In late 2023, the Polish prime minister wrote the modern playbook on unwinding years of entrenched illiberal rule. Now, Magyar is looking to apply it, especially as the two leaders expressed a similar to-do list across three key areas.<\/p>\n
To bypass an opposition president, Andrzej Duda, Tusk\u2019s government used a parliamentary resolution to instantly dismiss state broadcast management, literally taking the network offline overnight. Magyar is threatening the exact same shock therapy.<\/p>\n
Following a heated interview last week on public television, which he likened to North Korean propaganda, he explicitly vowed to suspend the national broadcaster’s actual signal the moment he takes office.<\/p>\n
And for the judiciary, both leaders made joining the European Public Prosecutor’s Office a day-one priority, reversing their predecessors’ refusals to participate.<\/p>\n
Tusk is still struggling to implement a full judicial reform. He has faced severe gridlock, requiring complex legal acrobatics to bypass presidential vetoes. Magyar, however, wields a two-thirds constitutional majority. EU officials are already in Budapest negotiating the release of \u20ac10.4bn in recovery funds, knowing Magyar has the parliamentary numbers to push the necessary reforms.<\/p>\n
Finally, Tusk rapidly purged the management boards of state-owned enterprises, with the oil giant Orlen being the most famous example.<\/p>\n
And Magyar is preparing a similar sweep across Hungary’s state-backed institutions. He plans to recover state assets and cut funding to ideological networks like Mathias Corvinus Collegium, or MCC.<\/p>\n
However, this strategy could have downsides. Rushing invites legal missteps and advocates of the outgoing governments argued that neither Orb\u00e1n nor Morawiecki directly obstructed the transition.<\/p>\n
One thing is certain: from illiberal to liberal transitions, the new approach seems to rely on shock therapy to dismantle the old system overnight.<\/p>\n
Watch the Euronews video in the player above for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In late 2023, the Polish prime minister wrote the modern playbook on unwinding years of entrenched illiberal rule.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[35680,35681,35682,182,35684,35683,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-64904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warsaw","8":"tag-andrzej-duda","9":"tag-magyar","10":"tag-parliamentary-resolution","11":"tag-poland","12":"tag-shock-therapy","13":"tag-tusk","14":"tag-warsaw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116439149811504061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}