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Hungary’s Orban Proposes Referendum to Push Back Against E.U. on LGBTQ Law

Hungary's recent anti-LGBTQ law has sparked a furious reaction in the EU, including calls to cut off the nation’s funding

By Zoltan Simon / Bloomberg

EU Begins Legal Action Against Hungary Over its Anti-LGBTQ Law

Hungary’s Parliament last week approved legislation outlawing content for children that can be deemed to 'promote homosexuality.'

By Katharina Rosskopf and Nikos Chrysoloras / Bloomberg

Hungary Is Sliding Toward Authoritarianism. Can the Mayor of Budapest Save It?

Democracy is wilting in Hungary. Can Gergely Karacsony save it?

By Vivienne Walt/Budapest

A Children's Book Caught in Hungary’s Fight Over LGBT Rights

When Hungary’s Dorottya Redai and Boldizsar Nagy released their new children’s book on Sept. 21, they did not expect their initial run of 1,500 copies to sell out within two weeks. Meseorszag mindenkie, or A...

By Suyin Haynes

Hungary's Parliament Votes to End Legal Recognition of Trans People

Rights activists say the new law risks fueling further stigmatization of trans and intersex people

By Suyin Haynes

Hungarian Mayor Resigns Amid 'Yacht Orgy' Scandal

Mayor Zsolt Borkai's resignation is effective Friday

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Hungary's Far-Right Government Has Been Getting a Boost from President Trump Ahead of E.U. Elections

For months, the European Union's leaders have waged a fierce battle against Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. They have accused him of targeting minorities and opposition media, and threatened to withdraw Hungary's voting rights in...

By Vivienne Walt

Hungary’s Viktor Orban Widens the Division Between E.U. Liberals and Hard-Liners

Addressing Hungary's parliament on Sept. 17, Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused E.U. leaders of seeking to undermine the rights of member states to control their own borders, after the E.U. revealed plans to create a...

By Billy Perrigo

Democracy Isn't Perfect, But It Will Still Prevail

Mass migration, terrorism and economic woes are fueling authoritarians around the world. NATO's former Supreme Allied Commander on why government of, by and for the people will win again

By James Stavridis

Can Better Policies Solve the West's Population Crisis?

The EU's average birth rate is well below what's needed to sustain a population

By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson/Brussels

Hungary's Far Right Leader Is Going Nowhere—and Europe Should Be Worried

Viktor Orban and Fidesz, his party, won a landslide victory on April 8 that gives them a supermajority of seats in the country’s parliament. Polls underestimated the party’s support and turnout was higher than many...

By Ian Bremmer

Liberal Democracy Is Eroding Right In Europe's Backyard

Poland's president Andrzej Duda vetoed a bid on July 24 by the ruling Law and Justice Party that would have crippled rule of law in that country by stripping its highest court of its independence....

By Ian Bremmer

Poland Wants to Confine Asylum Seekers to 'Container Camps'

Proposed reforms are similar to an oft-criticized policy in Hungary

By Feliz Solomon

Viktor Orban Is Turning Hungary Into Europe's Black Sheep

On April 4, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban scored a victory in his campaign against Western-backed institutions and companies when the parliament gave him the O.K. to shutter Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. The...

By Ian Bremmer

This Small Hungarian Town Has Banned 'Gay Propaganda' to Become a Far-Right Refuge

It’s been two weeks since Anna Kiss was summoned to a police station in Szeged, a city in southern Hungary, and asked to rat on her friends. As she ardently tried to argue that a...

By Sally Hayden / Szeged, Hungary

Low Turnout in Hungary Vote, But High Passions Against E.U.

Though the turnout fell short of the legal minimum, Hungary's referendum was a reminder of the EU's vulnerability to the will of the people

By Simon Shuster
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