HUNGARY AT A CROSSROADS: ORBÁN GAMBLES HIS 16 YEARS IN POWER AGAINST A FORMER ALLY WHO WANTS HIM OUT

GERMANY

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Berlin deciphers why Orbán lasted 16 years and prepares to manage the consequences of change it hopes for but cannot control

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CANADA

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Ottawa restores the vote to its concrete context: corruption and purchasing power will determine the outcome, not geopolitics

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CHINA

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Beijing discovers Chinese companies in Hungary face a reckoning — regardless of who wins the election

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UNITED STATES

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Washington reduces Hungary to five points without seeing the link to its own strategic interests in Europe

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FRANCE

STATE

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Paris oscillates between sympathy for Hungarians tired of Orbán and outrage at accusations of pro-Putin betrayal

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ITALY

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Rome sees Orbán cornered and crying conspiracy — a mirror of Italian populism that Meloni watches with concern

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UNITED KINGDOM

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London reads Orbán's possible fall as proof that populism has limits — a test for all of Europe

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RUSSIA

STATE

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Moscow covers Hungary with the anxiety of someone risking loss of its last veto in the European Council

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SERBIA

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Belgrade follows the vote as a neighbor sharing the same dilemmas between EU and Russia, democracy and autocracy

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SINGAPORE

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Singapore deciphers possible scenarios with the clinical interest of an autocracy observing how strong regimes fall

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UKRAINE

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Kyiv observes with barely concealed satisfaction the Kremlin preparing for Orbán's defeat and loss of its last European ally

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