THE LAST TIME he served as Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban made himself a persona non grata in Washington...
Among the first acts of Mr. Orban's new government was a law granting passports to ethnic Hungarians living in other countries.
The passport measure might be dismissed as symbolic. But a second major initiative of the new government -- an attempt to impose sweeping new controls on the media -- is not.
The Washington Post, 19 July, 2010 (free registration required)