Hungary has the trappings of a 21st-century European democracy, but uses its devices to exert the same kind of control as the autocracies of the Cold War.
Tag: Orban, Viktor
What Is Hungary’s ‘Slave Law,’ and Why Has It Provoked Opposition?
Viktor Orban’s government has faced a united opposition and unusually sustained street protests after it increased the cap for overtime to 400 hours a year.
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.
Opposition in Hungary Demonstrates Against Orban, in Rare Display of Dissent
The protests have become one of the most sustained displays of street opposition since the prime minister entered office.
Hungary Creates New Court System, Cementing Leader’s Control of Judiciary
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government will control hiring and promotion of judges in the new courts, which will rule on politically crucial matters like electoral law.
As Winter Arrives, Thousands of Migrants Are Trapped in Bosnia
Migrants sheltering in Bosnia report widespread violence by the border police in Croatia as Europe pushes to secure its frontiers.
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.
Orban and His Allies Cement Control of Hungary’s News Media
Hundreds of private outlets were simultaneously donated by their owners to a holding company run by allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister.
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.