Hungary cranks up anti-immigrant populism, jeopardizing EU stability

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s third-term election this week is the most galling blow to European unity in recent years.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is now in his third straight term in power, after having won an April 8 election. Photograph courtesy of the European People's Party

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 11, 2018

OTTAWA—Of all the indignities and blows the European unity project has suffered in recent years, the most galling has to be the decisive re-election of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán this week. Orbán, whose populist appeal hinges on vicious anti-immigrant slurs and pro-nationalist parano...

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