Hungary s Orban Looks East for COVID-19 Vaccines After EU Buy-up Falls Short © REUTERS / YVES HERMAN
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The European Union, whose Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted that no member state should begin vaccinations before any other, has only ordered enough of the Pfizer jab to immunise a third of its population, while ignoring available Russian and Chinese vaccines.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said his country will look to China for COVID-19 vaccines after Western suppliers and the European Union failed to meet its needs.
In a Sunday morning interview with Kossuth Radio, The PM said he was not happy with the pace of centralised vaccine procurement by Brussels. And he implied some Western nations outside the EU had early access to vaccines from drug
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[Lara Wodtke] Doing democracy during the pandemic
PUBLISHED :January 04, 2021 - 05:31
UPDATED :January 04, 2021 - 05:31
When COVID-19 emerged exactly one year ago, liberal democracy was in crisis. For the first time since 2001, there were more autocracies than democracies in the world. Right-wing populists were gaining traction.
Moreover, the norm of universal and inalienable human rights was under pressure from the governments of China, Russia, and even the United States under President Donald Trump. The repression of civil society and threats to the rule of law, the free press, and human rights continued unabated in many countries. And some democratically elected leaders (such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) had set out to dismantle liberal democracy from within, a trend some have called the third wave of autocratization.