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Fidesz and Faith: Ethno-Nationalism in Hungary

  • Gábor Halmai

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

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“The protection of Hungary’s self-identity and its Christian culture is the duty of all state organizations” says one of the new provisions that were adopted on 20 June to change the country’s Fundamental Law of 2011. Besides its potential to limit fundamental rights, what are the possible consequences of this constitutional change, in legal, cultural and political terms?

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