A few weeks ago, the European Union underwent a fundamental change: it ceased being a bloc of exclusively democratic states.
Worse, leaders across Europe barely flinched.
Prime minister Viktor Orbán's seizure of absolute power in Hungary at the beginning of April – under the cover of the coronavirus pandemic – culminates a decade of authoritarian moves.
Step by step, Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have politicised ...
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Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch.