{"id":3736,"date":"2016-10-20T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/orbans-ungarn"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:04:31","slug":"orbans-hungary","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/orbans-ungarn","title":{"rendered":"ORBANS HUNGARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PAUL LENDVAI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n rules with an iron fist behind a seemingly democratic curtain. He is transforming a weak but functioning democracy into an authoritarian state. His almost unrestricted<br \/>He owes his position of power above all to his personal charisma, his ruthlessness and his instinct for power.<br \/>Celebrated as a democratic hope in the 1990s, Orb\u00e1n is now admired by men like Putin and Erdo\u011fan. He has turned his back on Western, liberal values. His right-wing conservative, populist course leaves plenty of room for xenophobic and anti-Semitic tendencies, while his financial and economic policy ambitions are leading to a split in society: a small layer of benefiting nouveau riche is set against a growing army of poor, unemployed and minimum wage pensioners.<br \/>The political opposition is weak and divided, the young urban generation is turning away from politics or emigrating.<br \/>Hungary has become a foreign body in democratic Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lendvai in conversation with Franz Vranitzky<\/p>\n<p>Moderation: Hans Rauscher, journalist<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Lendvai<\/strong>, internationally renowned journalist, author and expert on Eastern Europe, wrote for many years as a correspondent for the London Financial Times and respected Austrian, Swiss and German newspapers. He was editor-in-chief of the ORF's Eastern Europe desk from 1982 and director from 1987<br \/>of Radio \u00d6sterreich international. Today he is also co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the international magazine Europ\u00e4ische Rundschau, which he founded, head of ORF's Europe studio and columnist for Der Standard. He has published 16 books, many of them bestsellers and translated into several languages, and has received numerous awards.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lendvai<br \/>Orb\u00e1n's Hungary<br \/>Format 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 240 pages<br \/>Hardcover, dust jacket<br \/>ISBN 978-3-218-01038-2<br \/>\u20ac (A, D) 24,- | K &amp; S<br \/>Also available as an e-book<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAUL LENDVAI Viktor Orb&aacute;n regiert hinter einem scheinbar demokratischen Vorhang mit eiserner Faust. Eine zwar schwache, aber funktionierende Demokratie baut er in einen autorit&auml;ren Staat um. Seine nahezu uneingeschr&auml;nkteMachtposition verdankt er vor allem seiner pers&ouml;nlichen Ausstrahlung, seiner Unbarmherzigkeit und seinem Machtinstinkt.In den 1990er-Jahren als demokratische Hoffnung gefeiert, gilt Orb&aacute;ns Bewunderung heute M&auml;nnern wie Putin und [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3737,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-3736","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ORBANS UNGARN - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/orbans-hungary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ORBANS UNGARN - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PAUL LENDVAI Viktor Orb&aacute;n regiert hinter einem scheinbar demokratischen Vorhang mit eiserner Faust. 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