Managing resentment in the Visegrad Four: a challenge for liberal leaders (Ferenc Laczó, Aspenia online)

Poland and Hungary offer outstanding examples of the new populist style of politics and the strength of anti-liberal nationalism observable across much of the continent. The two countries were prime initiators of the “negotiated revolutions” of 1989 and readily participated in the liberal democratic turn of Central and Eastern Europe. It is probably more than a mere coincidence, then, that it is precisely their political environments which have come to be shaped by right-wing authoritarian tendencies in the mid-term.

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Ferenc Laczó is a lecturer in contemporary European history at Maastricht University and specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century.