Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the longest-serving leader among EU leaders and perhaps the most successful populist politician in the world. Donald Trump has called him a ‘great leader’ in Europe and a ‘very strong man’. How did Orbán manage to establish control over Hungary, and can the Hungarian experience be transferred to a completely different, American, context?
The Orbanisation of America: Hungary’s lessons for Donald Trump
Former US State Department official and Director of Research at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Jeremy Shapiro and ECFR fellow Zsuzsanna Végh write about the lessons Trump can learn from the Hungarian experience
