Wie überlebensfähig sind Europas Demokratien unter dem Druck autokratischer Weltmächte? Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Anne Applebaum über Trumps Emotionen, Putins Wahnhaftigkeit und die Stärke der Europäer.
Péter Magyar hails ‘end of propaganda broadcasts’ as Kossuth radio and M1 TV channels suspend transmission
Hungarian public media outlets close to Viktor Orbán have suspended broadcasting, the country’s prime minister said as he hailed efforts to dismantle the longtime nationalist leader’s control over information.
Péter Magyar, who ousted Orbán in a landslide election victory in April, wrote on Facebook: “A historic day. Today marks the end of propaganda broadcasts on public media platforms. They lied at night, they lied during the day, they lied on every wavelength. That is now over.”
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© Photograph: Márton Mónus/Reuters
© Photograph: Márton Mónus/Reuters
Haben die Ungarn wirklich die Populisten besiegt? Márton Gergely, Chefredakteur des unabhängigen Magazins HVG, über die Widersprüche Péter Magyars und sein Fremdeln damit, dass ein Teil der Gesellschaft jetzt so heiter jubelt.
MCC Brussels received lavish funding from Budapest, but Hungary’s new PM is launching an investigation
Under glittering chandeliers in a neoclassical ballroom, guests took their seats. It was 10am and scores of people had gathered at a private members’ club in Brussels for a conference to mark 250 years of American independence, organised by Viktor Orbán’s favourite thinktank in the EU capital, MCC Brussels.
Opening the one-day event, the MCC director, Frank Furedi, said the 250th anniversary had “really escaped the attention of a European audience” in a speech that lauded the founding fathers before launching a sweeping attack on Europe’s “incompetent political class”.
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© Photograph: Jennifer Rankin
Das liberale Budapest wurde lange von Orbán drangsaliert. Besonders stark war der ultrakonservative Druck auf die LGBTQ-Community. Jetzt schöpfen viele Hoffnung. Doch auch mit der neuen Regierung könnte es Konflikte geben.
Das Parlament in Budapest beschließt: Wer mehr als acht Jahre regiert hat, darf kein Ministerpräsident mehr werden. Das gilt für den Langzeit-Premier Orbán, aber auch für seinen Nachfolger Magyar.
Ungarns Regierungschef Magyar will Staatspräsident Sulyok aus dem Amt jagen, weil dieser den antidemokratischen Kurs seines Vorgängers geduldet habe. Der Machtkampf ist eröffnet.
New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity
In a dimly lit television studio, one of Hungary’s richest men is on the verge of tears. It is early May, weeks after the general election that ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power, and the advertising mogul Gyula Balásy has an announcement to make.
Balásy tells the interviewer that he has just surrendered his businesses to the state, along with a chunk of his private savings. He has even brought along a notarised deed – a legal document setting out the change of ownership.
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© Photograph: János Kummer/Getty Images
Ein Comeback der FDP ist möglich, sagt der Politikberater Josef Lentsch. Die Partei braucht dafür Disziplin und Leidensfähigkeit – und kann sich einiges von anderen Parteien abschauen.
Decision comes as police announce policy U-turn to allow Pride parade to take place in Budapest
The EU is to release more than €16bn to Hungary that had been frozen under the rule of Viktor Orbán, with Ursula von der Leyen hailing the “winds of change” in the country since the election of Péter Magyar last month.
The decision, described as a “historic breakthrough” by the new prime minister, comes as police in Hungary have said they will allow next month’s Pride parade in Budapest to take place. Last year they sought to block the event on the orders of the government of the rightwing Orbán.
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Ungarns neuer Premier muss rasch Reformen durchsetzen, um gesperrte EU-Milliarden zu erhalten. Kommissionschefin von der Leyen kommt ihm entgegen.
Rauschhaft hat Ungarn im April den Sturz Viktor Orbáns gefeiert. Doch lässt sich das alte System so schnell abschütteln? Reise durch ein Land, das gerade versucht, sich die Demokratie zurückzuholen.
Since Péter Magyar’s election victory he has vowed to reverse withdrawal from court before it took effect
Lawmakers in Hungary have voted overwhelmingly for the country to remain a member of the international criminal court, reversing a decision made by the previous government of Viktor Orbán.
Wednesday’s vote came days before the country was poised to become the only EU member state not to recognise the jurisdiction of the global tribunal, which aims to prosecute those accused of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Péter Magyar’s draft amendment would prevent his predecessor from returning to the role
Hungary’s new government, led by Péter Magyar, has put forward a constitutional amendment that would limit prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office, in effect barring Viktor Orbán from returning to the role.
The draft amendment was submitted on Wednesday, just over a week after the new government took office. It marked Magyar and his Tisza party’s first step in dismantling a constitution that was unilaterally rewritten and amended more than a dozen times as Orbán and his Fidesz party worked to turn Hungary into what they called a “petri dish for illiberalism”.
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