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Lili Bayer in Brussels

Crackdown on ‘foreign interventions’ decried by Hungarian media

Viktor Orbán speaking in Hungarian parliament.
The prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has claimed that the west is funding and directing his opponents. Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/Reuters

Ten independent Hungarian media outlets have issued a joint warning that a new law is “capable of severely restricting the freedom of the press”.

The media organisations, which range from small investigative outlets to popular online news portals, said that a law approved by the Hungarian parliament on Tuesday could make it “difficult or even impossible for independent newsrooms, journalists and media companies to operate”.

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