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Viktor Orbán and the gathering storm clouds in the East
Meetings of the heads of EU member states usually last much longer than anticipated. At eight in the evening participants were still discussing who will replace Herman Van Rompuy as European Council...
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Viktor Orbán feels more at home in Astana than in Brussels
After finding out today that the whole story about the new M4 superhighway was bogus, that the European Union hadn’t charged the bid-winning construction companies with price-fixing, I decided to move...
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No, Viktor, illiberalism is not the key to economic growth
Today’s post was inspired by an article that appeared yesterday in 444.hu with the intriguing title “We only wanted to open the doors to Eastern dictatorships, but they were blown away by the Curse of...
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Extradition of Yerzhan Kadesov to Kazakhstan, with Hungarian assistance
In order to understand the ins and outs of today’s post about the extradition of Yerzhan Kadesov, a Kazakh national, from Hungary to Kazakhstan, I’m afraid I have to start with Mukhtar Ablyazov, the...
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