One of the greatest challenges facing Hungary is coping with the grievances left by the authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in the 20th century. The question of how to settle the pro-Nazi and communist pasts of the country was first raised during the democratic transition in 1989. This paper discusses how the democratic 1989 constitution of...
Tag: <span>Kriszta Kovács</span>
The future of constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland
After two decades of democratic consolidation, two member states of the European Union, Hungary and Poland are now in the process of authoritarian backsliding. The presentation will describe the current state of affairs (from the lack of persistent and long term mobilisation on behalf of constitutionalism to the governmental attacks on the internal and external...