Orbán’s biggest crisis?

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Hungary has seen its biggest anti-government protests in years over the past couple of weeks. But just how dangerous is this moment for Viktor Orbán? This week our favourite Hungarysplainer Viktória Serdült joins us to decipher the scandal that has shaken his government. We're also talking about the legalisation of gay marriage in Greece (finally!) and a Dutch court case that could have far-reaching consequences for the war in Gaza. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/orbans-biggest-crisis Viktória is a journalist at hvg.hu. You can find her on Twitter here and her article about Hungary's EU elections can be found here in EUObserver. This week's Inspiration Station offerings: 'Navalny' and 'Lost on Me' (Niente di vero) by Veronica Raimo. The Dutch court ruling can be found here and Euronews' piece on European military supplies to Israel can be found here. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. 00:22 Spending *most* of the week reading about Europe 02:29 Good Week: Gay marriage is now legal in Greece 07:47 Bad Week: European defence companies? 17:01 Interview: Viktória Serdült on Hungary's pardoning scandal 32:33 The Inspiration Station: 'Lost on Me' by Veronica Raimo and 'Navalny' 36:33 Happy Ending: Why kids monkey around Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Mastodon⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast.
0:25.5	We spend our weeks reading about what's going on in Europe,
0:28.2	so you don't have to, apart from in this one weekly dose of chatter that we put into your heads every Thursday.
0:35.8	That's a very pithy summary of what we do.
0:38.5	Thank you. I'm worried I may be over-promised, though, in saying that we're like going to
0:42.3	summarize everything that's happened in Europe.
0:44.1	I also didn't spend my entire week reading about what was happening in Europe, full disclosure.
0:48.8	I did spend a good chunk of it reading about Europe, though.
0:51.5	What did you spend the rest of the week doing? Well, to be honest,
0:54.5	I spent quite a lot of it reeling over the news from Russia last week about Alexei Navalny,
0:59.9	as you did too, I imagine. Yeah, incredibly sad and depressing news. Seems like Putin is just
1:06.5	more and more emboldened to do whatever he wants to ensure that his power is untouched.
1:12.1	Yeah, and it's really one of those stories that seems to have sent shockwaves across the whole of Europe and the world, really.
1:18.9	And because it's such a huge story, it is one of those stories that we do feel has been covered really very well by the rest of the media.
1:25.1	So we're going to be focusing on some other stories this week.
1:28.2	What are we going to be talking about, Dominic?
1:29.8	Well, we'll first have Good Week, Bad Week, coming up for you, as always.
1:33.1	But then we're going to be heading to the country actually that has the closest ties to Putin's regime within the EU, that is Hungary,
1:42.9	because there's been a pretty politically tumultuous time in Hungary
1:46.6	for the autocratic Prime Minister, Victor Orban.
1:50.1	Two of the most prominent female politicians from his party, Fides, were forced to resign
1:55.9	due to a pardoning scandal around a child sex abuse case.
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