Orbán’s Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy

The regime in Budapest is accelerating its efforts to consolidate both its power and influence over the country

11 February 2019

Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

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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Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Visegrad Insight Fellow and re:constitution fellow. Political scientist and sociologist, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Vice-president of Amnesty International Hungary and a guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department of the United States. Focusing on informal power and populism in the context of Hungarian and Polish democratic backsliding.

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