Tag: Hungary

Budapest Dreams

By Dan Nexon

In hungary

On March 30, 2020

So the Hungarian parliament just gave dictatorial power to everyone’s favorite example of democratic backsliding, Victor Orbán. Hungary’s parliament handed Prime Minister Viktor Orban the right to rule by decree indefinitely, effectively putting the European Union democracy under his sole command for as long as he sees fit. While governments around the world assume emergency powers to […]

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“A Dark Day for Hungary”

By Melissa Byrnes

On December 3, 2018

It has been twenty months since Viktor Orban’s Fidesz government launched their legislative attack on Central European University. Today, CEU officially announced that it will move all US-accred

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Fascists Love Misogyny

By Erik Loomis

On August 12, 2018

The Trump of central Europe, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, acts like you would expect, like all the fascists do, when it comes to women. The number of students impacted by the ban is small–only 11 a

No Victory in Europe

By Melissa Byrnes

In General

On June 7, 2018

Trump’s Europe policy is a mess. First, there’s this. And I thought our Ambassador’s enthusiasm for empowering the German right-wing had set a new low in historical understanding… Once you get past these public displays of ignorance, Thomas Wright has a worthwhile read over at the Atlantic that highlights the Trump administration’s shift to promote […]

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The War on Knowledge

By Melissa Byrnes

On March 29, 2017

The Hungarian government is trying to close down Central European University (CEU), an American-accredited university in Budapest founded by George Soros in 1991 to support intellectual freedom and fr