my op-ed from nzz: like in the #habsburg monarchy, the #hungarian elite is still using "sovereignty" against democracy and federalisation.

On April 27, #Vienna votes – but not everyone is allowed to participate. One third of Vienna's population is excluded from the right to vote. Particularly affected: people without Austrian citizenship, many from Central and Southeastern Europe. idm.at/events/wien-wa…

The elections in Vienna went well yesterday. However, more than a third of the population cannot participate (or only at the district level). Is this democratic? How could it be changed? These are the questions we’ll be discussing today. idm.at/events/wien-wa…

💥SCOOP Domani #Orbán makes the headline +++ Here's the story of a wonderful villa in Northern Italy, and its ties to Orbán's government +++ Thread 1/3

On May 11, #Albania will hold parliamentary elections. The political situation in Albania will be discussed in an online event with Rigels Lenja , Noljan Lole, and Franziska Tschinderle at IDMVienna, organised together with Karl-Renner-Institut & Politische Akademie idm.at/events/parlame…

When AUR provoked an open conflict with Hungarians in Romania in 2019 For a long time the military cemetery in Valea Uzului - a narrow valley seprating majority Hungarian areas from majority Romanian areas - was a graveyard for Hungarian soldiers fallen in WWII. A few years

#Sovereignists among themselves: While Viktor #Orbán considers George #Simion to be "a good sovereignist," Simion's possible prime minister, Marius Dorin Lulea, considers Ceaușescu to be a sovereignist. m.ziare.com/marius-lulea/g…

Losing #Fiume is almost as if Vienna were no longer red. The Adriatic city remains (somehow) left-wing in any case – but the Social Democrats have destroyed themselves. novilist.hr/rijeka-regija/…

Diaspora for 🇷🇴 George Simion 🇲🇩, Hungarian minority for Nicușor Dan. #Romania can be happy to have a Hungarian minority.

Local Budapest progressive MP, András Jámbor calls for Italian MEP Ilaria Salis "not to come to Hungary" for Budapest Pride in an open letter, as "she has done enough harm to Hungary as it is". Salis became an MEP after she was legally convicted for assaulting far-right

💥HOW FIREWALLS FALL - My analysis, just published in the Green European Journal "It is, in fact, political and economic elites who nurture far-right forces to prevent the emergence of genuine alternatives to the neoliberal consensus" greeneuropeanjournal.eu/how-firewalls-…

🇭🇺🇦🇹 On ORF Ö1 speaking about the restriction of fundamental rights in #Hungary (in context of possible ban of #pride in Budapest), the silence of the Churches on the matter, and Orban's fear of losing power. oe1.orf.at/player/2025061…

💥"Ursula #vonderLeyen Is Waging War on Workers" My piece / Jacobin A must-read about the way the EU Commission & European govts are "ghosting #workers", eroding rules, sacrificing welfare ⚠️Share if you want to raise awareness on this crucial issue jacobin.com/2025/06/von-de…

I was asked in SN aktuell about the ban on #Pride in Budapest: Orbán is using identity politics to distract from problems while trying to divide the opposition. Strategy failed: this year’s Pride turned into a large demonstration against the government. sn.at/politik/weltpo…

A bit of light summer reading from me in NZZ on ethnopluralism, Carl Schmitt, Alain de Benoist, and why the Habsburg Empire managed more stability than the nation-state ever did. nzz.ch/meinung/anders…