L’ILLIBÉRALISME, SYMPTÔME D’UNE DÉMOCRATIE EUROPÉENNE MALADE
ILLIBERALISM, A SYMPTOM OF A SICK EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an analysis of illiberalism, embodied by Viktor Orbán, which refers to a hybrid regime combining formal democratic institutions with authoritarian practices. Emerging from the rejection of Western liberalism in former communist countries, it took root in Hungary and Poland, and later spread to the Balkans through regimes like Serbia’s stabilocracy, tolerated by the European Union in the name of regional stability. This phenomenon is also gaining ground in Western Europe, notably in France, with the rise of the far right and the erosion of the Rule of law. Far from obstructing this contagion, the European Union appears to accept it, thus contributing to the normalization of illiberal democracy across the continent.

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