#HUNGARY: Constitution Amended To Allow States Of Emergency

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The government has been given the power to declare a state of emergency in the case of an armed conflict, war, or humanitarian disaster in a neighbouring country, as parliament adopted the tenth amendment to the constitution on Tuesday. The legislation was passed with 136 votes for and 36 against. 

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#HUNGARY: Landslide Victory For PM Orbán's Party

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The final results of Hungary's parliamentary elections have been published, confirming a landslide victory of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition.

The Fidesz-KDNP coalition will take 135 of the 199 seats in Hungary's parliament, NVI informed on Saturday, after counting the last votes cast in the Parliamentary elections held on April 3.

The opposition alliance, consisting of the Democratic Coalition, Jobbik, LMP, Momentum Movement, Hungarian Socialist Party and Dialogue for Hungary, received 57 seats.

While some have said that Orbán's victory is a victory for Russia's Putin, due to Orbán's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and his long-standing support for Putin, others have attributed the victory to purely national and local issues.

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#HUNGARY: New Law Prevents "Promotion Of Homosexuality" To Children

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Hungary’s parliament passed legislation on Tuesday that bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change, amid strong criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who faces an election next year, has grown increasingly vocal on social policy, railing against LGBT people and immigrants in his self-styled illiberal regime.

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#EU: Hungary's PM Orban Pulls Party From Conservative Bloc In EU Parliament

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pulled his Fidesz Party from the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament after the conservative bloc approveed new internal rules this week.

Orban issued the ultimatum that he'd act on February 28 in a letter to Manfred Weber, the German politician who heads the conservative EPP bloc, the largest faction in the European Parliament, representing the center-right parties in Europe.

The EPP parliamentary group, which includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, has been squabbling with Fidesz for years.

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#HUNGARY: Parliament Rejects EU Declaration On Gender

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Hungary’s parliament adopted a political resolution, sponsored by government coalition partner party, the Christian Democrats, rejecting the Istanbul Convention. The declaration said the Council of Europe document takes, an "unacceptable approach" to defining gender, and said parliament should not incorporate this approach into national law.

The declaration was adopted with 115 votes in favor, 35 against and three abstentions. It calls on the government not to go any further in acceding to the convention and to lobby the European Union to do the same.

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#HUNGARY: Opposition Parties Delay PM Orban's State Of Emergency Declaration

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Opposition parties voted against "fast-tracking a bill in parliament to allow Prime Minister Viktor Orban to declare a state of emergency.

The opposition voted against deviating from house rules, so the earliest the bill can be approved in a fast-tracked procedure will be in six days’ time.

The proposal to deviate from house rules – which would have needed four-fifth majority to pass – was supported by 137 lawmakers from the ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties, national minority representatives and four MPs of the Mi Hazank party. Fully 52 lawmakers voted against, namely opposition Jobbik, Socialist, Democratic Coalition, LMP and Parbeszed lawmakers and four independents.

The opposition said they voted against the bill because it does not contain a time limit for maintaining the state of emergency.

The proposal to fast-track the bill, which needed two-thirds majority support to pass, was supported with 152 votes for and 31 against.

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#CZECHIA: Parliament Passes Resolution Supporting Hungary's Defiance Of EU Parliament

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The Czech Chamber of Deputies have passed a resolution that criticized the European Parliament's vote last month which could lead to Article 7 proceedings against Hungary, which could strip it of its voting rights within the European Union, which criticizes Hungary for alleged undemocratic practices.

Hungary asserts that the EU is interfering in its internal affairs and is forcing it to take immigrants against its will. The resolution, which received support from several political parties, criticized the EU body's vote for interfering with Hungary's sovereignty. The vote was prompted, in part, after several Czech Members of the European Parliament supported the EP resolution against Hungary last month.

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#HUNGARY: Party of PM Viktor Orban Moves To Ban Gender Studies Programs

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Fidesz, the conservative party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has introduced legislation to shut down accredited gender studies programs offered by universities in Hungary. The ban will primarily impact students at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest - the only institution in Hungary, other than Central European University, to offer gender studies at the graduate level, and the only one to provide this program in Hungarian. Numbers of students affected would be low. Only 11 students have applied for the program this year.

