Hungary

Under Orbán, Hungary seemed lost to the far right. But a new PM has shown how to pull a nation back from authoritarianism – and it’s working

Victor Orbán waged a war on science so fierce that it amounted to a political attack on knowledge itself. Now he’s gone, Hungary’s scientific recovery is a lesson for the world

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

The Brexit-bodging peer is reported to have been paid €43,000 via the Orbán regime-funded Danube Institute for his time as a visiting fellow

Péter Magyar has a huge challenge ahead of him to repair the catastrophic damage done to Hungary by Viktor Orbán. The first job is to clear out all of his corrupt cronies

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Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is over, but Magyar once had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. When the celebrations are over and reality returns, what kind of government will Hungary have?

The Reform rabble rouser gave a talk in Hungary the night after his hero Orbán last power - and displayed a strange understanding of how political parties work

He spent over a decade tearing up the rules of Hungarian politics and society, and became a model for the new authoritarian global right. And now he’s out, the country is overwhelmed with joy

The autocrat’s defeat is a blow to Trump, Putin - and populists like Nigel Farage

The former academic turned Reform rabble-rouser will today speak at an event for an Orbán-aligned pressure group in Budapest

The populist PM looks increasingly desperate, yet even a narrow loss in Sunday’s election would see his grip on the country’s institutions continue

The vice-president is railing at foreign government interfering in Hungary's election while telling the country to vote for Viktor Orbán

Even if he loses the general election, Orbán will retain his grip on the country’s institutions, which he has stacked with his placemen. That could spell disaster for whoever wins – and for Hungary

Miriam Cates, who lost her seat at the last election, has called on her party to get close to the authoritarian Hungarian

Very few athletes have had to endure what the Hungarian went through in order to compete for her country

The Conservative peer has chosen a strange place to pontificate on free speech and rail against the policing of social media posts

In his spellbinding novels, Hungary’s new Nobel laureate turns despair into resistance

With the government’s failing economic policies and rampant corruption, Magyar’s ascent is accelerating each day Orbán spends in office

Using the LGBTQ+ community as a punchbag is an age-old trick for Orbán but this time, the prime minister miscalculated

The short-lived former PM palled around with Hungary’s far-right leader and plugged a whiskey being launched by a convicted thug

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

The Japanese invasion of China, the D-day landings, the founding of Israel – no war was too small for Capa, no battlefield too bloody

Budapest endured Nazi rule, the Holocaust and then Stalin – how can anywhere recover from that?

Her young daughters grieving before a grave she didn’t occupy was not even the worst tribulation to afflict the life of the Hungarian

A rudderless EU ignored Trump’s threat and is now terrified and alone. It has two choices – go into overdrive or become irrelevant

EU institutions have got into the nasty habit of making concessions to populists who have spent their lives railing against Brussels

Ligeti’s rigorous antipathy to ideology was maintained throughout his life and extended way beyond his music

A new report by EMMA Association has highlighted the discrimination Romani women have faced after fleeing the war

Viktor Orbán’s support for Trump and Putin could give rise to a terrifying axis, and with it bring about the end of liberal democracy

A great writer travelled to Hungary, wrote a single book, and then disappeared. All she left behind was a masterpiece

More famous dancers would follow her lead but Nora Kovach was the first, the pioneer, arguably the bravest of them all