Viktor Orban

Angela Merkel was determined to remove the obstacles created by Budapest and Warsaw as she considers the Recovery Fund to be a significant part of her political legacy.

The current unprecedented crisis constitutes a major temptation for authoritarian rulers everywhere to usurp more power.

The national populists, exploiting in a demagogic manner the real and weighty problems of European unification, deceive and drag down an undemocratic path a large segment of the citizenry of European societies.

It is legitimate for the prime minister not to like revelations. It is undemocratic, however, to target particular media outlets, the same media which in the past government members attempted to control or even shut down.

The ex-finance minister lambasted the defence minister, describing him as an extreme-right populist, and comparing him to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

It is clear that countries of the Eastern Bloc find it difficult to tolerate the values and traditions of liberal democracy. Unfortunately, the same stands true for many cadres of the Greek Left