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Exit Orbàn

Toby Abse raises two cheers for the fall of Hungary’s autocrat VICTOR Orbàn’s defeat in the Hungarian general election in mid-April was an event of international, not just purely Hungarian, significance. Orbàn had started his political career as an anti-Communist Liberal, favouring conventional neo-liberal economic policies, and his first stint as prime minister in 1998-2000Continue reading “Exit Orbàn”

Germany in crisis

TOBY ABSE warns of the shadow of the Far Right looming over the country’s forthcoming general election LAST autumn’s elections in three East German Lander had a significance that went far beyond the local, or even the national, causing shock waves all over Western Europe. Not only did they ultimately bring down Germany’s federal coalition,Continue reading “Germany in crisis”