Video: Hungary's Fear Factor

  • 23 Nov 2017 12:24 PM
Video: Hungary's Fear Factor
Whether they target immigrants, the EU, liberalism, homosexuals, or the US Jewish and Hungarian born billionaire George Soros, the radical narratives spread by the ruling Fidesz party and the far right movements are gaining ground in the Hungarian society.

A few months ahead of the next parliamentary elections, Euronews reporter Valerie Gauriat travelled to Hungary to hear from both supporters and opponents of the mainstream war of words against what Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orbán considers.

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