Recent change of government in Poland mobilised many people, the spectrum of civil engagement is however polarised: from defenders of liberal values and adherents of conservative agenda to followers of nationalist resentments. Civil society is one of the key actors in Western liberal democracies. In transformation countries of Eastern-Central Europe, many initiatives were launched to …
In order to fully understand the Orbán government’s critique of the EU, and the hostility of the far-right Jobbik against the same, it is worth reviewing a few decades of political history in Hungary.