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The Real Story: Hungary: Protest and Populism

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Hungary: Protest and Populism

21/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Real Story, Hungary: Protest and Populism

Is Hungary's government, once considered far to the European right, now mainstream?

Is Hungary's government, once considered to be at the far end of the the European right, now considered mainstream?

Is the increasingly autocratic brand of populism adopted by Hungary’s right-wing government becoming a laboratory for right wing parties around the world?  Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s tough policy against Muslim migrants and his call to defend Europe’s 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 ‘illiberal democracy’ 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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