Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary > Status Update

Because while EU has no need to legitimise or delegitimise the orange or rainbow revolutions or regime changes outside the EU, should such events occur within the community, there is a need to address the problem of legitimacy of democracy not having a legal continuity...

In places where the community of values is lacking, it is unable to prevent the emergence of an autocratic regime.

[The advent of a two speed Europe will lead to policy change] instead of consolidating democracies in this buffer zone at a high cost, they will pacify semi-autocratic regimes at a minimal cost.

...in the European Union, no political intervention in the economy is capable of preventing firms from diverting their capital and citizens from diverting their savings abroad or emigrating in response.

"... the fact remains that Hungary has been unable to narrow its lag behind the founding EU member states over the past yerars" - the miscalculation of my life

The question is how long can the operators of the mafia state use the refined tools of repression and brainwashing to maintain the political passivity of those struggling to get by...? - longer now that Europe is climbing out of recession.

the number of crimes that were reported but later rejected by the authorities has tripled, and the rate of investigations that were started but then terminated has doubled.

the number of crimes reported between 2010-2013 for three types of criminal activities related to corruption...decreased to one-half to one-third of the amount of the preceding four years. - the level of corruption prior to 2010 was a cause of Fidesz's landslide in the election that year.

expropriating private enterprises (e.g. 300-400 private companies by media estimates...

...it is evident that the institutions of public authority are not guardians of legality and equality before the law, but just the opposite: institutionalised bodies serving the arbitrariness of personal interests. - A question of degree rather than of quality?