This week Hungary’s parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, granted the prime minister open-ended, broad-reaching emergency powers. Visiting Fellow James Kirchick explains this as the latest step in Hungary’s democratic decline and how the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the re-nationalization of politics within the European Union.
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