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By Robert Anderson in Prague Central Europe’s populists have clamoured to congratulate Donald Trump for winning the US presidential election but it is far from clear that the region will benefit from his victory. Central Europe contains some of the loudest Trump fanboys in the world, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Polish President Andrzej Duda and former and likely future Czech premier Andrej Babis. Some of them, such as Orban, have been proudly (and undiplomatically) backing Trump from almost the very beginning of his political career and they will be buoyed by his victory. …