With Hungary heading to elections on 12 April, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not only defending his position at home, but trying to push his self-described “illiberal democracy” model across Europe. At the centre of that effort is a think tank which aims to influence politicians in Brussels.
MCC Brussels is the European Union-facing branch of Mathias Corvinus Collegium – the Budapest-based organisation Orban’s government has turned into “the mouthpiece of the Orban regime in the EU quarter in Brussels", according to Olivier Hoedeman of the Corporate Europe Observatory research and campaign group.
