Cooked Frog
David Edgar: Orbán’s Hungary, 7 March 2024
Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary
by Zsuzsanna Szelényi.
Hurst, 438 pp., £25, November 2022,978 1 78738 802 4 Show More
by Zsuzsanna Szelényi.
Hurst, 438 pp., £25, November 2022,
“... In 2014, the year of his second landslide election victory, Viktor Orbán announced his ambition to turn Hungary into an ‘illiberal state’. Citing Singapore, China, India, Turkey and Russia as examples of successful systems ‘that are not Western, not liberal, not liberal democracies’, Orbán was taking a swipe at foreign-owned banks, NGOs (‘political activists attempting to promote foreign interests’) and the European Union – despite Hungary’s reliance on EU subsidies ... ”