Tamás Boros
Tamas Boros is a political analyst and the co-director of Policy Solutions, a political research institute with bases in Brussels and Budapest. He is also member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). Leading news channels have invited him on their programmes as a political commentator, while he also frequently gives interviews to prominent international newspapers (e.g. Financial Times, The Economist). His publications and articles mainly focus on the state of democracy, right wing extremism and populism.
He previously worked as a specialist in EU communications for the European Commission and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had also served as the director of the Pillar Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting European values, for four years.
He previously worked as a specialist in EU communications for the European Commission and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had also served as the director of the Pillar Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting European values, for four years.
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Studies (FEPS) and Policy Solutions examine how the V4 countries
reacted to the crises in Ukraine, what political and economic support they
offered Ukraine and how they have helped or impeded Ukraine’s
Euro-Atlantic integration in the past years.
not simply a one-off emergency situation that needed to be
momentarily managed. The mass arrival of refugees in the region
created entirely new political framework conditions that compelled
the parties to fundamentally rethink their policies and values.
In this book, FEPS and Policy Solutions present studies from Austria,
Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary to analyse the approach
of the Central European left-wing parties towards migration, with
the aim of identifying a common pattern, understanding motives
and drives, and formulating recommendations on how to deal with
the refugee question and other issues related to migration in a
progressive way, consistent with the fundamental value of solidarity.
have been monitoring approximately 80 active populist parties in the
EU since 2015, under the auspices of The Progressive Post’s Populism
Tracker research project. This volume surveys the state, popularity
and influence of populist parties in the EU’s 28 Member States in
2016.
In this book, we examine the countries in which populist parties
were able to achieve real breakthroughs, and those in which they
caused ‘more smoke than fire.’ We overview the differences between
individual populist parties, and readers can also find a detailed table,
listing all significant European populist parties and their current
popularity according to opinion polls.
trends of the year 2015, then populism will be definitely
among the first terms to come to mind. Populism is
massively gaining ground in the European Union, and
its increasing strength has a substantial impact on the
European left in particular. Not only because in many
countries populists tend to attract traditional left-wing
voters, but also because established party systems based on
the competition between major social-democratic/centreleft
and conservative/Christian Democratic parties are
undergoing a transformation, with the result that previously
bipolar systems are increasingly likely to become tri-polar.
of 20 – largely homogenous – social groups that Policy Solutions
identified and analysed on the basis of a large-sample poll conducted
by GfK Market Research. The aim of this research was to elucidate what kind of people vote for the various political parties in Hungary; what differentiates them from each other; and what factors lead these people to vote for one party rather than another.
part of the government’s policy.
Studies (FEPS) and Policy Solutions examine how the V4 countries
reacted to the crises in Ukraine, what political and economic support they
offered Ukraine and how they have helped or impeded Ukraine’s
Euro-Atlantic integration in the past years.
not simply a one-off emergency situation that needed to be
momentarily managed. The mass arrival of refugees in the region
created entirely new political framework conditions that compelled
the parties to fundamentally rethink their policies and values.
In this book, FEPS and Policy Solutions present studies from Austria,
Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary to analyse the approach
of the Central European left-wing parties towards migration, with
the aim of identifying a common pattern, understanding motives
and drives, and formulating recommendations on how to deal with
the refugee question and other issues related to migration in a
progressive way, consistent with the fundamental value of solidarity.
have been monitoring approximately 80 active populist parties in the
EU since 2015, under the auspices of The Progressive Post’s Populism
Tracker research project. This volume surveys the state, popularity
and influence of populist parties in the EU’s 28 Member States in
2016.
In this book, we examine the countries in which populist parties
were able to achieve real breakthroughs, and those in which they
caused ‘more smoke than fire.’ We overview the differences between
individual populist parties, and readers can also find a detailed table,
listing all significant European populist parties and their current
popularity according to opinion polls.
trends of the year 2015, then populism will be definitely
among the first terms to come to mind. Populism is
massively gaining ground in the European Union, and
its increasing strength has a substantial impact on the
European left in particular. Not only because in many
countries populists tend to attract traditional left-wing
voters, but also because established party systems based on
the competition between major social-democratic/centreleft
and conservative/Christian Democratic parties are
undergoing a transformation, with the result that previously
bipolar systems are increasingly likely to become tri-polar.
of 20 – largely homogenous – social groups that Policy Solutions
identified and analysed on the basis of a large-sample poll conducted
by GfK Market Research. The aim of this research was to elucidate what kind of people vote for the various political parties in Hungary; what differentiates them from each other; and what factors lead these people to vote for one party rather than another.