We can start by reducing the anxieties of the working and middle classes through policies that bolster the social safety net, reduce inequality and help prepare and retrain workers for jobs in the inf...

Thirty years ago on Monday, Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed people from communist East Germany to cross freely into Austria and hundreds of them rejoiced. The Iron Curtain was passi...

Imagine someone who had witnessed the liberation of Western Europe in 1945 returning in 1975, only to find the dictators coming back. That’s rather how it feels revisiting Central Europe 30 years af...

Granted, Brexit is driving everyone mad. We Brits owe all our European friends a sincere apology, a bottle of whisky and complimentary tickets to a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Hamlet. For...

I first met Viktor Orbán, the not-quite-dictator of Hungary, in 1989 in Budapest — and the man who introduced us was none other than George Soros. Orbán was then a firebrand student leader, anti-C...

Last year ended with a sense that the certitudes of the past with which international relations have evolved over the past few decades are fast vanishing. One of the most ambitious projects in the glo...

When European Union leaders gather in Brussels today, they will have a guilty secret: amongst them will sit the leader of a member state that is no longer a democracy. Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime...