Soldiers patrol the streets with their fingers on machine gun triggers. The army guards an exhibition center-turned-makeshift-hospital crowded with rows of metal beds for those infected with the coronavirus. And Serbia’s president warns residents that Belgrade’s graveyards won’t be big enough to bury the dead if people ignore his government’s lockdown orders.
Read moreA federal court in Washington denied the Hungarian government’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by 14 of nearly 825,000 Hungarian Jews subjected to the “horrors of the Holocaust at the hands of the Hungarian government.” The plaintiffs seek restitution for property seized from them during World War II.
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Hungary wrongly and unfairly drew up regulations that forced a university set up by American billionaire George Soros to move many of its classes to Vienna, a European magistrate said Thursday.
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The European Union’s highest court found Tuesday that a Hungarian tax on phone companies doesn’t violate EU law.
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Backing Google in a tax dispute Tuesday, Europe’s highest court chucked a $3.5 million fine related to advertising sales in Hungary.
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Hungarian regulations on nongovernmental organizations conflict with European Union law, a European Court of Justice magistrate held Tuesday in the latest in the clash between the EU and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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With another member approved Monday, European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen is set to begin the new session of her executive body next month.
Read moreAlready delayed by a month, President-elect Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission took a step forward Tuesday with the initial approval of three commissioners.
Read moreProtections for freedom of speech extend into the workplace, the European Court of Human Rights clarified Tuesday in the case of a bank employee fired for writing online articles about human resources issues.
Read moreWith overcrowded Greek migrant camps facing explosive new problems, a top EU legal adviser said Thursday that Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke European Union law by refusing to comply with a refugee quota program meant to address such challenges.
Read morePrime Minister Viktor Orban’s dominant right-wing Fidesz party suffered large losses in Sunday’s local elections in Hungary.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the CEO of a Hungarian oil and gas company cannot bring his fight against Croatia prosecutors to the court because he hasn’t exhausted his legal options in the Croatian judicial system.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice slammed Hungary on Tuesday for canceling the land-use rights of non-Hungarian nationals within its borders.
Read moreHungary failed Wednesday to secure a Supreme Court detour in the suit it faces from Holocaust survivors whose property was stripped from them as they boarded trains destined for concentration camps.
Read moreThe European Union’s most powerful political force, a European-wide collection of conservative parties, suspended Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s far-right prime minister who is seen by many as a dangerous autocrat undermining the European Union.
Read moreThe European Parliament’s main center-right group this month will discuss whether Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party should remain a member, amid anger over the anti-immigrant leader’s latest campaign against European Union leaders.
Read moreA top European Union official has lashed out at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over election campaign posters alleging that EU headquarters has purposely weaken the bloc’s external borders to let in more migrants and provide easy visas.
Read moreA Hungarian court has sentenced to prison two former executives of an alumina plant involved in the 2010 red sludge flood, an industrial disaster which killed eight people and injured more than 220.
Read moreThere seems to be no end in sight for large-scale anti-government protest movements in France, Hungary and Serbia. If anything, the desire to protest is likely to broaden across Europe as crucial European elections in May draw nearer.
Read moreA season of fierce protests in Europe has hit Budapest, the capital of Hungary and seat of government of Viktor Orban, a far-right nationalist president who has openly slammed the European Union as a model of liberal democratic politics.
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