Video Rattling Austria Can’t Touch Orban: Postcard From Budapest
- Four-term premier is standard bearer for Europe’s far-right
- Hungary’s vote for the EU legislature is a forgone conclusion
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Vienna and Budapest are connected by imperial history, the river Danube and in the latest twist on the eve of European Parliament elections, a Russian-tinged scandal.
Both eastern capitals are home to governments that have embraced nationalist sentiment and made the political mainstream uncomfortable. Hungary has gone the farthest in dismantling democracy’s guardrails in the EU, making four-term Prime Minister Viktor Orban a standard bearer of the far-right.