Hungary blocks EU declaration on Israel-Palestine ceasefire

Some countries do not want the closing declaration of the coming NATO summit in Brussels to mention the Dayton Peace Agreement and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three constituent peoples but Croatia will not agree to that, President Zoran Milanović said on…

Lobbying by Poland and Hungary has led to the removal of the phrase “gender equality” from a Friday (7 May) declaration on advancing social cohesion in the European Union as it strives to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic. Poland’s nationalist…

Israel vowed Sunday (9 May) to restore order in Jerusalem after hundreds of Palestinian protesters were wounded in weekend clashes with Israeli security forces, as a key court hearing on a flashpoint property dispute was postponed.

Recent reports have confirmed the negative trend for media freedom in Hungary but also pointed to Budapest’s negative impact on press freedom in neighbouring countries. On World Press Freedom Day (3 May), EURACTIV talked to two of the main experts on Hungarian media.

The governing parties have submitted several new amendments to the anti-pedophile bill currently before parliament that some NGOs decried as a frontal attack on freedom of expression and children’s rights, following a Russian model. The amendments would ban the “promotion”…