Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government has caged and starved people, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner reported. But such findings have had little effect in the past.
Tag: Budapest (Hungary)
Hungary Rolls Out Red Carpet for Obscure Russian Bank, Stoking Spy Fears
As the United States tries to blunt Russian influence, Hungary’s far-right leader is increasingly building bridges to Moscow.
In Eastern Europe, U.S. Officials Talk Deals, Not Erosion of Democracy
Promoting weapons sales and isolation of Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence did not speak out on the illiberal direction of some allies.
Hungarians Fume as Statue of Former Leader Is Downgraded
Imre Nagy, the communist prime minister executed for rebelling against the Soviet Union, is a hero to many in Hungary — but not to its far-right government.
Budapest Dispatch: Outside Hungary’s State Television: A Protest. On Air: Pigeon Talk.
Under Viktor Orban, Hungary has become a place of two parallel realities. But rarely have these two bubbles seemed so surreally far apart than during the past week of protests.
4 Lawmakers Assaulted in Hungary, as Protests Against Orban Continue
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has eroded Hungary’s democratic institutions, but largely avoided acts of state-led violence. That changed on Monday.
George Soros-Founded University Is Forced Out of Hungary
Central European University, founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been forced from its campus in Budapest by the increasingly authoritarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die
Origo was a popular, independent news outlet that made trouble for Hungary’s far-right leader, Viktor Orban. Relentless pressure changed all that.
Former Macedonian Leader Seeks Asylum in Hungary to Avoid Prison
The flight of Nikola Gruevski stoked outrage and threw up another challenge to the European Union.