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Lex Biszku: Charge of homicide and high treason but can it be proven?
I have been planning to write about the so-called Biszku case for quite a while, and this is as good a time as any. It provides something of a break from day-to-day politics. It was way back in the...
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Kim Lane Scheppele: What Can the European Commission Do When Member States...
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values, as well as Director, Program in...
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Viktor Orbán is getting ready for a fight
If anyone thought that a second victory, especially with two-thirds parliamentary majority, would slow Viktor Orbán down, he was sadly mistaken. In fact, if it is possible, since his reelection he has...
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It took eight years but apparently the Hungarian police found the murderer
Today, for a change of pace, I’m turning to a high-profile murder case in Hungary. Way back on April 2, 2011 I wrote about a murder that had been committed in 2007. Irma Balla, a local Fidesz...
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Summary justice is coming within days: Viktor Orbán’s brave new world
The amazing thing about Viktor Orbán is his ability to sound utterly reasonable, even though we all know that his behavior in the past months has been anything but exemplary. A good example of his...
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Viktor Orbán and his protector Péter Polt, the prosecutor-general
A noteworthy article appeared in B1, a blog that identifies itself as a site “where blogging begins.” I must admit that I had never heard of it until yesterday, when I received three e-mails from three...
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