John Foster / 11 May 2020
Poor and Poorer
Coronavirus and the EU
The term “crisis” is applied all too freely in politics and journalism. It has become a common designation for the Coronavirus outbreak as well. (...)
Hungary
Maxim Edwards / 08 Apr 2020
The Coronavirus Dictatorship Plan
Orbán’s Viral Gambit
As Hungary gets to grips with fighting the coronavirus pandemic, strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in the spotlight of another international scandal. (...)
Ernst Stetter / 03 Apr 2020
Collective Resilience
Lessons From the Coronavirus Crisis
The end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight. Coronavirus continues to infect the globe. (...)
Johannes Simon / 13 May 2019
Too Much Money in Hungary
Germany’s Orbán Problem
European politics makes strange bedfellows. Take the European People’s Party (EPP), for example, the coalition of centre-right parties, which has good chances of winning the highest share of votes in the upcoming EU elections.(...)
The Battleground / 10 May 2019
The God That Survived
Identity Politics in ex-Soviet Europe
Few areas of news coverage are as new to religion as it is to Europe. Particularly for journalists from the United States and the Middle East, where faith and politics are ineluctably intertwined.(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 29 Apr 2019
Pinkwashing Fascism
Alternative für Deutschland and the Gay Right
In 1934, in the infamous Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler ordered the liquidation of the entire leadership of the paramilitary SA, led by Hitler’s one-time second-in-command Ernst Röhm.(...)
Armin Langer / 13 Mar 2019
Dog-Whistle Antisemitism
The War on George Soros
The European People’s Party (EPP) has initiated a process that could remove Hungary’s governing Fidesz from the centre-right group. Twelve member parties requested the step, which will be voted on next week. “Viktor Orbán has crossed the red line,” said EPP President Joseph Daul.(...)