Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced plans to call a referendum on mandatory migrant quotas proposed by the EU as a solution to the current crisis engulfing Europe. Orban hinted he hoped Hungarians would reject the plan. Orban said that the referendum question would be: “Do you want the European Union to be able to mandatory settle non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary, even without... 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that by mid-September, Budapest should have a package of regulations in place to tackle the growing number of migrants. He said Hungarians are ‘full of fear’ because Europe is unable to ‘control the situation.’ “We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders, among... 

Demonstrators gather on the Kossuth Square in front of the Hungarian Parliament building during an anti-government demonstration, called Day of Public Outcry in Budapest, Hungary, November. 17, 2014. Over 10,000 Hungarians staged a protest in the country’s capital Budapest, calling for the ouster of the head of the tax authority and greater accountability from the government. Monday’s demonstration,... 

Demonstrators in Transylvania, a historical region in the central part of Romania, pay tribute to the Szekely flag. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures, calling on the government of Romania to grant regional autonomy to the Szekler Land. Szekler Land sits in three Romanian counties: Harghita, Covasna and Targu Mures, the first two of which have... 

Protestors call on Hungarian govt to repeal media law, ask premier to return to dissident past. Several thousand people have protested Hungary’s new media law and urged Prime Minister Viktor Orban to repeal or amend it. The law greatly expands the state’s power to monitor and penalize private news outlets. There are concerns it will be used against media critical of Orban’s centre-right... 

The Church of Homecoming Commemoration of the Victims of the Benes Decrees in the Church of Homecoming. Sudeten Germans deported and slaughtered following the introduction of the Benes Decrees in Czechoslovakia were commemorated in the Church of Homecoming on Sunday, 27 June. The Benes Decrees came into force between 14 May and 27 October 1945. Out of the 143 discriminatory decrees, denouncing both... 

Are you a Jew, a Gypsy or attracted to your own sex? Members of Hungarian opposition party Fidesz, widely expected to win power in spring 2010, may have a word or two for you. “I love Hungary, I love Hungarian people, and I prefer Hungarian interests to global financial capital, or Jewish capital, if you like, which wants to devour the whole world, but especially, Hungary,” said Fidesz Member... 

Hungarian police used teargas to disperse a protest by a banned far-right group in the centre of Budapest on Saturday and detained close to 200 people, police and witnesses said. National news agency MTI said police also detained the chairman of the far-right Jobbik party, Gabor Vona. Local website Index said he was detained as part of the protests. Police would not confirm the reports. A court ruled... 

This is the newspaper distributed by the Hungarian Police officers. “Given our current situation, anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews.” This quote appeared in a newsletter published by an organization calling itself “The trade union of Hungarian police officers prepared for...