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Orbán’s Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy [1]

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Date: 2019-02-11 06:00:45+00:00

The Hungarian prime minister is completing his authoritarian hybrid regime at a rapid speed: the government is about to dismantle the Hungarian Science Academy a lá the Russian method.

According to the annual ranking by the US-based NGO Freedom House, Hungary has be downgraded to a “partly free” country after having suffered the largest fall in the history of the survey.

With the magnitude of its democratic backsliding, Hungary represents a unique model in the European Union and has become part of an ever-expanding club of autocratic countries such as Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Singapore.

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[1] Url: https://visegradinsight.eu/orbans-next-victim-the-hungarian-science-academy/

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