Viktor Orban
Total 14 Posts
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?
The New Right: How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump.
13 min read
We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
What is populism – and why is it so hard to define?
5 min read
It’s a slippery concept but academics have reached agreement on some of its fundamental elements.
The ‘Orbanisation’ of India? Before that, there was the ‘Modi-fication’ of Hungary.
2 min read
Rashmee Roshan Lall compares Narendra Modi’s India with Viktor Orban’s Hungary. It is a scary thought.
A legitimating moment for European bigotry?
4 min read
Opinion polls indicate a surge in support for the far-right ahead of the elections, which could make it the second largest force in the European Parliament with up to 35% of all seats.