Quo vadis, Europe? After the crucial electoral year of 2017, populism has not disappeared. In 2018, another 10 EU countries - including Italy, Ireland, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Finland and Sweden - will hold general, presidential or local elections. Traditional parties are holding their breath again, facing the rise of populist rivals. How will Europe respond to this ongoing challenge to the established order?
Elections
The populist challenge
Orban win in Hungary means more headaches for Brussels
The re-election of Hungary's Viktor Orban may have delighted populists, but the anti-immigration leader's triumph looks set to prolong the fractious EU-Budapest relationship.
Orban’s Hungarian election victory draws right-wing cheer, EU warning
Right-wing leaders in France, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Austria and Germany congratulated Orban, who will be governing Hungary for a third consecutive term.
Hungary’s Orban set for third mandate after rocky campaign
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Europe's most controversial leaders, looks set to win a third consecutive term in office, despite a galvanised opposition tapping into voters' discontent.
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s rebel-turned-patriot premier
Hungary's strongman premier Viktor Orban, running for re-election on Sunday, is a poster boy for nationalists worldwide, the self-styled defender of Christian Europe and scourge of the "globalist elite"
Hungary, Europe’s ‘illiberal’ pioneer
Viktor Orban, standing for a third successive term as Hungary's prime minister, is best known outside the country for being at the forefront of the deepening division between the European Union's eastern and western members.
Hungary’s controversial PM set to win third straight term
Viktor Orban, a xenophobic populist whose changes to the electoral system and grip on the media have provoked criticism at home and abroad, is likely to win another term in office in election.