European Voice
Hungary and Ukraine's leaders are at the forefront of an anti-democratic trend in Central and Eastern Europe, write Christopher Walker and Sylvana Habdank-Kołaczkowska from Freedom House Read the article here.
Negative developments in Hungary and Ukraine are at the forefront of an antidemocratic trend in Central and Eastern Europe that raises serious questions about the durability of the European Union’s young democracies,
Hungary's descent into the Partly Free category in Freedom House's just-released annual assessment of global media independence should set off alarms for those who believed the country's press freedom was firmly established. Read the full article here.
On December 20, the Hungarian Media Council reassigned the frequencies of three radio stations, removing one of Hungary’s only remaining independent stations, KlubRadio, from the airways. The Media Council’s decision to essentially ban KlubRadio is a major blow to media freedom in Hungary.
