Hungary: Protest and Populism

Published: April 21, 2017, 8 a.m.

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Is the increasingly autocratic brand of populism adopted by Hungary\\u2019s right-wing government becoming a laboratory for right wing parties around the world? Prime Minister Viktor Orban\\u2019s tough policy against Muslim migrants and his call to defend Europe\\u2019s Christian civilisation have put him at odds with the rest of the European Union. On Newshour Extra this week, Owen Bennett Jones and his guests discuss this Hungarian vision of an \\u2018illiberal democracy\\u2019 and ask whether what was once considered on the edge of the European right, is now becoming an increasingly mainstream ideology.

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