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The nuclear deal should be central in the Hungarian opposition's campaign

Hungary's nuclear deal with Russia, and its handling, could be a powerful weapon in the opposition's hands, with elections due in April On January 31, Hungary’s Ministry of National Development announced that the documents justifying Hungary’s new nuclear energy deal with Russia will remain secret for 10 years. The nuclear cooperation agreement, signed during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s January 14 visit to Moscow, stipulates that Russia will lend Hungary...

06.02.2014

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Flip, then flop: on Hungary’s opening to the East

Since its landslide victory at the general elections in 2010, Hungary’s governing Fidesz party and its leader, Viktor Orbán, have been pursuing an ‘opening to the East’. Behind this should lie a reasonable rapprochement with Russia and the resource-rich countries of the Caucasus and the Arab Peninsula. But petty political goals seem to play a more important role. The policy’s successes have been marginal, while its long-term cost looks frightening Given Hungary’s...

22.04.2013

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