of freedom notjust in hungary, but across the eu? well, my guest, zsuzsanna szelenyi, was his ally in the early days of the fidesz party. now she is an arch critic. but has orban found a politicalformula illiberal democracy for which his opponents have no answer? zsuzsanna szelenyi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. when you look at your home country, hungary, today, in terms of its politics, its political culture, what do you see? well, hungary is in trouble. this is what i see first. it is diverting for a track where we entered 30 years ago, the western way of life. the generation of politicians which are characterised by fidesz, viktor orban s party, where i started my political career 32 years ago, we thought we are the party of the west. actually, orban, even 15 years ago, mentioned in a speech that fidesz party is the new western generation, and what we see today is everything but that. so that, of course, mak
from mr reznikov who hasn t been personally implicated in the procurement scandal involving the purchase of rations at inflated prices. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. viktor orban can make a strong claim to be europe s most successful leader. after four consecutive election victories, he s admired by cultural conservatives and nationalists from moscow to washington. he wins elections, yes but is he a democrat or has he subverted democracy and undermined the cause of freedom notjust in hungary, but across the eu? well, my guest, zsuzsanna szelenyi, was his ally in the early days of the fidesz party. now she is an arch critic. but has orban found a politicalformula illiberal democracy for which his opponents have no answer? zsuzsanna szelenyi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. when you look at your home country, hungary, today, in terms of its politics, its political culture, wha
And the sudanese people. Over the past year, his people have been victims of a terrible war, a war he did not want. The purpose of these meetings is to mobilize the entire International Community so that the world sees sudan take action. How unlucky the longsuffering people of sudan were, thought residents of the entire african continent. It will be a disaster if suddenly the eyes of the french fall on a particular country. Not a year yet passed as the colonialists were finally driven out of the rich natural resources. Resources of west african countries, as the minister of Foreign Affairs of the peta republic, stefan sornet , immediately found a new point of application. Sudan. Poor we are, the french themselves thought. Another, in quotation marks, Peace Initiative 100 km from paris will make them even poorer, or even take the life of someone close to them. We are no longer even talking about france and its weakening by blind and irresponsible elites. The question is, are we willing
, the middle east is such an unpredictable. Case, although, on the part of hamas, aggressiveness has been increasing, uh, especially in recent weeks it was clear that some kind of preparation was being carried out, that is, the Israeli Special services understood something, were monitoring something, but given the fact that in ukraine several, well, in particular, absolutely such, disproportionate. Disproportionate attack on er, avdiivka, which was preparing obviously, several months, sometimes two months at least, because everything that shoots on the Eastern Front was concentrated, that is, the russians used airplanes, barrel artillery, volley fire systems, mortars and finally. In the end, they concentrated there under 10,000 manpower that attacked avdiivka, that is, we can say that the calculation for such an escalation was total, and this escalation can be perceived as preparation for putins visit to beijing, it seems to me that it was very important for putin to prepare a strong.
Putin looks confident, well, this is understandable, because serbia and hungary, they have, lets say, financial projects with china, in the infrastructure sphere and not only, there in serbia, china helps to build railways, roads, and so on, and in hungary, similar, as a matter of fact, budapestbelgrade, the big, big highway, the big autobahn, which they are helping there, they are investing in it, well, but if he speaks. In general about what is happening these days in china, it is clear that sidzinpil is trying to use it in his own interests, to demonstrate that china can be a center of attraction for those who at some point in some way disagree with the policies of the west, as they say, that is, with the United States and the european union, and it is clear that they are challenging the west, this whole project in general one. Train one way, it is a struggle, a geopolitical, powerful, struggle of land against the sea, the sea, which represents globally, the United States, now repre