Video: PM Orbán Calls EPP Critics 'Useful Idiots'
- 4 Mar 2019 10:45 AM
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In the course of its investigation into political pressure and disinformation campaigns in Hungary, the Sovereignty Protection Office has identified journalist Szabolcs Panyi as a "network agent financed and directed by persons with Democratic Party ties in the European Commission and the United States," the office said in a statement on Tuesday.
Hungary on Monday decided to block certain Ukrainian news portals as a reciprocal response to a similar move by Ukraine, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday.
Recent changes to Hungarian law give reason for concern, the European Union's commissioner for justice, democracy, and the rule of law said in Strasbourg on Wednesday, adding that "the so-called child protection law breaches EU law on a number of accounts".
The opposition Democratic Coalition will sue the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister for access to data, to reveal "how much money has been burnt on the anti-Ukraine campaign", the party group's spokesperson said,
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