The New York Times: Hungary poses a challenge to the European Union fighting for liberal democracy and the rule of law
According to the newspaper, the best-known representative of “soft autocracy” in Europe is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Democracy is under threat around the world because angry populists and authoritarian leaders think unlimited state power is good for ordinary citizens.”
– can be read in the opinion article of The New York Times.
According to the newspaper, even in the European Union, Poland and Hungary pose a challenge to liberal democracy and the rule of law – the European Parliament recently stated that not a full-fledged democracybut an electoral autocracy.
They added: the United States and its NATO allies are doing a lot to help Ukraine in the fight against Russia, which they present as a fight between democracy and a totalitarian system. “But not everyone accepts the bipartite proposed by Joe Biden, which includes NATO member Hungary and Turkey.”
They reject sanctions against Russia and perceive the war in Ukraine as a proxy war”
– writes the author of the New York Times.
In another article of the paper, the author emphasized: the perceptible decline of democracy since the 1960s is not caused by coups and revolutions, but by the actions of legitimately elected governments.
the best-known representative of this “soft autocracy” is Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungarian Europe.”
According to the article, the prime minister “Since his election in 2010, he has been working on building an illiberal democracy, and to this end he has weakened civil organizations, freedom of the press, brought the judiciary under his control, and transformed the electoral system.”
In the process, it became the model of the right, which includes the United States”
– can be read in the article.
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