Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For decades, Afghanistan has been a major source of the world's opium poppies and thus heroin,

and the country produces mountains of hashish too. Now methamphetamines are on the rise,

thanks in part to the native Ephedra bush. And back in the 1970s, commercial radio was saturated

with a particular sort of breezy, unchallenging music.

Decades later, the genre got a name, Yacht Rock.

Now, those same tracks are creeping back onto playlists, perhaps for the same sociological reasons.

First up though. Any hopes they had of stopping the West Berliners destroying the wall were soon dashed.

As dozens of young men pulled on a rope and chains, the chant went up, Maurveig, down with the wall.

After the fall of communism in 1989, Hungary turned to democracy.

Its new political system would be held up as an example for other central and eastern European states.

That's not the case today.

Its current democratically elected leader is Victor Orban. He's held office once before for four years from 1998. He was re-elected in 2010, and there's little sign he's going to lose his job anytime soon.

I think migration is stoppable.

In many countries, especially in West Europe,

politicians try to convince the people that it's not possible to stop,

but I think it's not true.

Mr. Orban's anti-immigrant rhetoric

and the accompanying policies of his party, Fidej,

mean he remains popular in a country that has little ethnic diversity.

But he's also taken worrying steps to ensure his job security, steps that have catalyzed Hungary's

slide into autocracy. What Victor Orban has achieved over the past nine years in Hungary is to hollow out a European democracy so that it's

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