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Hungary’s Prime Minister Victor Orbán won his second consecutive term in a landside election last month. The governing Fidesz party managed to retain its absolute majority as the result of arguable new election laws...
May 24, 2014 10:00 am / no comments
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In Hungary as well as in Europe the far-right is gaining more and more popularity. Hungary’s right wing extremist party, Jobbik is now the second biggest party in the country, with 20% of the votes behind them. With...
May 23, 2014 8:25 pm / no comments
A study titled ”The attitude of the Hungarian extreme-right towards capitalism” was presented at the conference on ”Anti-capitalism, anti-Europe and extremism”, recently held by the Free Market Foundation and Political Capital Research...
May 22, 2014 5:43 pm / 12 comments
Using the official election results and its own reasearch Republikon Instutite analyzed the results of the Hungarian national elections in 2014. In this article the most important findings are summed up regarding the turnout and the impact of...
May 9, 2014 5:39 pm / 1 comment
Besides the general turnout and results of the elections Republikon Institute took a deeper look into the performance of each parties as well, with special regard to the changes since 2010, the parties different performance in different regions...
May 9, 2014 5:32 pm / 6 comments
Republikon Institute used data available from Eurobarometer to construct three categories among voting-age population in Europe: eurosceptics, who are dissatisfied with Europe; “soft eurooptimists”, who, in general, are comfortable with...
April 18, 2014 9:12 am / no comments
From among the EU member-states, the Hungarian government used the most lenient approach to the Russian operations in Ukraine. The opposition parties’ immediate reactions to these events made the government party express its opinion too. We...
March 26, 2014 1:55 pm / 1 comment
There is a rather strong public opinion about the future of the European Union, not only in Hungary, but in the majority of the Union’s countries. It can be felt that the number of Eurosceptic parties that attack the Union, and support for...
February 13, 2014 5:34 pm / 12 comments
European Citizens’ Initiative for Media Pluralism: the State of the European Union and Hungary -
international conference organised by the Hungarian Europe Society.
Budapest, 27 September 2013, Friday
Venue: Hotel Benczúr, 1068...
October 21, 2013 5:34 pm / 2 comments
Project Parallel liberalisms, based on research by Republikon Institute, aims to define liberal voters of Hungary – who these liberal voters are and where they stand. Today it is a valid question, since recently the number of parties trying...
June 22, 2013 8:21 am / no comments