Orbán´s Lawfare against Liberal Democracy in Hungary
(WorldNews Switzerland)

Heineken beer, Helsinki Committee and the Central European University in Budapest have recently all been the object of the Hungarian government`s unfavourable attention. It tried to ban the beer on the pretext that the red star on the can was a totalitarian symbol, to restrict the workings of the well-known NGO, and passed a new law designed to close the renowned private university, whose fate still hangs in balance. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán embodies the reactionary populist politics gaining ground in many parts of the world. In a well-publicised speech in 2014 he had declared with pride that his country was an `illiberal state`, and asserted later that the Trump revolution happened in...