When in 2010 Viktor Orban returned to power in Hungary with a landslide two-thirds majority he promised a revolution.
He delivered: his government rewrote economic rules, challenging foreign banks, imposing special taxes, he rolled back the rule of law, cracked down on a free press, changed election laws.
Back then he was not taken seriously in Brussels. Officials expected this to be a glitch, and waited for Orban to fall back in l...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.