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Liberal Klubrádió will be silenced, after a Court rejected an appeal by the radio station against the media authority's decision not to renew its license.
Following the prison sentence of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was sent to prison for more than two and a half years on Tuesday, many Hungarian opposition politicians spoke up and condemned the verdict while also criticizing the Orbán government for not commenting on the incident.
Expressing support for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is a “moral obligation, just like it is an obligation to protect Russian democracy and the freedom of publicity, based on our common European values,” the mayor of Budapest said on Facebook on Wednesday.
“We are witnessing a cowardly attempt to intimidate the critics of the regime and silence the Russian people’s desire for freedom,” he added.
Jobbik Leader Jakab to Run in Pre-selection Vote for Opposition PM Candidate
Jobbik leader Péter Jakab announced he would run in the pre-selection process to determine who will become the joint opposition parties’ candidate for Prime Minister at the upcoming 2022 general elections. Jobbik is the first party of the joint opposition to nominate their candidate for the pre-selection vote.
Péter Jakab announced to become Jobbik’s nominee for the pre-selection process in his annual evaluation video uploaded to Facebook on Monday.
2020 is the beginning of the end for the [Orbán] government, with the opportunity for the country to start over, said Jakab, adding that during the pre-selection people are to decide who will be worthy to defeat Fidesz.
Despite more than one million signatures collected across Europe, the European Parliament’s and the Bundestag’s backing of the Minority SafePack citizens’ initiative urging EU protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, the European Commission eventually rejected it.
According to the EC’s Friday statement, a wide range of measures had been taken to address the issues outlined in the initiative since it was launched in 2013. “While no further legal acts are proposed, the full implementation of legislation and policies already in place provides a powerful arsenal to support the Initiative’s goals,” reads the statement.
Fact Minority SafePack initiative, launched by Romania’s ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party and coordinated by the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), contains a comprehensive set of measures to protect and promote the cultural and linguistic diversity of autochthonous national minorities in a sustainable way. It is not to be conf