We now know the identity of the candidate Hungary’s opposition is hoping will be able to topple Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a parliamentary election next year: Péter Márki-Zay, the mayor of Hódmezővásárhely. A political outsider with no...
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Hungary’s opposition parties will on October 10 choose a single challenger to take on Viktor Orbán in next year’s parliamentary elections. Last month, six...
Pope Francis will arrive in Budapest on September 12, the first leg of a short tour of Hungary and Slovakia. But he’s only staying a few hours. Will he...
Angela Merkel’s retirement from frontline politics presents a huge opportunity for a charismatic, pragmatic and consensus-focused leader from Central and Eastern...
The populist American far-right political commentator Tucker Carlson recently visited Hungary in a public show of support for the country’s prime minister, Viktor...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s largest political grouping gave up efforts to lead a minority government on Tuesday following a razor-thin victory in last month’s...
Enough of the silliness. Neither Poland nor Hungary will ever leave the European Union. Nor, as we have explained on numerous occasions, can they be kicked out. It’s...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe The Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek, has said the government is looking at ways...
Viktor Orbán’s government has intensified its crusade against the LGBT+ community within the last year ignoring the growing public acceptance of LGBT+ people...
The governments of Hungary and Azerbaijan have been implicated in the alleged hacking of phones belonging to investigative journalists and opposition-affiliated...
