Category Archives: social background HU

Recent Art and Politics in Eastern Europe – OCC Athens

Posted on November 30, 2015 by ellenpolus

It almost seemed like all the big problems had moved to Greece. But the agenda changed again —for example the focus is now once again on Eastern Europe, where austerity and xenophobia meet in ‘ perfect harmony’. The region’s firm … Continue reading →

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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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Scheppele on democracy, constitutionalism, and rule of law in Hungary

Posted on November 17, 2014 by ellenpolus

What we have is a system in which Hungary has the appearance of constitutionalism, democracy, and rule of law, but no reality of constitutionalism, democracy, and rule of law.  This is a constitution that can be changed at will by … Continue reading →

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