Jan 11, 2019 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has transformed from a liberal into an authoritarian leader who uses the tools of democracy to attack civil society. Hungarians are protesting in the...

Sep 13, 2018 · It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary. A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America.

Mar 7, 2024 · Hungarian leader and strongman Viktor Orbán, who presided over the radical decline of democracy in his country, is scheduled to meet with former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive GOP...

4 days ago · Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) ... The European Union has withheld billions in funding to Hungary over its violations of rule-of-law and democracy standards and its failure to address deficiencies in judicial independence ...

Dec 6, 2024 · Two new books grant us vivid insight into Hungary’s descent into dictatorship—a feat pulled off so skillfully by Prime Minister Viktor Orban that it inspires awe—and uncover the mechanisms ...

On 3 April 2022, Viktor Orbán won his fourth straight election with his fourth straight supermajority in parliament that allows him to amend the constitution at will. This essay traces how he managed to do that.

Feb 13, 2024 · Since 2010, he has transformed Hungary into what the European Parliament has denounced as a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy". He appears uncertain how to describe his own invention, trying...

Aug 29, 2019 · Hungary’s communists might have been relieved if a free-thinking law student named Viktor Orban had gone off to Oxford and stayed there, ideally on Mr Soros’s dime.

Mar 31, 2022 · Orban has transformed Hungary's media landscape, which has led to accusations of curbing media freedoms from the European Union and pro-democracy groups, a charge his government denies.

Sep 16, 2022 · Hungarian civil liberties groups have welcomed a new EU report that says the country cannot be considered a full democracy. The EU parliament voted to approve the report on Thursday, which...