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TEFI rejects Hungarian Sovereignty Office attacks
TEFI members – 444, Bellingcat, Gazeta Wyborcza, PressOne, and SME – categorically reject this defamatory campaign, which targets one of the last bastions of democratic institutions: the independent press.
"Active information warfare". Orban's propaganda targeting our consortium
Hungary's pro-government media machine has recently launched a massive smear campaign against 444.hu and Bellingcat (NL), while also targeting their international partners, PressOne (RO), Gazeta Wyborcza (PL), and SME (SK). These outlets cooperate in a cross-border journalistic project, The Eastern Frontier Initiative (TEFI) covering regional security, co-financed by the European Commission.
The "Sovereignty Protection Authority" is harmful and against the rule of law, yet it cannot intimidate independent media
The so-called "Sovereignty Protection Authority" will be an arbitrarily appointed body with unlimited powers, operating without any oversight. A joint statement by independent Hungarian papers in response to the newly adopted Sovereignty Protection Bill.
Funding cuts for foundation-run schools puts further strain on impoverished minorities
The decision hit organizations that see education as a great equalizer that can lift children from poverty - says Nóra Ritók, founder and director of the Igazgyöngy Alapítvány, which runs six art centers and offers extracurricular activities for about 600 disadvantaged children each year.
Conservative backlash against women’s rights in Hungary
Over the past decade a growing narrative has gained traction in Hungary, calling on women to embrace their fate as homemakers and caretakers as Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the self-appointed defender of Europe’s Christian values has steered the country towards a conservative, in his words “illiberal democracy.”