CBC News Video: Overtime Law Sparks Protests In Hungary
- 18 Dec 2018 9:08 AM
Opposition demonstrators at a protest in central Budapest organised by independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy demanded the withdrawal of a recent amendment to the law on the right of assembly.
This year’s Budapest Pride march will go ahead as planned "and will be the biggest one yet", Gergely Karacsony, the city’s mayor, said on Facebook.
Judges held a demonstration in Budapest on Saturday for the freedom of the judiciary, organised by the Hungarian Judiciary Association (MABIE).
Pope Francis received Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an audience at the Vatican in Rome this Wednesday - as the video below shows. They discussed the war in Ukraine, focusing on the humanitarian situation and efforts to promote peace in the region. Francis also discussed other themes, including the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union as well as the "central role of the family and the protection of the young generations," the Vatican said in a statement.
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