A Glorious Defeat

... Fidesz. The very wording of the question that appeared before Hungarians on referendum ballots is curious: “Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of the National Assembly ... ... “against” roughly corresponds to the number of votes for Hungary’s two leading (right-wing) parties Fidesz and Jobbik in 2014. Coincidentally, the two parties were the most active opponents of migrant settlement and what they perceive as ...