Archivos de Categoría: Hungría

Hungary (1): Viktor Orban Wades into Hungary’s Dark Waters

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Foreign Policy, 26.10.2015
James Traub, fellow del Centro Internacional de Cooperación
  • For a preview of what could happen if right-wing parties take over Europe, look east -- to Budapest.
A specter is haunting Europe — the spirit of reactionary populism. Xenophobic parties are deeply entrenched in the politics of such staunchly democratic nations as France and Holland; but...
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Hungary (2): The Fearmonger of Budapest

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Foreign Policy, 27.10.2015
James Traub, fellow del Centro Internacional de Cooperación
  • Viktor Orban has taken a people already wary of outsiders and whipped them into an anti-immigrant frenzy.
The European response to the refugee crisis that escalated this August has two poles: Germany’s Angela Merkel and Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Merkel has consistently maintained that the immense flow of...
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Hungary (3): Hungary’s 500-Year-Old Victim Complex

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Foreign Policy, 28.10.2015
James Traub, fellow del Centro Internacional de Cooperación
  • From the Habsburgs to Hitler, Hungarians have always viewed themselves as at the mercy of history. Is that why they love their strongman prime minister?
In the summer of 2014, a bronze statue suddenly appeared in Szabadsag Square in Budapest, a few blocks from the parliament. The...
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