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Migrants wait in the transit zone where their asylum claims are processed in Tompa, Hungary, June 14, 2017.

Why is Hungary withholding food from migrants in its border zones?

31/07/2019

Abidjan Principles must pass three crucial tests in order to strengthen right to education ǀ View

Increasingly autocratic States are pushing nativist narratives through national curricula, where schools face more centralized political controls and where the academic freedom of teachers is under attack. Are the Abidjan Principles robust enough to support the fight back against these tendencies?

26/03/2019

Hungary

Hungary covers up some anti-EU posters during Manfred Weber's visit

The billboards were covered on the road from Budapest's airport to the city centre but left bare in the other direction.

13/03/2019

state of the union

State of the Union: family feuds, eurosceptic wave and generation climate

The European Parliament's biggest political force, the EPP group, took a double hit: latest election poll projections seem them taking a dive, and then political infighting threatens to divide them. It comes as eurosceptic groups are rising, but this week we met some young anti-populists in Brussels

22/02/2019

Hungary

Hungary takes aim at EU's Jean-Claude Juncker in new campaign poster

The Hungarian government revealed its new campaign poster on Monday afternoon, which takes aim at European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros

19/02/2019

Adrien Beauduin pictured during happier times.

Hungary

Student's police assault charge from Hungary's 'slave law' protest

The 32-year-old, a PhD student at the George Soros-backed Central European University (CEU), said he was present at the "slave law" protests in support of trade unions.

22/12/2018

Hungary

Hungarians march against Soros university closure plans

The George Soros-backed Central European University is under pressure to leave Budapest, and many people are unhappy at the government's campaign against it.

24/11/2018

Hungary

Austria's Kurz meets with billionaire George Soros to discuss CEU move to Vienna

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz meets with investor George Soros to discuss moving the Central European University from his native Hungary to Vienna. The Hungarian government has up to December 1 to decide the fate of the university.

19/11/2018

Hungary

Suspected bomb found outside home of billionaire Soros, say police

A suspected bomb has been found outside the home of George Soros, a billionaire hate figure for right-wing campaigners in eastern Europe.

23/10/2018

world news

As it happened this morning: Thursday 21 June

Keep up-to-date with all the breaking news and trending stories from Thursday, June 21

21/06/2018

Hungary

Second Saturday protest tackles Hungary government on media freedom

Tens of thousands rallied for the second successive Saturday in Budapest, this time against against media controls and the proposed clampdown on civic groups by Viktor Orban’s government.

22/04/2018

Hungary

Soros Open Society Foundation considers quitting Budapest

Hungarian government seeking to pass law banning its activity.

20/04/2018

Hungary

Alarm in Hungary over 'intimidatory' list of ‘Soros mercenaries’

The Budapest university founded by George Soros has joined in the condemnation after a pro-government magazine published a list of academics and others, accused of wanting to overthrow Viktor Orban's government.

12/04/2018

Hungary

Moscow, migration and a muzzled media: Hungary’s election explained

Everything you need to know about Hungary's general election and why you should care.

27/03/2018

Hungary

Hungary’s foreign minister calls his Luxembourg counterpart "an idiot"

Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto has hit back at Jean Asselborn’s claims that Viktor Orban was a “dictator”.

21/02/2018

United Kingdom

Soros defends funding anti-Brexit groups

Billionaire financier George Soros has been told to 'butt out' of British politics after he contributed thousands of pounds to anti-Brexit groups

11/02/2018

Billionaire investor George Soros (left)

United Kingdom

Soros donates to anti-Brexit group

Billionaire investor George Soros has invested nearly half a million pounds into anti-Brexit group Best for Britain which plans to start an advertising campaign this month

08/02/2018

Davos

7 things from Davos 2018 that people were really talking about

Trump's 'fake news' rant grabbed international headlines but on social media, users were discussing a wealth of other key subjects. Here are the posts that created the biggest buzz.

26/01/2018

Hungary

Hungary extends deadline for 'Soros plan' survey

The Hungarian government has extended the deadline to send back its "National Consultation" questionaire about migration and what it calls the "Soros plan".

24/11/2017