Besides Vladimir Putin, who has benefitted the most from the terrorist attacks in Paris and from the wave of fear that has gripped Europe? Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, as well as several other populist leaders from Central Europe, are doing their best not to let this crisis go to waste, using it to boost their approval ratings at home and gain—and in some cases regain—friends abroad.
In past few months, the refugee crisis has enabled Orbán to lure back voters who had previously deserted Fidesz in favor of the neo-Nazi Jobbik Movement for a Better Hungary, a group that has been reinventing itself, much like Front National in France, as a mainstream, respectable group. In his opposition against the mandatory refugee quotas proposed by the European Commission in September Orbán has been joined by Slovakia’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Robert Fico, who, after the terrorist attacks in Paris, “[is] not interested in any musings about ethics, at a time when people’s lives and state security are at stake.”
The leader of Poland’s governing Law and Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, famously warned against the refugees’ spreading tropical diseases. The President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, another Social Democrat, thought it a good idea to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution at an anti-Muslim rally, whose convener is being prosecuted for inciting religious hatred.
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