The Interview - Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?
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The coronavirus pandemic has prompted governments around the world to take emergency measures. Liberties have been restricted in the name of safeguarding public health, but no European nation has gone further than Hungary in the embrace of authoritarianism. In Hungary, democracy has in effect been suspended indefinitely. Stephen Sackur interviews the country’s State Secretary for International Communication, Zoltan Kovacs. Has Covid-19 ushered in the EU’s first de facto dictatorship?
(Photo: Zoltan Kovacs via video link)
Published on Friday, 24th April 2020.
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