Even Orbán’s defenders are forced to admit that corruption was endemic in Hungary under his illiberal rule. “Orban’s Fidesz ...

BUDAPEST — Hungary's election on Sunday, April 12, is about more than who governs a country of almost 10 million. It is a test of a political model: one known as "illiberal democracy," one that has ...

Klara Dobrev is head of Hungary's opposition Democratic Coalition and former vice president of the European Parliament. DW spoke to her about the rise of illiberal democracy in Europe and current ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Yet because the election system is designed to favour strong parties, a two-thirds parliamentary majority seems to have become the norm in Hungary, which contains its own dangers. The centre-right ...

The European Union must re-engage with Turkey – even if it cannot with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – if it is to prevent any further backsliding on democratic reforms, according to this policy brief. Prime ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...