Ferenc Laczó

Oct 7, 2024 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Shahd Abusalama

The mass murder committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians one year ago – in which over 1200 people were killed and over 250 people taken hostage, more than half of whom have since been killed or remain unaccounted for – has traumatized Israeli society. Not since the Holocaust have such heinous crimes been committed against Jewish people. The victims of Hamas’s act of mass terror were civilians.

Sep 23, 2024 | eurozine.com | Judith Butler |Ferenc Laczó |Claire Potter

Ferenc Laczó, editor at the Review of Democracy (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest), in conversation with  Judith Butler. Ferenc Laczó: Your new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, critiques what you call the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’. You argue that this movement has made gender into a site where intimate fears and anxieties gather and become socially organized. There is a phantasm at the very heart of this movement, you underline.

May 23, 2024 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Réka Kinga Papp |Péter Krekó

Since the war in Ukraine, the Visegrád Four no longer articulates a common voice in the EU. Even the illiberal marriage of inconvenience between Hungary and Poland has broken up. Yet in various ways, the region still demonstrates to Europe the consequences of the loss of the political centre.

May 9, 2024 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Réka Kinga Papp

May 9th marks the anniversary of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community that would merge economic interests. It was the first step towards unifying great powers of Europe. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the prospect of peace and unity brought countries together, eventually birthing the European Parliament in 1958. Since then, the EU has grown exponentially, geographically and in institutional maturity.

Aug 11, 2023 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Réka Kinga Papp |John Keane |James Miller

Long standing Eurozine contributor, Ferenc Laczó joins editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp to talk about how a democracy can be alive and dead at the same time. With the Hungarian example as backdrop, they describe what democratic disintegration looks like – the early indicators, the pace, and how to identify democratic death threats. Laczó joined the discussion about how democracies die in the Eurozine focal point ‘The writing on the wall’ with his article ‘How democracies transform, fast and slow’.