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ASEAN should be thankful it does not have a Viktor Orban problem
The region’s ‘friends to all’ instinct, reflected in the latest State of Southeast Asia survey, is its greatest asset in an age of upheaval.
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As countries navigate today’s convulsive and ill-defined geopolitical landscape, ASEAN will urgently need to address its institutional dysfunctions and shore up its internal coherence, says the writer.
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In the European Union, the election defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been met with elation.
Long a spoiler of key collective foreign policy goals, the end of Mr Orban’s 16-year rule, at the hands of poll victor Peter Magyar, is being seen as a boon for Brussels.
