Hungary News & Analysis

Italy’s new prime minister will likely push a softer Euroscepticism that focuses on what Europe can realistically achieve by granting more powers to national governments.

What Prime Minister Viktor Orbán terms ‘illiberal democracy’ is starting to look a lot like blatant authoritarianism.

Early vaccine euphoria is fading as policymakers grapple with resurgent COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe and North America.

With Brexit now in the past, what will the future hold for the European Union?

The EU’s COVID-19 response fund may be historic, but will it be money well spent?

It’s time to secure the autonomous rights of Hungarian minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.

In the words of Romanian poet Mihai Eminsecu: “The light is on for those who see, not for the blind ones.”

The EU is debating legislation that would freeze funding for member states that are backsliding on democratic norms. But will it come at the cost of widening the bloc’s internal divisions?

Homeless people are the new migrants in Hungary, at least so far as political stigmatization is concerned.

Some accuse Hungary of standing in the way of greater NATO-Ukraine integration; but in fact, Budapest is standing up for the principles of the Alliance.

Orban’s resounding election victory in Hungary and Macron’s “civil war” speech at the European Parliament reveal the widening rift between two competing visions of the EU’s future.

Viktor Orbán’s decisive election victory sets the stage for a long-delayed East-West battle over what lies at the heart of the European Union.

For a microcosm for how civil society is threatened throughout the world, look no further than Hungary.

Hungary has no real choice in its upcoming referendum and is likely to remain the black sheep country of the European Union.

Looking back on a personal history bridging two unlikely partners: Indonesia and Hungary.