Hungary
Total 11 Posts
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?
The Post-COVID world: Dragging the State back into public services.
7 min read
There is no automatic return to neo-liberal normalcy or US hegemony after the virus has worked its way through world politics.
Hungary is now an autocracy without adjectives.
3 min read
An interesting thread by Garvan Walshe on why Hungary enacting its Enabling Act during the coronavirus crisis is a serious miscalculation by the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Is democracy really dying a slow, agonising death?
3 min read
It’s fashionable these days for commentators to lament the lingering death of democracy. It’s being strangled long and slow, so the narrative goes. How?