
Misunderstanding Hungary’s ‘anti-colonial’ turn
Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán’s narrative of railing against ‘Brussels’.
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Zoltán Ginelli is a human geographer and global historian at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, focused on coloniality and race in Hungary and the political, economic and cultural relations between eastern Europe and the global south.

Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán’s narrative of railing against ‘Brussels’.