There is no denying that 2015 was a great year for Viktor Orbán, the illiberal Prime Minister of Hungary, who made the most of Europe’s tragedies to transform himself from political pariah to ideological leader. While Time chose his nemesis German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “Person of the Year,” driven by convention and wishful thinking it seems, Politico declared “the conservative subversive” as the most influential person in the European Union.Although Merkel remains much more powerful than Orbán within Europe, I would still argue that 2015 went to the Mighty Magyar. While Merkel was at the center of both major …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
