This interview in the magazine supplement of Ta Nea, Greece's leading daily, covers the structural roots of Orbán's illiberalism, from Hungary's three lost decades of real wage stagnation to his systematic construction of a transatlantic counter-hegemonic network designed to outlast his own government. We discuss how that network, centered on institutions like the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, shaped the American and European right, and what Magyar's two-thirds majority now mak

From American conservatives and European populists to political allies in the Caucasus, Viktor Orbán has built a network that increasingly rivals the influence once associated with Open Society. How did Hungary become a laboratory for the global right? And what does that mean for Georgia? https://caucasuswatch.de/en/interviews/is-the-defeat-of-viktor-orban-of-any-consequence-to-the-caucasus.html

The change of power in Hungary has become a reality. The new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has a chance to open a new chapter in the country’s history and strengthen democracy after the Orbán era. “His inauguration speech offered hope for justice, unity, and a break from the oligarchic system,” said Gábor Scheiring, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar, on World Talks. However, he pointed to three major traps on the path to sustainable

Two months into the war on Iran, the skeptics have been vindicated, and Europe’s center is slowly rediscovering the international law it abandoned in February. Liberal globalism has collapsed; violent, lawless illiberalism epitomized by Trumpism fills the void. The European center, with Merz as its figurehead, was meant to be the counterweight. Instead, when the US and Israel struck Iran on February 28, German chancellor Merz refused to “lecture” allies, declared internationa