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a coffin carried by journalists desperate is all that is left of press freedom in Hungary, according to the 250 protesters who ventured into the streets of Budapest last month to protest against a wave record without layoffs in the media.

At the end of June, 570 writers and technicians employed by MTV and Duna TV, radio and news agency MTI State have been notified. About 500 more (a total of about 3000) is likely to follow suit at the end of the summer. In the main state channel, Duna TV, the production team working on a weekly schedule of the Roma minority was rejected.

opposition parties were outraged by this "political purge" by the right-wing government of Viktor Orban, who has been in power since May 2010. Last fall, all media were merged into one organization, MTVA, the task of producing all the news. The rationale for the layoff, the spokesman MTVA, Agnes Cserhati, cited the need to reduce the size of the bloated public sector.

hundreds of public and private sectors, journalists fear for their future, which probably explains the low participation in the event of July. "Anyone who dares to voice criticism is treated as an enemy of the state," said the correspondent of Radio Budapest State in Austria.

The new media law, which came into force on July 1, caused an uproar in other parts of Europe where it was approved last December, but has since been strengthened. The Media Council (appointed for nine years and controlled by the henchmen of Orban) now has the power to dissolve held and public companies to refuse to renew the broadcasting license of the private radio or television, if one has " debt "to the Council.

The head of the supervisory board, Annamaria Szalai, which began publishing a pornographic magazine, was sentenced to a fine of $ 1.25 in the commercial channel RTL Klub to display a program to discuss the issue of gender as a warning to minors.

The Media Council also left Népszava sanctioned newspaper, which is in dire financial straits. The document is not to censor the comments of a reader who would have been offensive to the Hungarian President.

Continuing its relentless campaign, the overwhelming majority of right at parliament passed a law in early July of benefits changing. Unemployment benefits will now only pay for 90 days and September 1 any person who receives a national support will be required to participate in community service, street cleaning, maintenance of parks and forests, and work in construction projects two stages in Budapest and Debrecen. If they refuse to comply, they will be removed from the list of benefits, depending on the new constitution under which fundamental rights may be restricted on the basis of values ??such as faith and loyalty.

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Policy Institute, with support from the Soros Foundation, which funds programs to help Roma, intends to file a complaint with the Constitutional Court challenge of the "degrading" of rules. However, five new judges were simply appointed to the bench is likely to cause many problems Orbán. One of them, István Balsa inner circle belongs to the Deputy Prime Minister and parliamentary advocates the supremacy of the judiciary.

The three main opposition parties - the Socialists (MSZP), the Green Liberal (PSL) and the far-right party Jobbik - expressed concern on the proposed electoral reform game should be presented Parliament this fall. The bill would give any party to take 45% of the vote up to three quarters of the seats. Fidesz would ensure that remains in power in the coming years.

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