We first met almost 30 years ago, right after the Berlin Wall came down, at a meeting of dissidents held in France’s embassy in Budapest.President François Mitterrand had asked me to prepare a report on how France could contribute to the reconstruction of the countries of central Europe after the lifting of the communist yoke.At the time, Viktor Orbán was one of the brightest figures in the victorious opposition to the Soviet order. He was the young author of a master’s thesis on the Polish Solidarity movement, which he wrote while attending Oxford with the help of a grant …read more
Source: The Atlantic
