There are particularities of fear in a post-communist Europe bewildered by the demands of neoliberalism, which also tap into a legacy of aversion matured during Communism.
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic, nativist, and chauvinistic beliefs, embedded - explicitly or coded - in common sense appeals to a presupposed shared knowledge of ‘the people’.
The Hungarian government's infringements of media freedom demand to be addressed by Europe as an issue of fundamental democratic values, says Darian Pavli.
The decisive victory of Hungary’s centre-right - and the advance of the extreme right - presents the mercurial Viktor Orbán with a singular test of political character, says Anton Pelinka.
Who and what is Viktor Orbán, the still youthful but now after his narrow election defeat to the Socialist Party candidate, Peter Medgyessy ex-prime minister of Hungary?
The British
The general election that has now begun in Hungary has received little attention in the media outside the country. Yet it is highly significant not merely for the Hungarians but