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Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?

Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?

The Interview vor 6 Jahren

Stephen Sackur speaks to Hungary's State Secretary for International Communication

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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)