Hungary's new government is tested very early. Paks nuclear plant is about to go offline for the first time in 44 years because the Danube is drying up. That's nearly half the country's electricity. Collapsed supply & gas prices spiking throughout the region. Just brutal. apnews.com/article/hung...
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Palma Polyak
Профиль VivelySenior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne | IPE & Geoeconomics | Trade imbalances 🚢 & EV battery value chains 🔋 https://palmapolyak.weebly.com/research.html
"The exchange rate is a symptom, not the disease." 👏 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Maddening thing is that Tuchel *did* play the right tactics—and when it started working, he threw it out the window for this idiocy
Ian SmithDefending a 1-0 lead inside our box for half an hour. Will it ever work? No. Will we do it every time? You bet
Fantastic and thought-provoking piece by Leah & Ben, connecting many of the dots I've been grappling with in my own research on the legitimacy gaps of green capitalism in Serbia & Hungary 👇 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
Benjamin BraunExcited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵
The Hungarian public broadcaster, one of the nastiest propaganda mouthpieces under Orban, just went dark & apologized for years of lying. 📺 Here’s to brighter days. 444.hu/2026/07/07/b...
What’s next? Integrity concerns from Viktor Orbán? 🤭
Finbarr BerminghamMaking Sepp Blatter look like Nelson Mandela here