Hungary
Total 14 Posts
Why is Boris Johnson welcoming Hungary’s totalitarian PM Viktor Orbán?
4 min read
The populist leader, who needs to show to a domestic audience that he still matters internationally, will only be the second EU leader to be hosted at Number 10 by Boris Johnson since the UK left the EU.
How COVID-19 became a cover to reduce refugee rights.
5 min read
Some governments are using COVID-19 as an excuse to double down on border closures as well as using migration policy to demonstrate the robustness of their response to it.
Unrest in the US has prompted soul-searching in Europe.
5 min read
European figureheads have spoken out against Capitol rioters but also know they have problems in their own back yard.
Hungary to get a new university — from China. Here is why it matters and doesn’t.
2 min read
A Chinese University is planning to open a campus in Hungary, by 2024, weakening the country’s ties to its western allies.
Why businesses embrace populists and what to do about it – Lessons from Hungary.
5 min read
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
The ‘first safe country’ myth.
5 min read
With protests taking place against asylum seekers, and being the eternal optimist that I am, let’s try and fully address this whole thing about “first safe country” and why it has no basis in either law or reality, along with a couple of other things.
Distinguishing between ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’.
5 min read
What exactly do the words ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’ mean? Does it make sense to use them interchangeably, as is the case in the media?