Policy Solutions has a long history of providing international audiences with in-depth analyses of Hungarian political life. For the eleventh time, we publish our annual review of Hungarian politics. This is a comprehensive overview of recent developments, events and trends in Hungary in 2024, and an outlook on what topics we expect to dominate Hungarian politics in 2025.
In the first section we review the year from the perspective of the Hungarian government, with a special emphasis on the strategic situation of the government at the end of 2024. In the second section we look at the opposition parties, their state and prospects after the 2024 EP and municipal elections, focusing on the challenges facing the Tisza Party led by Péter Magyar. The third section focuses on foreign affairs, in particular the developments between Hungary and the European Union, and the foreign policy opportunities of the Orbán government under the new Trump administration. All of the sections conclude with a brief analysis of the issues which may come to the fore in 2025.
Editor: András Bíró-Nagy
Main author: Gábor Győri
Contributing author: András Bíró-Nagy
Policy Solutions is a progressive political research institute based in Budapest. It was founded in 2008 and it is committed to the values of liberal democracy, solidarity, equal opportunity, sustainability and European integration. The focus of Policy Solutions’ work is on understanding political processes in Hungary and the European Union. Among the pre-eminent areas of our research are the investigation of how the quality of democracy evolves, the analysis of factors driving euroscepticism, populism and the far-right, and election research.
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