Now playing Next World Hungary’s Viktor Orban wants to destroy Europe, claims Verhofstadt Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt has claimed Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban is trying to destroy Europe. 06/11/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Orban supporters took 'EU-funded buses' to watch him slam EU A reader from a Hungarian news website noticed European Union flags on several of the vehicles and claimed they were local government minibuses, originally purchased with using EU rural subsidies 25/10/2018
Now playing Next World Raw Politics: Orban adopts a baby rhino Raw Politics: Orban adopts a baby rhino 22/10/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Homeless people face prison in Hungary after tough new law is passed At least three homeless people were arrested last week in Hungary after a law criminalising rough sleeping came into effect. 22/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Machiavellians put Brexit plans before human rights | View In order for Europe to be a champion of human rights globally, we have to get our own house in order first. 09/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Orban is not Hungary, like the Conservative Party is not the UK | View Any hopes that the new Foreign Secretary would tone down the rhetoric were quickly dispelled recently with Jeremy Hunt’s appalling and indefensible comparison of the EU to a ‘Soviet prison’- prompting Nigel Farage to remark that Hunt was now ‘talking his language.’ 06/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Shared values must be upheld in all EU countries | View Many of Orbán’s allies in the centre-right European People’s party (EPP) deserted him. Those expressing their disgust also included fellow Scottish MEPs from the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Conservatives. But it didn’t include most of the Conservative MEPs from England. 03/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Tories back Orban: Abstention would have sent different signal | View A large majority of the European Parliament voted to trigger article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty. This majority included many of Fidesz’s colleagues in the EPP (traditionally a very pro-EU grouping) whose affiliation to the EPP is being seriously tested by Fidesz’s membership, writes London's Green MEP. 02/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orban - Viktor Orban is no ally to be had These are turbulent times and the way the UK has conducted Brexit talks is threatening our future relationship with the EU. We can’t afford to alienate ourselves even more by offering Orban political support in exchange for his. 02/10/2018
Now playing Next world news Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán - Conservatives fear criticising Hungary | View It is clear that at the highest levels of the Cabinet, Conservative politicians are worried about criticising Hungary in any way, because they want to secure favourable treatment in the Brexit negotiations, writes British Labour MEP Theresa Griffin. 02/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Tories' support for Orban - 'disgraceful move' that echoes UKIP policy A thank you letter from a far right leader for showing solidarity is not something I would be proud for my party to be associated with. It's astonishing the level The Tories are prepared to stoop to in order to get support for their failed Brexit plan. 02/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán – Do Tories see democracy as a priority? It is important to note that the Tories sit in the European Parliament along with PiS, the Polish ruling party, who have taken very hostile actions against the independence of the judiciary in their country. These actions leave you wondering whether the Tories see democracy as a priority. 01/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Orbán's actions not a proxy for Brexit debate | View It is frankly shameful that the Conservatives were the only ruling party in Western Europe that voted to support Orbán and at a time when my nation needs friends more than ever before, this is hardly a successful strategy to make friends and influence people. 28/09/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán – It's clear that there was a trade Orbán deliberately tries to portray the Article 7 action as an attack on the Hungarian nation and people when it is actually a judicial process against his corrupt and anti-democratic government. 28/09/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Orban sends thank-you letters to MEPs who voted against Article 7 Article 7, often dubbed the "nuclear option", could see the EU impose sanctions on Hungary and restrict its voting rights. 25/09/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Euroviews. 'What if?' A View from a Fidesz MEP As Milan Kundera once wrote, one of the functions of Central Europe is to serve as an early warning system for Europe as a whole. This is what Fidesz has got right and that’s why it’s so widely detested. Nobody likes a successful prophet, after all. 24/09/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Orban says Hungary to appeal Article 7 in defiant message to Brussels Hungary's Prime Minister blasted teh Sargentini report as full of "absurdities." 19/09/2018
Now playing Next Europe News Socialist MEP tells Orban his is the 'most corrupt government in EU' Heated debate in European parliament on Hungary 11/09/2018
Now playing Next World Hungarian PM Viktor Orban to take part in European Parliament debate ahead of crucial vote Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is going to take part in a European Parliament debate about the "Sargentini" report, ahead of crucial vote on Wednesday. 11/09/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Euroviews. Fidesz's future, Article 7 - Two questions to Hungarian MEPs | View SZANYI: “I can only hope that finally the EPP leaders will prove to have sufficient political will, and leverage on Orbán to respect European values.” MOLNÁR: “I believe that the EPP should have launched the exclusion of Fidesz from its community a long time ago.” 10/09/2018