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Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?

Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Hungary's State Secretary for International Communication

The Interview · BBC World Service

April 24, 202022m 59s

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Show Notes

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted governments around the world to take emergency measures. Liberties have been restricted in the name of safeguarding public health, but no European nation has gone further than Hungary in the embrace of authoritarianism. In Hungary, democracy has in effect been suspended indefinitely. Stephen Sackur interviews the country’s State Secretary for International Communication, Zoltan Kovacs. Has Covid-19 ushered in the EU’s first de facto dictatorship?

(Photo: Zoltan Kovacs via video link)