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Hungary 'won't accept ECJ ruling' on migrant transit zones.

It relates to the case of four migrants from Afghanistan and Iran, who had their applications rejected by Hungarian authorities.

14/05/2020

Hungary

Viktor Orban provokes neighbours with historical map of Hungary

The image showed the former Hungarian territory before it was broken up after the First World War.

08/05/2020

Hungary

Nine die in Hungary after hospital ejection to free space for COVID-19

The government sent a letter to hospitals in early April, demanding that half of the country's 68,000 hospital beds be made available to COVID-19 patients. According to Human Rights Watch, at least nine people have died as a result.

07/05/2020

My Europe Series

Europe's week: Riots, rackets and reckonings

Euronews' Brussels bureau looks back at key developments across the continent this week.

24/04/2020

World News

Analysis: How should the EU deal with 'totally incompatible' Hungary?

Our political editor, Darren McCaffrey, asks how serious the EU is in its approach to Hungary.

20/04/2020

Hungary

'Simply fake': Hungary hits back over criticism of Orban's new powers

Hungary's foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, insists Orban's new powers will only be related to the 'pandemic situation'.

20/04/2020

Poland

Euroviews. First Hungary, now Poland. It’s time for Europeans to speak out against COVID-19 power grabs ǀ View

If Hungary has become the European Union’s first coronavirus autocracy, Poland looks set to be the second.

15/04/2020

Hungary

Euroviews. The EU needs to stop funding Viktor Orbán’s emergency rule ǀ View

If experiences of a decade of dialogue on the rule of law are any indication, Orbán is unlikely to be halted by diplomatic reminders about good practice during a pandemic.

07/04/2020

World News

Analysis: Is Hungary dumping democracy amid coronavirus crisis?

Most countries introduced time-limited emergency laws to respond to the coronavirus crisis. Except Hungary.

06/04/2020

My Europe Series

Covid-19: What are the consequences for small and medium enterprises?

Unreported Europe explores the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on small and medium enterprises in Bulgaria, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

03/04/2020

World News

Five stories you may have missed due to coronavirus

A stolen masterpiece, Hungarian democracy being questioned -- and not forgetting Brexit, here are the stories you may have missed this week.

03/04/2020

Europe News

'There is definitely a clause' to scrap Orban's state of emergency

The Hungarian emergency law would enable Prime Minister Viktor Orban to rule by decree. This happens in other countries, but critics say the Hungarian emergency law has no clear limitation in time - therefore a risk for the rule of law.

02/04/2020

Luxembourg

Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic guilty of rejecting refugees - ECJ

Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic breached EU law by failing to take in refugees, rules European Court of Justice

02/04/2020

Europe News

Tusk urges expulsion of Orban's Fidesz from European People's Party

The request comes after Hungary voted through sweeping new powers for Viktor Orban to rule by decree amid the coronavirus pandemic.

01/04/2020

Europe News

'Absolutely unacceptable': MEP slams Hungary's emergency COVID-19 law

'It means the suspension of parliamentary democracy in Hungary,' said one MEP, reacting to Hungary's emergency coronavirus legislation

31/03/2020

Hungary

Hungary's Viktor Orban handed sweeping new powers with COVID-19 law

The law will allow Hungary's government to pass legislation without parliamentary scrutiny and impose five-year jail terms on those accused of spreading fake news about the virus.

30/03/2020

Europe News

Politics on lockdown: see how MEP Katalin Cseh keeps up with Brussels business in Budapest

We are asking MEPs to invite us into their homes during self-isolation to see how they continue their parliamentary work far from Brussels.

25/03/2020

Hungary

Hungary human rights alarm as MPs mull new COVID-19 law

If enacted the new law potentially allows Viktor Orban's government to bypass Parliament during the COVID-19 state of emergency.

23/03/2020

Hungary

Euroviews. Hungarians should be rising to the challenge of the coronavirus outbreak in spite of Orbán ǀ View

The Orbán government's response to the coronavirus outbreak is not surprising given its track record over the last decade. But now is the time for Hungarians to seize the moment and take matters into their own hands.

21/03/2020

Hungary

Danube boat crash: Ukrainian captain on trial for deadly collision

Twenty-seven people died in the disaster. One person is still missing.

11/03/2020