Hungary

The story of how people won back individual democratic rights from illiberal governments and designed institutions that would protect them for good.

Réka Kinga Papp discusses women’s rights in Hungary under Orbán’s illiberal regime and its pro-family policies.

The long-overdue triggering of Article 7 is one of the EU’s last shots at saving rule of law in Hungary and across Europe.

In Viktor Orbán’s self-styled illiberal democracy, power is maintained through patronage and cronyism built around public jobs and EU money.

Since October 2018, it has been illegal to live in the street in Hungary. Social anthropologist and housing rights activist Tessza Udvarhelyi explains why homeless people are such an easy target for populist politicians, and how the newest measures humiliate those who cannot afford a place to live.

An interview with social movements researcher Agnes Gagyi on the solidarity economy in Romania and Hungary.

An interview examining the driving forces and effects of changing attitudes to migration in Hungary.

What does the future of the EU look like from Southern and Eastern Europe?

With authoritarian populism on the rise, liberal democracy in Europe is facing an existential crisis. In this interview, Yascha Mounk, author of The People vs. Democracy, hashes out the conundrum facing democracies old and new.

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz were delivered to victory by an unfair system, media manipulation, and attacking their enemies. Opposition failure made it too easy for them.