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Hungarian Uprising. 60 years on

... precarious and any pretext could spark mass unrest. The revolution was triggered by the reburial of Laszlo Rajk, a prominent Hungarian Communist politician, who fought in Spanish Civil war in 1937—1939 and then was a leader of the anti-fascist front in Hungary. While staying on the post of foreign minister L. Rajk was executed in 1949 on false charges of spying for Yugoslavia. The reburial had a great symbolic message because Matyas Rakosi was implicated in the death of Rajk having actually presided ...

23.10.2016

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The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... country is inside the Union. Worries about Austria in the early 2000s, later Poland, Romania, and the ongoing woes about Hungary seem to have solidified the notion in European officialdom that it is an issue they have to resolve and indeed quickly - Hungary looks already lost. The argument that issues of democracy should remain the member states’ competence and that any pressure from Brussels regarding the democratic structure is a violation of “national sovereignty” (used in Hungarian official communication, for example, in the undefined,...

19.07.2013

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