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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11245
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INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) hungary

Merkel's lesson in democracy to Orban

Brussels, 03/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - During her visit to Budapest on Monday 2 February, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the view of democracy being peddled by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and said that it was of the greatest importance “in a democracy, even when one holds a strong majority, to respect the role of the opposition, of civil society and of the media”.

With Orban regularly accused of seeking to suppress NGOs or the media. Merkel also said she could not...

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