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Hungary’s Probationary Return to Europe
Péter Magyar’s first European tour placed Hungary back under Europe’s gaze: exposed, examined, and visible again under a harsher light.
 • Péter Dósa
Viktor Orbán Lost Power. Has Anyone Told Him?
Orbán conceded Hungary’s election, skipped the opposition bench, and began the stranger work of remaining larger than the office he lost.
 • Péter Dósa
Hungary After Dark: What the Old State Wrote Down
Inside the cabinet summaries, cost tables and missing records that show how Orbánism turned political messaging into government action.
 • Péter Dósa
The Audition to Become Europe’s Next Orbán
Orbán gave Europe’s nationalist right proof that its politics could govern. His defeat leaves a more awkward question: who can make the trick work now?
 • Péter Dósa
The Refinery on the Shannon
The legal route from the Shannon into Russia’s war economy, and the Irish silence that gathered around it.
 • Péter Dósa
The Long Way Back to Hungary
How leaving, illness, love, and language became a way of returning
 • Péter Dósa
Hungary After Dark: The Man Who Wouldn’t Leave
Tamás Sulyok refuses to resign. Parliament now faces its first major post-Orbán test: removing entrenched figures left behind by the former regime.
 • Péter Dósa
Spain Is a Country I Love Deeply. That Is Why Vox Terrifies Me.
How Orbán’s politics found an ally in Spain’s far right, and why Vox threatens the plural country I’ve come to love.
 • Péter Dósa
The Right to Be Seen
Cruelty has been organised. Pride is the refusal to disappear politely.
 • Péter Dósa
The State of Hungary: The Spell Is Breaking
Orbánism has lost the luxury of being invisible.
 • Péter Dósa
Europe Was a Road, Then a Classroom, Then a Home
How Erasmus turned Europe from a borderless idea into a life I could actually live.
 • Péter Dósa
Orbán’s Poisoned Miracle
In Göd, north of Budapest, the future arrived as a grey industrial wall.
 • Péter Dósa
Closure Is Not Revenge
A country cannot repair what it refuses to examine.
 • Péter Dósa
Hungary After Dark — Power, on Paper
A week of favours, missing money, salary cuts, Brussels pressure, and the old system’s talent for surviving in plain sight.
 • Péter Dósa
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