Poland and Hungary after the 2008 Global Crisis

Under an unprecedented political system, created since 2010, the Orbán government in Hungary has been dismantling liberal democracy.But this devlopment has remained relatively unknown to the world -even to Hungary's neighbour states and countries in the European Union.This study follows the internal political dynamics in both Hungary and Poland in the decade that has elapsed since the EU enlargement of 2004 brought these countries into the European Union.Traditionally Poland and Hungary have stayed close to each other in development.In 2005-07 Poland tried to establish a "Fourth Republic" foreshadowing the types of policy change the Orbán government later espoused.This Polish attempt collapsed, but the ideology is still very much alive.Bogdan J. Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist and is a professor at the Centre for