Five Polish lawyers and activists, including our Post-doctoral Fellow Barbara Grabowska-Moroz brought the case of wiretapping and mass data collection by Polish security agencies to the European Court of Human Rights.

“It would take at least 16 years to get Hungarian education back to where it was in 2009,” our Research Affiliate Peter Rado said in an interview with 444.hu.

Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup, gave an interview to Prague-based Current Time TV, arguing that flan nationality-based visa bans in Europe would be illegal under EU law.

“I wonder how parents of girls will feel about their children's life chances being determined by the state again,” our Research Affiliate Andrea Peto said to Telex.hu.

The article covering the European debate about the proposed visa ban for Russian tourists quotes our Research Affiliate Sarah Ganty.

The independent Russian news site, Meduza, published a longread on the proposed Schengen visa ban for Russian citizens. Our Rule of Law Workgroup’s lead researcher Dimitry Kochenov and Research Affiliate Sarah Ganty contributed to the article.

“Populist attitudes have four dimensions, the three that were theoretically sound—people-centrism, anti-elitism, and a Manichean worldview—plus authoritarianism,” our Research Affiliate Levente Littvay said in an interview with Illiberalism.org.

No child is protected from violence at school or domestic abuse by the so-called child protection law in Hungary our Research Affiliate Dorottya Redai argues in a video with Qubit.hu.

In the 20th century, politicians’ charm was based on distance, while today, they are trying to construct an image of being “one of us,” our Research Affiliate Julia Sonnevend said as the guest in Friderikusz Podcast, a Hungarian show.

The self-destructive education policy goes on, our Research Affiliate Peter Rado writes in his article on Portfolio.hu.