In Central Europe, Hungary is navigating its own historic political transition. After 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s self-styled “Hungarian fortress” — defined by resistance to migration, liberal values, and Brussels — the keys to power have been handed to Péter Magyar, a man who once sat at Orbán’s own table. Despite all the drama of the transition, Magyar remains a conservative who will carry many of Orbán’s promises forward. But young Hungarians, much like Orbán’s generation in the late 1980s, are demanding change — and Magyar’s challenge will be to balance continuity with transformation in a nation that has fundamentally reshaped European politics over the past decade and a half.
Walter Murrow
April 14, 2026
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