Video Opinion: Hungary Muzzles Journalists Via Coronavirus Emergency Powers
- 11 May 2020 7:38 AM

Source:
Deutsche Welle in English
Source:
Deutsche Welle in English
Dunja Mijatović, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, said in a memorandum that it was “high time for Hungary to restore journalistic and media freedoms”.
Commenting on the verdict of the Kúria (the supreme court), liberal lawyers express outrage, while a representative of the plaintiffs believes it was high time to punish a journalist whom he accuses of ‘regularly offending the dignity of Hungarians’.
Though Viktor Orbán’s narrative of illiberalism as the natural next step in the evolution of Christian-conservatism suffered another major blow on the international stage, the recent departure of Fidesz from the European People’s Party (EPP) will have little to no domestic implications.
As opinion polls put the opposition parties combined at just over 50 per cent of probable voters, pundits in left-liberal weeklies ponder their chances and the tools available to them, to defeat Fidesz next year.
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