{"id":390631,"date":"2018-12-26T21:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/orbans-latest-dance-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:37:30","slug":"orbans-latest-dance-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/orbans-latest-dance-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Latest Dance | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n of Hungary is not to be hectored to.\u00a0 Arching with fury at the EU\u2019s September motion to sanction Hungary for bad behaviour under the Article 7 process, he was resolved to ratchet things up.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-parliament-approves-hungary-censure-motion\/\">motion,<\/a> while getting 448 votes concerned about judicial independence, corruption, freedom of expression, academic freedom, the rights and migrants, amongst others did have 197 opponents. (48 abstained.) Spot, as it were, the east-west European divide.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when Hungary was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v34\/n12\/jan-werner-muller\/longing-for-greater-hungary\">known<\/a> as the \u201cmerriest barracks in the socialist camp\u201d dominated by more tempered form of \u201cgoulash communism\u201d.\u00a0 The merriment, not to mention any gastronomic softness, has long soured, substituted by a more patriotic, state-centred sludge.\u00a0 Protesters are now being given the treatment that would not have been unseemly in the times of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>A week-and-a-half of protests against the overtime law passed by the Fidesz majority yielded the police forces fifty arrests.\u00a0 Orb\u00e1n\u2019s ruling party could not see what the fuss was all about.\u00a0 The law in question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-46602736\">increases<\/a> the number of overtime hours employees can be made to work from 250 to 400, a calculation to be made after three years.\u00a0 Pity for those workers, given the exodus of Hungarian employees to western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition members of Parliament keen to get more coverage from the state media on the protests have also been frogmarched out of the broadcaster\u2019s headquarters.\u00a0 In future, they can expect&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/orbans-latest-dance\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n of Hungary is not to be hectored to.\u00a0 Arching with fury at the EU\u2019s September motion to sanction Hungary for bad behaviour under the Article 7 process, he was resolved to ratchet things up.\u00a0 The motion, while getting 448 votes concerned about judicial independence, corruption, freedom of expression, academic freedom, the rights and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}