Is Europe’s future on the ballot in Hungary? In Budapest, the US vice president actively stumping for far-right incumbent Viktor Orban who trails in the polls ahead of Sunday’s general election. European politicians sometimes campaign for likeminded peers from neighboring nations but here, it’s the United States openly taking aim at the bloc using the same talking points as Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
We’ll ask whether Vance’s support helps or hurts Orban in the homestretch of a race where the 62-year old populist's made a point of holding up the EU’s 90-billion euro loan to Ukraine. We'll ask about Orban's strategy and the opposition's claim that the prime minister tried a false flag operation in neighboring Serbia with an alleged plot against a pipeline supplying Russian gas.
More broadly, we’ll assess how a nation of 9 and-a-half million's fared under 16 years of increasingly illiberal Orban rule. How has pushing Hungary as the avant garde of a white Christian anti-woke, anti-immigrant alliance served Hungary? And what's the opposition offering instead?
Produced by François Picard, Théophile Vareille, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.
Our guests
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Thibault MUZERGUES Political Scientist, Author of "Postpopulism"
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Edit ARANY-TOTH Activist, Hungary's opposition party Tisza
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Zsuzsanna VEGH Political analyst, German Marshall Fund of the United States
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