Palma Fazekas is a senior news editor in the Budapest bureau of RFE/RL's Hungarian Service.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz party has introduced legislation in parliament that would blacklist organizations receiving foreign funding if they are deemed a “threat” to national sovereignty in what critics say is another move to crack down on dissent.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a nationalist who has held power in Hungary for the past 14 years, has issued a stinging rebuke of the European Union and called on his countrymen to help "occupy Brussels" in elections set for the bloc this summer.
Hungarian President Katalin Novak has resigned following public outrage over her pardon of a man convicted of being an accomplice to child sex abuse.
