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Polish President Unlikely to Block Tusk’s Appointment as PM
1 December 2023
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.