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News Articles: Hungary

A ballet dancer warms up before an open rehearsal at the Audi automobile factory in Gyor, Hungary, on Thursday. The Ballet Company of Gyor is rehearsing at the factory after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.

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  • Europe

An energy crunch forces a Hungarian ballet company to move to a car factory

The Ballet Company of Gyor began rehearsing at a local Audi factory last month after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Lawyers gather in a demonstration against the Israeli government's controversial plans to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Tel Aviv District Court of Justice on Jan. 12. The new justice minister Yariv Levin outlined proposals such as allowing politicians to override Supreme Court decisions.

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  • Middle East

Israel's far-right government wants the power to override its Supreme Court

Despite huge protests, Israel's new far-right government is doubling down on its first major initiative: to weaken the judiciary. Hungary and Poland's far-right did the same when they entered office.

February 04, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has a plum speaking role at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, despite a speech last week widely decried as racist. One of his top aides resigned in protest.

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  • Politics

Why conservatives invited Hungary's autocratic leader to headline Dallas event

Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has suppressed civil liberties and intimidated media and corporate critics, will address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas.

August 04, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives his an international press conference April 6, days after his FIDESZ party won the parliamentary election, in the Karmelita monastery housing the prime minister's office in Budapest.

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  • Energy

One man stands between Europe and a ban on Russian oil: Hungary's Viktor Orban

The move has to be adopted unanimously, and Hungary — with a state oil company dependent on Russian imports and a populist leader friendlier toward Putin than most — has refused to go along.

May 12, 2022
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By:
  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
Supporters of United For Hungary, the six-party opposition coalition, chant the national anthem during the final electoral rally in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2022.

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  • Europe

The opposition in Hungary vows end to Orban's autocratic rule

A coalition of opposition parties made an appeal to voters before Hungary's election on Sunday, which decides whether nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will win a fourth consecutive term.

April 03, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at a news conference in Budapest on Feb. 17.

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  • Arts & Life

In Hungary, the arts are being suppressed by the government, a new report says

The Artistic Freedom Initiative contends that consolidated state power under right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and artists' self-censorship has led to an "existential crisis."

March 21, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A woman wearing the Ukrainian flag is handed a beverage at the train station in Przemysl, Poland,  on Thursday. Ukrainians have been welcomed into Poland and other neighboring countries as they flee Russian attacks.

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  • Europe

Race, culture and politics underpin how — or if — refugees are welcomed in Europe

The embrace of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion is far different from the cold shoulder refugees from the Middle East and Africa have received.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Nigerian students in Ukraine wait at the platform at the Lviv railway station on Sunday.

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  • World

International students are facing challenges as they try to evacuate Ukraine

Africans and South Asians studying and working in Ukraine have had added difficulty leaving the country because of discriminatory treatment by local authorities.

March 03, 2022
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  • Frank Langfitt and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Rozi Galambica in her home in Ozd, Hungary. Galambica attends university in the Netherlands.

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  • Europe

Hungarian Roma are translating Amanda Gorman; her poetry speaks to their experience

White European translators have hesitated to work on Gorman's poetry because of criticism that their race makes them inappropriate for the job. In Hungary, a marginalized community steps up.

January 29, 2022
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gives a press conference following a meeting of prime ministers of central Europe's informal body of cooperation, called the Visegrad Group (V4) in Budapest, Hungary, last month.

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  • World

A discomfort with Western liberalism is growing in Eastern Europe

People of the former Soviet bloc rejoiced when the Iron Curtain fell and embraced membership in the European Union. Hungary is an example of a growing culture clash in the conservative East.

December 04, 2021
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
Activists pose for a photo after raising a large rainbow heart in front of Hungary's parliament building in Budapest on Thursday. The activists are protesting against a new law they say discriminates against and marginalizes LGBTQ people.

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  • Europe

Hungary Bans LGBTQ Content From Schools, But Some Teachers Say They Will Defy It

Hungary is banning LGBTQ content from classrooms and media that reaches minors. Not if these educators can help it.

July 09, 2021
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By:
  • Esme Nicholson
Radio journalists work in the studio at the headquarters of the independent Hungarian radio station, the Klubradio in Budapest on Feb. 9. It was removed from the airways after the national media regulator would not renew its license, raising new press freedom concerns in the European Union member state.

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  • Europe

As Hungary Cuts Radio Station, Critics Say Europe Should Put Orban On Notice

Taking Klubradio off the air was the latest blow to press freedom in a country where the right-wing populist leadership and its allies have increased control and influence over the media.

March 08, 2021
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Zsolt Jeszenszky, creative director of Hungary's Pesti TV, hosts his talk show, <em>Political Hobbyist</em>. In Trump's refusal to concede, he hears a message for European nationalists: "If there is a system that's against you, you should fight, and you should not submit."

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  • World

Pro-Populist Media In Eastern Europe Promote Trump's Baseless Voter Fraud Claims

Media that are supportive of leaders in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia either repeat the false claims or suggest President-elect Joe Biden is part of a vast liberal conspiracy to stifle conservatives.

December 04, 2020
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
President Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in May 2019.

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  • World

After Trump, Europe's Populist Leaders Will Have 'Lost One Of Their Cheerleaders'

Leaders of nations like Poland, Slovenia and Hungary are having a hard time accepting that President Trump lost the election. Joe Biden says he is committed to rebuilding ties with the European Union.

December 01, 2020
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Protesters gather outside Poland's Supreme Court in January, demonstrating against the government's efforts to curtail the judiciary's independence. The European Commission is investigating Poland and Hungary for violating standards of democracy and rule of law.

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  • World

Hungary And Poland Block EU Budget With Pandemic Relief Funds For Hard-Hit Nations

The two Eastern European countries are in a long-running dispute with the European Union over their consolidation of state power and restrictions on free speech and an independent judiciary.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
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