CBC News Video: Overtime Law Sparks Protests In Hungary
- 18 Dec 2018 9:08 AM
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European People's Party leader Manfred Weber are seeking to "topple the sovereigntist Hungarian government" and replace it with a "Brussels-style administration", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio in an interview broadcast.
The leader of Hungary's opposition Tisza Party called for "a boycott of the propaganda media's products" at a demonstration held at the headquarters of MTVA, the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), on Saturday afternoon.
Students, teachers, parents and their supporters gathered on Monday in front of the interior ministry to protest against the firing of the director of the Madach Secondary School in Budapest - as the video below shows.
In an article published in the Financial Times on Tuesday on the occasion of Hungary’s assuming the European Union’s rotating presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán elaborated on the topic of restoring the EU’s competitiveness. He noted that Hungary was now serving its second EU presidency 13 years after its first one.
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