25 years after the establishment of democracy and a market economy, elections will be held in Hungary in Spring 2014. What is at stake: will the country return to “European normality” or will Fidesz continue its process of state capture, and state-capitalism, accompanied by endless “freedom fights”. How will the elections decide the country’s fate for the future generation?
Gordon Bajnai
Former Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-2010), Leader of the political electoral alliance Together 2014
Discussants:
János M. Kovács
External Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; IWM Permanent Fellow
Christian Ultsch
Head of the Foreign Politics Department, Die Presse
Read an interview with Gordon Bajnai, published in Die Presse on November 14, 2013.
„Ungarn gab demokratische Kernwerte auf“
25 years after the establishment of democracy and a market economy, elections will be held in Hungary in Spring 2014. What is at stake: will the country return to “European normality” or will Fidesz continue its process of state capture, and state-capitalism, accompanied by endless “freedom fights”. How will the elections decide the country’s fate for the future generation?
Gordon Bajnai
Former Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-2010), Leader of the political electoral alliance Together 2014
Discussants:
János M. Kovács
External Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; IWM Permanent Fellow
Christian Ultsch
Head of the Foreign Politics Department, Die Presse
Read an interview with Gordon Bajnai, published in Die Presse on November 14, 2013.
„Ungarn gab demokratische Kernwerte auf“
