Hungary’s parlia­mentary elections of 12 April marked a clear end to the 16-year rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party, a period that will be recorded as the first attempt to establish an illiberal, semi-author­i­tarian regime within the European Union. Daniel Hegedüs, Deputy Director at the Institute for European Politics (IEP), analyzes what Péter Magyar’s victory means for Europe.

Just a day after the first videos of the Bucha massacre were posted to social media, on 3 April 2022, Hungary’s FIDESZ-Christian Democ­ratic alliance won its fourth consec­utive landslide victory with 54,10%,...

The elections on April 8, 2018 gave Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party another two-thirds majority in parliament. Attila Juhasz explains why this does not imply a broad support for the concept of ‘illib­erale democracy’. The hungarian...

The anti-liberal revolt ist not limited to the US and Europe. Tendencies towards an ‘illiberal democracy’ and ethnic nation­alism can be observed in Israel as well. The Israeli author Dahlia...