THE HUNGARIAN ELECTION: A CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES OR COMPETING VALUES?

2 February 2014

As Hungarians prepare for the next general election in a few weeks time, the political temperature is rising. Already, the first salvos in what is likely to be an acrimonious campaign have been fired, although as of yet there have been few casualties.

HUNGARY AND THE EU: WHAT PRICE DEMOCRATIC VALUES?

18 March 2013

Days ago, an editorial in the Financial Times (FT) called on Hungary to be sanctioned by the European Union. Hungary’s ‘crime’ was to continue to remodel its constitution in ways which liberal opinion in Europe felt to be inappropriate. The FT claimed that such moves were an ‘assault on European values’.