Europe’s top human rights court ruled Hungary’s life sentences without parole lack a real prospect of release, taking aim at a system built around delayed clemency rather than meaningful review. A man ...

An April 9, 2026, photo shows billboards along a road in Szeged, Hungary, with the image of Viktor Orban, the longtime Hungarian prime minister. The billboard reads in Hungarian "Let's unite against ...

Viktor Orbán is the closest thing in Europe to a prime minister for life. He has served four consecutive terms since 2010, perpetuating his power with the ruthlessness of a royal. But ruthlessness may ...

On 13 May, 2025, a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, submitted a new bill entitled the Transparency of Public Life, which would enable the government to target, defund and dissolve any ...