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Democratic Security
The MAGA Safe House for Polish Fugitives
13 May 2026
25 February 2025
Visegrad Insight Fellow
Despite Fidesz’s declining popularity, Russian-backed disinformation efforts could help engineer a revival before the 2026 elections. The EU must take stronger action against pro-Kremlin disinformation and media capture.
23 January 2025 may enter Hungary’s history books as the day a simple hoax terrified the nation. A supposed ‘Muslim terrorist’ email campaign, threatening to unleash the ‘wrath of the oppressed’, sparked panic throughout the country and saw 300 schools evacuated and many other buildings swept for explosive devices.
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Dr. Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFIS) in the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and a visiting fellow at CEU Democracy Institute. Her research interest covers informality and populism in the context of democratic backsliding and the constraining role of the European Union. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Department. Synthetic versions of her work are available on POLITICO EUROPE, Foreign Policy and Visegrad Insight. Edit held a re:constitution fellowship 2022/2023, a Rethink.CEE fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Visegrad Insight Fellowship. She previously worked at Political Capital Research Institute and prior to that, she was a journalist at various media outlets in Hungary.
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