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![]() "There is a world in which European peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside Europe. Orban’s government has maintained that Hungary is in great peril from hordes of migrants massing on its borders, and as a result he has been spouting increasingly nationalist and xenophobic rhetoric. Like several others in the region (Poland, Russia), the authoritarian state casts itself as the protector of traditional - read Christian - European values. ![]() The "illiberal democracy" agenda of the regime is seen as posing a significant threat to Western democratic norms. For some time now this far-right nationalist regime has been implementing reforms of the judiciary, media ($$$% of which is now under its direct control) and civil society, this has brought Hungary many times into conflicts with the European Union over values (all while pocketing EU money). Orban and the Fidesz party are part of the european shift towards illiberalism and indeed are among its more prominent manifestations. It is symptomatic that the EAA Executive Board has only issued "a response to concerns about the LGBTQA+ policy of the host country" but apparently there is no mention of any of the other policies of this problematic populistic central European regime. I am really surprised by this, given archaeologists' concern about social and political issues as the modern world context in which the discipline functions. ![]() This year, the 28th EAA Annual Meeting is being held in Budapest, Hungary, 31 August - 3 September 2022. ![]()
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