How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop
Zsuzsanna Árendás and Vera Messing
A senior minister’s vulgar remark about Roma “cleaning train toilets” was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature.
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Vera Messing
Vera Messing is a Research Professor at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest and a Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute with over 20 years of experience in empirical research. Dr Messing’s work also explores the comparative analysis of social inequalities, ethnicity, and their implications across various policy domains.