Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week
Happening now in Budapest: Anti-government protesters have occupied four bridges, opposing Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on freedom of assembly under the guise of “child protection.” Though aimed at the Pride march, Orbán’s law threatens banning any kind of protests or rally
19 hour ago@predsednikrs Aleksandar Vučić met today with Hungarian Defence Minister @SzBobrovniczky in Belgrade with whom he discussed the continuation of cooperation in the field of defense, as one of the most important aspects of cooperation between the two countries. Also signed a document that operationalizes and concretizes the Strategic Cooperation Agreement in the Field of Defense, which was reached in 2023. President Vučić also expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister @PM_ViktorOrban for everything he has done to improve Serbian-Hungarian relations
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The anti-Orban protest tonight in Hungary escalated to a bridge blockade
1 week agoPeople in Budapest protest against a law that limits freedom of assembly, a law that aims to ban the annual Pride march
Orbán’s close ally, Speaker László Kövér, banned the entire liberal Momentum party faction from parliament and fined them €175,000 for protesting Orbán's Pride crackdown—setting a precedent to ban other elected opposition MPs too
Hungary just became the first EU country to ban Pride events in Viktor Orbán's latest anti-LGBTQ crackdown, allowing facial recognition to identify and punish disobedient attendees. Liberal opposition MPs (Momentum party) protested inside parliament by using smoke grenades
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US Treasury OFAC is sanctioning Antal Rogan, a senior Hungarian government official, "for his involvement in corruption in Hungary."
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Hungary grants Poland's former Deputy Justice Minister, Marcin Romanowski, political asylum
