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Viktor Orbán blinks first as EU moves to block bilions of euros going to Hungary

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Viktor Orban in Brussels, 2017. Source: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com

In the clash between Brussels and Budapest, Hungary blinked first. It was a successful test for the so-called conditionality mechanism that is supposed to keep countries from straying from democratic principles. But still, there is little hope for real anti-corruption reforms under Viktor Orbán.

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Will We Learn from Twitter’s Collapse?

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A couple of weeks ago a Elon Musk, a billionaire, whose skin is apparently as thin as his wallet is thick, took over Twitter, one of the important public squares on-line. Source: kovop58 / Shutterstock

Even as we watch in disbelief as Twitter goes down in flames, we continue to put all our digital eggs in the baskets of Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. We continue to host our services on Amazon AWS, behind CloudFlare. We continue to tie our businesses and public debate and our digital lives to Facebook. Because it’s easier that way. Until it’s not. But by then it’ll be too late.

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Orbán’s „mixed race speech”: Nazi talk or a badly phrased political diversion?

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gives a speech at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő, Transylvania, on 23 July 2022. Source: MTI/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Benko Vivien Cher.

Hate-mongering, unacceptable words reminiscent of fascism and nazi ideology – these are some of the comments on the speech given by Viktor Orbán in Băile Tuşnad, Romania in July, at this year’s event of the annual “Tusványos Festival”.

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Four Scenarios for Europe

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Source: Visegrad Insight, https://visegradinsight.eu

In the next years to come, Europe will be tormented by overlapping conflicts of varying nature, that will put additional pressure on the democratic setup of the Union and its immediate neighbourhood – writes Wojciech Przybylski, Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight, in the Executive Summary of new report: War and the Future of Europe.

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GLOBSEC: Volodymyr Zelensky four times more popular than Putin in CEE

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66% of respondents perceive Volodymyr Zelensky positively, compared to only 15% viewing Putin favourably. Source: Rokas Tenys / Shutterstock

New GLOBSEC report, GLOBSEC Trends 2022, shows that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is four times more popular than Vladimir Putin. On average, 66% of respondents perceive Volodymyr Zelensky positively, compared to only 15% viewing Putin favourably and 78% unfavourably.

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