Category Archives: EN

Hungary: Little EU Action on Rights Concerns

Posted on February 23, 2015 by ellenpolus

(Budapest) – Brussels has done virtually nothing about Hungary’s problematic laws and practices concerning human rights since the European Commission in March 2014 created a “rule of law” measure to address serious abuses in EU member states, Human Rights Watch … Continue reading →

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Hungary taking aim at NGOs and, critics say, democracy

Posted on February 22, 2015 by ellenpolus

BUDAPEST — Veronika Mora was getting ready for work when her home phone rang. “I’m at your office,” she recalls a policewoman telling her. “Where are you?” Mora, the head of a nonprofit agency that distributed millions of euros in … Continue reading →

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The illiberal democracy and the revanchist city – The spatial and political transformation of Budapest since 2010

Posted on February 20, 2015 by ellenpolus

by Kata Amon “We need to give back public spaces to the citizens” – argued István Tarlós, the mayor of Budapest and a member of the nationalist-conservative Fidesz party when he tried to justify the city’s criminalizing of homelessness in … Continue reading →

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Housing Is for All

Posted on February 6, 2015 by ellenpolus

During the Communist period in East-Central Europe, when people talked about “homelessness,” they were speaking of a spiritual or political condition – of being in exile from their country of origin or feeling homeless in their own country because of … Continue reading →

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A social catastrophe in the making: Social policy in Hungary since 2010

Posted on January 6, 2015 by ellenpolus

by Bálint Misetics It is not only constitutional democracy that Viktor Orbán’s regime treats as its enemy; the Hungarian government has also launched a forceful attack on the welfare state. A concise overview of the latest reforms – and an … Continue reading →

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Cuba Turns Off Critics’ Open Mic

Posted on December 31, 2014 by ellenpolus

The Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, who splits her time between the United States and Havana, traveled to Cuba in recent days seeking to pull off a bold experiment. She called on Cubans from all walks of life to meet at … Continue reading →

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Hundreds Take to the Streets to Seek Justice for Artist Killed by Miami Police

Posted on December 7, 2014 by ellenpolus

(…) “I think it’s really important for artists to be involved in this conversation for many reasons,” Alexandra Perisic, a member of the Miami Committee on State Violence, which organized the vigil, wrote to Hyperallergic over email earlier in the day. … Continue reading →

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