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Election loss for Hungary’s Orbán has ripple effects for Trump

The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States. That’s because President Donald Trump and many U.S. conservatives have long embraced Orbán, who has …

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The Causes & Consequences Of Orban’s Downfall

Most Hungarians came to take his achievements for granted and won’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone. The EU- and Ukrainian- backed Hungarian opposition just won a two-thirds supermajority in the latest parliamentary elections that ended Viktor Orban’s 16 years in office. His crushing defeat followed the EU earlier …

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