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A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán speaks on March 15 in Budapest. He’s running for reelection.
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This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
Viktor Orbán.
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Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
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Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel campaigns in front of a banner that reads: ‘Crime by immigration: a flood of refugees leaves its mark!’
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Current events show that the old problem of populism is making a comeback, and that populism is indeed an autoimmune disease of our age of monitory democracy.
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Generations of Germans have worked to create a positive national identity based on difficult self-reckoning with the Nazi era. The recent election attacks that progress.
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Prime minister Viktor Orbán is quite open about his goal to build an ‘illiberal state’.
Donald Trump constantly invoked the idea of political correctness gone mad in his presidential campaign.
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Populist leaders not only attack the institutions of global capital, they also disregard the checks and balances of institutional democracy.
Protestors hold banners saying ‘No to the stigmatisation of civilians’ at a meeting of the Hungarian parliament’s justice committee, prior to the bill’s approval.
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES (UPDATED) Hungary has passed a law monitoring the finances of foreign-funded NGOs, another blow to civil society in Viktor Orban’s increasingly “illiberal democracy”.
People protest against the bill that would undermine Central European University in Budapest.
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A bastion of liberal values in an illiberal climate.
A rally protests against a new law that could force the Soros-founded Central European University out of Hungary.
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The Central European University will challenge a law just passed by the Hungarian parliament that could force the closure of the school founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
A second line of fencing being constructed on the Serbian/Hungarian border in early March 2017.
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Hungary is to begin detaining asylum seekers in camps made of shipping containers.
Could neo-nationalist leaders join hands across the world? Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Narendra Modi (India) in Goa, 2016.
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Proponents of inward-looking politics have demonstrated an impressive capacity to exploit the globalisation of the political sphere.
Can Europe prove that it’s capable of finding energy in its contradictions and differences and reinvent itself as a place the whole world respects?
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According to German public intellectual Claus Offe, Europe faces multiple crises but is not down and out yet.
Donald Trump raises his fist after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States
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The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Warsaw, Poland on Jan. 11, 2017.
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An historian based in Poland sees many similarities between Trump and authoritarian nationalists like Poland’s Jarosław Kaczyński. But the parallels only go so far.
Nationalist protests will be more welcome than anti-government protests from now on.
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Poland’s women may have won the abortion battle, but the ruling Law and Justice Party is cracking down on dissent elsewhere.
Migrants in Belgrade try to make it into Hungary in early October.
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After the Hungarian referendum, a new spectre is haunting the EU: Victor Orban.
Women face an uphill battle to fight for their rights under illiberal regimes.
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The war on reproductive rights in Central Europe is not a backlash but a key tenet of a new illiberal form of governance.
Viktor Orbán speaks in Budapest after the Hungary referendum result.
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The prime minister has claimed victory in the referendum, despite the low turnout.