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Democracy is out of order: CEU forced to leave Hungary
05.Dec.2018 - 18:29
In March 2017, the Hungarian Government proposed an amendment to the Hungarian higher education law (hereinafter referred as Lex CEU) that…
Authoritarian Turn and Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines
30.Nov.2018 - 16:06
Populist authoritarianism is proliferating across the planet. The rise of strongman leaders with an explicitly hostile view on human rights both…
Argentina: Fracking projects contradict the government`s agenda
29.Nov.2018 - 12:03
Argentina’s presidency concludes with the G20 Leaders’ Summit. Within this context, last June, the ministers of energy of the…
Europe Must Do More for Media and Democracy
29.Nov.2018 - 11:10
With the May 2019 European Parliament elections coming up, the European Union is taking steps to tackle the real and imaginary threats of…
Orchestrated Uncertainty: Another independent media outlet in Orbán’s hands
01.Nov.2018 - 11:59
“They have a baseball bat, but we took out a chainsaw,” said Zoltán Szabó, content development officer of Index.hu, in an…
Criminalization of homeless people in Hungary is taken a step further
26.Oct.2018 - 15:26
This article is part of our special "Focus on Hungary". This criminalization of homeless people is not a unique occurrence in Hungarian political…
Five Things Experts Are Saying About the 2018 Midterm Elections
23.Oct.2018 - 19:45
1. Democrats will flip the House. According to Barker and Nelson, Democrats are likely to gain a majority in the House of Representative. Barker…
Section 377 is scrapped! Sexual Minorities become full citizens of India
05.Oct.2018 - 13:13
Vishnu hugged me and said ‘Thank you! Thank you!’ his eyes moist, his voice choking. Only hours ago on the 6th of September 2018, the…
“A decision as important for Europe as it is for Hungary” – Benedek Jávor on the Sargentini Report
20.Sep.2018 - 15:41
Many MEPs have turned away from Viktor Orbán even within his own political group, the EPP, since May 2017, when the state of democracy in…
The Sargentini Report – Its background and what it means for Hungary and for the EU
19.Sep.2018 - 11:14
Up until this point Orbán's swing policy (heavily attacking Brussels in Hungary but attempting to show some cooperation within EU…

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