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HUNGARY’S REFUGEE RESPONSE IS COMPLEX, AND ORBAN’S ELECTION VICTORY MAKES IT HARDER STILL

Last week, Viktor Orbán was re-elected Prime Minister in Hungary by a landslide vote. His nationalist, anti-immigration, pro-Russian stance is at odds with the rest of Europe as thousands of Ukrainians flee into his country to escape the war. Panna Bencsik from Budapest-based street explains how the humanitarian response is divided along ethnic lines and redrawn borders

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