civil

1 October 2014

President Obama’s recent intervention in Hungarian affairs was undoubtedly unwelcome in Budapest. The Hungarian government’s dispute with a Norwegian NGO has seemed – at least on the surface – to be an unwarranted and politically motivated assault on civil liberties. Indeed, the fact that the US President saw fit to even comment on the affair was in itself interesting and in some ways a damning indictment of the Orbán government.