Introduction. The EU in Hungarian Media and Politics: Politicization, Instrumentalization, Polarization

Abstract

A research team from Corvinus University studied the image of European integration in Hungarian media and among the elite between 2021 and 2024. This volume presents selected results from this research. The introduction first outlines the social and institutional background and then analyses the phenomena of politicization, instrumentalization, and polarization, with a special focus on asymmetric polarization. It describes the methods used and the logic of the volume and concludes with questions about the social implications of polarization.