The satirical opposition group has failed to enter the Hungarian parliament, but it has scored a victory of sorts.
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A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
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.
The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
Democracy takes many forms, some of them democracy in name only. Confusion and misappropriation complicate the public struggle for the democracy to come, but this challenge is always unending.
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
Politicians are promising to advance their countries’ international positions through nationalist militarisation and celebration of virile men.
Prime minister Viktor Orbán is quite open about his goal to build an ‘illiberal state’.
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”.
A bastion of liberal values in an illiberal climate.
A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
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.
Hungary is to begin detaining asylum seekers in camps made of shipping containers.
An influx of people seeking shelter from conflict has sharpened attitudes against groups which have been in Europe for centuries.
What do border walls cost? And do they work?
After the Hungarian referendum, a new spectre is haunting the EU: Victor Orban.
The war on reproductive rights in Central Europe is not a backlash but a key tenet of a new illiberal form of governance.
The prime minister has claimed victory in the referendum, despite the low turnout.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has caught referendum fever. He is giving his public a vote on refugee policy in what is being seen as a two-fingered salute to the EU.
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University
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Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University
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Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Glasgow
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of comparitive politics, Georgetown University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, Boise State University
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Director of Migration Studies Programme, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Cultural and Political Sociologist, Université de Liège