalism without oversight has the inherent possibility to destroy democracy – no matter how long it has been...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary’s regime is proof that capitalism can be deeply authoritarianBlaming citizens for their alleged populist or anti-democratic turn is misleading. Without the active involvement of...
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Published in: HomeThe populist valuation bubble: a shock loss for Orbán and its lessons for democratsThe populists’ new power game – in which Orbán is a more advanced player than Trump – is aimed at shaping the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Orban regime takes Horthy’s Hungary as an exampleOne 1941 law passed under the ultra-nationalist and Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy banned all forms of sexual...
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Published in: HomeThe long reach of Orbán’s referendum experimentOrbán’s anti-Brussels rhetoric never contains any hint of Huxit; he would have too much to lose. But it affects the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The creeping cull of cultural diversity in Orbán's HungaryAs Viktor Orbán's Hungary faces its 2 October referendum on European migrant quotas, diverse opinion is being...
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Published in: HomeDonald Trump to Viktor Orbán: What's the appeal of ‘respectable extremists’?Their policies would have been ‘toxic’ a few years ago, so what is it about these provocative politicians that’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Do you agree?” Orbán’s dangerous waltz with the radical rightA sentiment shared by many Hungarians worried about the government’s xenophobic campaign is summarized by the poster...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Orbán, Seehofer and the anti-immigration linkWhy are the leaders of Hungary and Bavaria meeting up for talks in a German monastery?
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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: 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: HomeHungary’s election, and Viktor Orbán’s choiceThe decisive victory of Hungary’s centre-right - and the advance of the extreme right - presents the mercurial...
