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What’s happening with Hungary’s pandemic power grab?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:09:06
Publish Date: 2020-04-02 16:54:29
Description:

This week Hungary's parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, granted the prime minister open-ended, broad-reaching emergency powers.  Visiting Fellow James Kirchick explains this as the latest step in Hungary's democratic decline and how the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the re-nationalization of politics within the European Union.

Full show notes and transcript: https://brook.gs/2Uz3mO2 

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