Orban raises summit stakes with ‘blackmail’ conditions

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban protected a parliamentary required in Budapest on Tuesday (14 July) to push the EU to end a rule-of-law probe and block connecting European funds to a rule-of-law condition. Orban’s judgment Fidesz party, which controls the Hungarian national assembly, embraced a resolution that contacts ending the so-called Short article 7 sanctions […]

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Critics warn of Orban ‘visual fallacy’ on ending special powers

Hungarian legislators on Tuesday (16 June) voted to call on prime minister Viktor Orban’s federal government to end the questionable special powers they had actually given him to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The parliament, controlled by a two-thirds bulk of Orban’s party plus its allies, voted by 192 to no to ask for the […]

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Orban government responds to Human Rights Watch

With his viewpoint short article, “Stopping the authoritarian rot in Europe,” Kenneth Roth joins what are now lots of critics who have actually turned to accommodating international media outlets to slam the Orbán government and insult the Hungarian people with the charge that Hungary’s amazing steps to battle Covid-19 quantity to “dictatorship.” What these critics […]

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Orban granted indefinite ‘authoritarian’ power

Hungary handed down Monday (30 March) a law that provides sweeping brand-new powers to prime minister Viktor Orban to rule by decree – for an endless time period. This makes Hungary the first EU nation to be put under the special command of the federal government for as long as the prime minister sees it […]

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Hungary’s Orban seeks indefinite power in virus bill

Hungary’s nationalist federal government sent a draft law to parliament Friday (20 March) that would allow it to rule by decree for an unrestricted time period, pointing out the corona emergency situation. The unique powers would make it possible for prime minister Viktor Orban’s federal government to “suspend the application of certain laws, derogate from […]

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