🔥 It was my pleasure to comment on the 🇭🇺 EU presidency for the The Parliament Magazine in the great company of Daniel Hegedus. 👇

Hongarije is politiek en economisch verbonden met Rusland, vooral wat betreft energie. Vanaf morgen is een vriend van het Kremlin een half jaar lang voorzitter van de EU. nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06… door Flóri Hofman in NRC met Dr. Krisztina Lajosi en Edit Zgut-Przybylska

🟢 We are at Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's 15th 🇪🇺 Democracy Conference, with a focus on Europe’s future after the #EP2024 elections 🗳️🔍⏩ Join the public panel in Berlin/online today at 18:00 CEST! More info & livestream 👉 calendar.boell.de/en/event/europ… #EDC24 Team EU & Nordamerika | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ricarda Lang

🔥My comments in the The New York Times about Orban's meeting w/ Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. He is trying to break out of political isolation in #EU but will not turn away from Putin. 🇭🇺's dependency on #Russia will remain stronger than ever 👉twtr.to/xu4qL Marc Santora Visegrad Insight

💓💓Thank you my partner in crime Wojciech Przybylski

‼️🇷🇺Tomorrow, Viktor Orbán is expected to travel to Moscow, just days after he paid a surprise visit to Kyiv on Tuesday, multiple Western and CEE officials independently told me. Foreign minister Péter Szijjártó (Lavrov’s buddy) goes too. What a start to Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024! VSquare

.Policy Solutions's comprehensive survey of foreign policy attitudes reveals how Hungarian public opinion sees the world in 2024. Full report here: policysolutions.hu/userfiles/Poli… Some highlights👇

✍️📖 In their book chapter, Clara Volintiru and our Research Affiliate Edit Zgut-Przybylska look at democracy and Europeanization in Romania. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/xegrMUhP

🔙🗣️🗞️ Our Research Affiliates Edit Zgut-Przybylska and Peter Kreko commented on Hungarian PM Orban's earlier meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in The New York Times. Read what they said: 👉 cutt.ly/ZejDZVvn

EXCLUSIVE: Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 challenges Orbán Viktor anti-Western narratives. Read the full interview ⤵️ visegradinsight.eu/radoslaw-sikor… FYI Eszter Zalan Szabolcs Panyi Benjamin Novak Peter Kreko Edit Zgut-Przybylska Daniel Hegedus Philipp Fritz Steven Erlanger Marcin Zaborowski Prof. Katarzyna PISARSKA Michał Baranowski

I took a break in Babyville to write this for Visegrad Insight. Donald Tusk's dismantling of PiS’s #informal #patronal system may offer lessons for the 🇭🇺opposition #TISZA. Instead of demonising press/CSOs, it should push a culture of mutual tolerance👉twtr.to/2-4Bs

🇺🇦 "At least 120 Ukrainian citizens, mainly from the Transcarpathian region, are now homeless, with thousands more facing eviction as Hungary enforces a decree that restricts state-subsidized accommodation to those directly affected by the war in Ukraine." rferl.org/a/hungary-ukra…

Intelligence Book of the Day: Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code buff.ly/3Vt4AKe

cc: R. Daniel Kelemen , Kim Lane Scheppele, Edit Zgut-Przybylska

I am delighted to announce my book 'The Political Economy of Authoritarian Populism: Capitalists without the Right Kind of Capital' has been published today with Routledge: routledge.com/The-Political-… | yours for only £135!

🚀 Happy to share this regional analysis on #disinformation/CSOs. It was a pleasure to work with Daniel Milo TechSoup and great authors from Political Capital on this important topic. 👉 Check out the report here: twtr.to/kLp7N

💥NEW STORY: Leaked internal files from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center reveal how a well-coordinated Russian campaign supported far-right parties in the EP elections and planted disinformation on social media to undermine Ukraine. VSquare vsquare.org/leaked-files-p…

New: Germany lobbying fellow EU members to vote against tariffs on Chinese EVs Comes as Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao heads to Berlin tomorrow for talks with Robert Habeck scmp.com/news/china/dip…

🔥Me in Bloomberg news: economic downturn couldn't have come at a worse moment for Orban. Sharp slowdown in EV sales/brewing trade war with 🇨🇳 makes 🇭🇺 vulnerable. It harms the elite coherence of Orban's patronal-informal regime👇twtr.to/_4yKs w/ the great #DoraGyorffi