Magyar’s victory: a new era for Hungary?

The leading figure of Europe’s right-wing populists has lost, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung cheers, but so have their powerful Svengalis:

“Overcoming the paralysis of fear, breaking out of a false sense of safety to face the unknown, daring to embrace change over stagnation and decline – this is what shook up the Eastern Bloc forty years ago. Magyar’s election victory is a liberating coup for a despondent Europe: it proves that victory is possible even against those who demonise the EU. With Orbán’s defeat, the patron of Europe’s right-wing nationalists has lost. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have been shown the limits of their influence in Europe.”