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#HUNGARY: Parliament Passes "Anti-Soros" Bill; Makes It A Crime To Help Recent Immigrants

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Hungary’s parliament has passed a package of legislation making helping asylum seekers punishable with up to a year in prison. The legislation swept through a lower house of parliament dominated by the ruling Fidesz Party, in a 160 to 18 vote. Under the provisions of the "Stop Soros law," it becomes a criminal offence to carry out "organisational activities" that assist immigrants not entitled to protection with asylum requests, and to help people “residing illegally in Hungary” to get a residence permit.

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#HUNGARY: PM Orban Defiant At Mass Re-Election Rally; Condemns EU For Forced Mass Migration

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Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told a huge rally in Budapest that they must fight the "external forces and international powers" who want to allow mass immigration into their country. Orban is seeking a third consecutive term when elections take place on April 8.

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#HUNGARY: PM Orban Accepts His Party's Nomination To Seek Another 4-Year Term

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Hungary’s right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban accepted his ruling Fidesz Party’s endorsement on Sunday to lead it into an election next year, saying he needed another four-year term in power to make his transformation of the country "irreversible."

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#HUNGARY: PM Bills EU For Walk Construction

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Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is set to send the EU a bill for €400 million, in order to help pay for the fence it built to keep illegal migrants out.

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#EU: Far-Left Parties In EU Parliament To Investigate Whether Member State Hungary Is Still A Democracy

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In an unprecedented move, the European Parliament have called for the triggering of a check on the state of Hungary's democracy which could lead to the suspension of the country's EU voting rights. A resolution proposed by the socialists, far-left parties, the greens and the liberals to trigger Article 7 of the EU treaty was passed with a majority of 393 votes against 221. Votes from members of the center-right European People’s Party tilted the balance.

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#HUNGARY: EU Skeptic Said To Have Moderated His Stance Toward Complying With EU Laws

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised to respect EU law after the EU's conservative EPP party's leadership told him during a recent meeting that his attempts to close the Central European University and his open campaign against Brussels were "unacceptable." It's unclear whether this pledge - which followed the contentious meeting - will mean any kind of reversal in policy from Orban.

Pictured: PM Viktor Orban, left, on the way to the EU meeting Saturday.

#HUNGARY: Socialists Choose Popular Mayor To Run As PM In 2018

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The Hungarian Socialist Party has named the 43-year-old mayor of Szeged, László Botka, as its candidate for prime minister in the next parliamentary elections, expected in April 2018. Mr. Botka was merely 29 years old when he was first elected as mayor of Hungary’s third largest city in 2002 and he has since been re-elected three times. In the most recent 2014 municipal elections, Mr. Botka won in a landslide victory against his Fidesz opponent, beating him by 22 percent.

#HUNGARY: New Terror Law May Give Gov't Too Much Power, Says Opposition

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Hungarian lawmakers have voted for a constitutional amendment making it easier to declare a "terrorism state of emergency." Opponents say the move would give the government unfettered powers without justification.

#HUNGARY: Teachers' Demonstrate Against Gov't Education Policies

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Tens of thousands of people joined striking Hungarian teachers in the capital Budapest to demonstrate against the government's education policies. They are demanding less centralization, more curriculum choice, and better pay.

#HUNGARY: PM Orban Mobilizes Troops, Prisoners, Unemployed To Build Border Fences To Keep Migrants Out

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Built in a matter of weeks by soldiers, prison laborers and cadres of the unemployed, a vast new wall along Balkan frontiers is a monument to the ruthless efficiency with which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mobilized Hungary against Syrian migrants.

#HUNGARY: Laws Rushed Through Parliament To Crack Down On Migration Through Hungary

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As tens of thousands of migrant refugees crowded hastily-built camps, Hungary's parliament Friday rushed through legislation that cracks down on those who violate its borders. The laws give more power to police to deal with the crisis, including prison time of up to three years for illegally crossing Hungary’s border and penalties for damaging newly-installed razor-wire border fences.

#HUNGARY: Migrants Cut Through New Border Fence; Higher Fence Planned As 110,000 Illegally Enter

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Nearly two dozen illegal migrants have cut through a hastily-constructed wire fence that Hungary is building on its border with Serbia in an attempt to stop the flow of migration into the country. Nearly 110,000 have fled from Africa through Serbia and into Hungary. Most go on to Western European nations.