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ted from finger-wagging to appeasement. By Heather A. Conley and Charles Gati May 25 About the authors + Two important American visitors showed up in Budapest on Wednesday. One was Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House adviser who is an admirer of Hungary's strongman, Viktor Orban; he addressed a confer

The Washington Post Outlook Perspective Trump loves a strongman, so of course he fawns over Hungary's Viktor Orban How Washington pivoted from finger-wagging to appeasement. By Heather A. Conley and Charles Gati May 25 About the authors + Two important American vi

e House adviser who is an admirer of Hungary's strongman, Viktor Orban; he addressed a conference on "Europe's Future" organized by Mária Schmidt, an Orban counselor with Bannon-esque ideas about maintaining a Christian culture in Europe. Bannon had called Orban "a man of principles" as well as "a real p

Putin appears to have read our passivity as a license to pursue control, if not conquest, of his neighbors. He has effectively repudiated the 1994 Budapest memorandum on security assurances in which Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for commitments from the United States, Brita

xpanding program inside the EU and NATO as well as outside it. Linking up with anti-Brussels, anti-Berlin politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, Russia is developing deeper financial, economic and even political links well inside the divided Union. With business and especially the energy bu

to cultivate a sense of pan-Slavic unity that looks to Mother Russia, and to provide aid and encouragement for anti-western leaders like Hungary's Orban would suit Putin very well. The EU is currently struggling in the southeast of Europe. The Balkans and Hungary are not doing well, and efforts to b

e Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; II Giardino Di Boboli in Florence, Italy; the National Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Tel Aviv Opera House in Israel; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; the United Nations in New York; and National Statuary Hall i

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om top to bottom. Disturbingly, the leaders of some dem- ocratic societies have begun to embrace the majoritarian idea. The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, has instituted a thorough overhaul of the country's constitution and national leg- islation with an eye toward measures that will insulate his party

his “illiberal democracy" speech before an ethnic Hungarian audi- ence in Baile Tusnad, Romania.! Several points in his remarks are worth noting: ¢ Orban urged his listeners to no longer regard the 1989 triumph over communism as the reference point for developments in Hungary. Instead of measuring prog

one Republican legislator after another defended the Fidesz government, often in ways that demonstrated blatant ignorance of political conditions in Budapest.'® Conservatives praise Orban for his commitment to traditional values and decisive leadership, but they ignore the course he has set for the economy

The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; II Giardino Di Boboli in Florence, Italy; the National Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Tel Aviv Opera House in Israel; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; the United Nations in New York; and National Statuary Hall in t

us sitting on stage. 3 Michael Smolens and David Orban of dotSUB will then translate it into perhaps 10