"Hungarian foundations are supporting the development of far-right ideologies in the US and Europe. American Republicans have learned a great deal from Viktor Orbán, replicating many of his political strategies."

"In the United States, there is real suffering among working-class people. Real wages are stagnating, death rates are increasing. In Germany, real wages of workers without a college degree have been stagnating for several decades,"

Wider View explores Hungary's complex role in Europe under the leadership of Viktor Orbán. Despite leading the EU Council, Orbán has actively blocked aid to Ukraine and challenged EU norms, raising questions about his loyalty to the West. With ties to Putin and a controversial stance on NATO, is Hungary moving away from democratic values?

I spoke with TVP WORLD, an international news network operated by Polish Television, discussing the social and economic foundations of Viktor Orbán's politics.

Driven by globalization and the information technology revolution, the world political landscape is undergoing unprecedented changes. Against this backdrop, populism, as a political phenomenon, has gradually moved from the periphery to the center, becoming a key force influencing modern political development. In recent years, populism has exhibited new characteristics and trends in Western societies, particularly against the backdrop of economic inequality, political polariza

Orbán, Trump, Ukraine, Europe and many other related topics in may interview on Japanese national broadcast TV. (In Japanese )

“Orban and Vucic are both the kind of illiberal leaders who are positioning their countries between the rivaling geo-political blocs, hoping to avoid too strong dependence on any one of them,”

“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and its appeal to workers." It’s official: Following Tuesday’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appear set for a rematch in November after both candidates secured enough delegates to win their parties’ nominations. This past weekend, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hosted Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister

"The government of Viktor Orban favors its close entrepreneurs, but its policies also benefit foreign investors. This is one of the reasons why the EU is reluctant to impose sanctions. The EU payments will benefit not only Orban's friends but ultimately all capitalists in Hungary. Orban knows that as long as he makes foreign companies happy and brings money to Western Europe, he will also get away with destroying democracy."

"Over the past decade, Hungary has become a classic case in the debate over illiberal democracy- even more recently with the rise of figures such as Matteo Salvini, Donald Trump, or Jair Bolsonaro on the international political scene. Around this theme was born this dialogue with Gábor Scheiring, former opposition MP in Hungary, sociologist (Ph.D., Cambridge) and researcher at Bocconi University."

"Behind the veneer of economic nationalism, Hungary is one of the breeding grounds of a new incarnation of neoliberalism. We spoke with sociologist Gábor Scheiring, a founder and former MP of the Hungarian Green Party LMP (Politics Can be Different) about his new book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary."

Gabor Scheiring gives a new interpretation of the rise of a populist and authoritarian leadership in Hungary. An excerpt from his new book: The Retreat of Liberal Democracy. Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in the 21st Century. https://www.unibocconi.it/en/news/backslide-liberal-democracy

Gabor Scheiring has been an activist, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and the shadow minister of finance before completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge. Now a postdoc researcher at Bocconi, he has obtained a Marie Curie fellowship to study the relationship between economic change, public health, and populism.

Scheiring Gábor „Egy demokrácia halála” címmel könyvet írt az Orbán-rendszerről. A kötet új definíciót ad a rezsimről, miközben annak társadalmi hátterét is újrarajzolja.