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Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights

Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.

Euronews

A new anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary would ban Pride event and allow use of facial recognition software

Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community

The Independent UK

Hungary's PM Orbán slams EU and pledges crackdown on foreign influence

"There is always an empire that is trying to take away the freedom of the Hungarians, and right now it is the one in Brussels," Viktor Orban said in a speech on Saturday.

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Kallas pitches plan to 'potentially' mobilise €40 billion in military aid for Ukraine

The new initiative by Kaja Kallas is facing unresolved questions and political resistance that threaten to slow down its approval and roll-out.

Euronews

Hungary's leader orders price controls on basic foods as inflation spikes

Hungary’s government is limiting the profit margin for grocers on a number of basic food items in response to growing inflation hitting consumers in the Central European country

The Independent UK

Trump considers moving US troops from Germany to Eastern Europe in NATO spending row

Trump is reportedly considering moving the personnel to Hungary

Evening Standard

European leaders agree defence ramp-up to support Ukraine – but Hungary continues to block progress

Leaders of the 27 EU countries have agreed in principle to a massive increase in defence spending at a summit that was hastily organised in the wake of Donald Trump’s withdrawal of support for Ukraine.

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‘Watershed moment’: EU leaders agree plan for huge rise in defence spending

Leaders endorse Ursula von der Leyen proposal as French president calls Vladimir Putin ‘an imperialist who seeks to rewrite history’

The Guardian - UK

Macron warns Russian aggression ‘knows no borders’ in televised address

French president says Europe must prepare for a future without guaranteed US support, warning Russian threat could extend beyond Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Yes, Trump is a hypocrite. But is pointing that out an effective attack?

Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first place

The Guardian - US

France suggests partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine

Such a truce would determine whether Putin is ‘acting in good faith’, French foreign minister says

The Guardian - UK

The AfD are circling like vultures. But in Berlin, I found a new, young left rising against them

On election night, as the far right rose nationwide, Die Linke made crucial gains in the capital. But its supporters see the hard road ahead, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Orbán problem pushes EU towards ‘coalitions of the willing’ on Ukraine

As crisis talks loom, Trump and the bloc’s own populist spoilers have driven it away from its old quest for unanimity

The Guardian - UK

‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row

The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge

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Elon Musk congratulates AfD’s Alice Weidel on far-right gains in German election

Far-right party co-leader says billionaire called her personally after it came second in Sunday’s poll

The Guardian - US

Trump administration eliminating 2,000 USAid positions in US, notice says

All but handful of agency’s personnel around world to be placed on paid leave, according to notice sent to workers

The Guardian - US

Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

The Guardian - UK

LGBTQ+ community in Germany rally against rise of far right ahead of elections

Community grapples with fear over ‘proliferation and normalisation of anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment in politics and the media’

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The Conversation

Trust in politics is in long-term decline around the world – new research

Citizens’ trust in their political institutions has been falling around the world. This may not come as a shock to many.

The Conversation

Europe left scrambling in face of wavering US security guarantees

European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks like the end of reliable US protection of the continent. It is unclear what the “main European countries” (which includes the UK) might be able to agree at a hastily convened meeting in Paris on Monday February 17. But individual countries,…

The Guardian - UK

Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling

Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

The Orbánisation of America: inside the 14 February Guardian Weekly

A Hungarian-inspired revolution. Plus: How it all went wrong for Emilia Pérez

The Independent UK

Hungary's Orbán meets head of far-right German party AfD, calling her 'the future of Germany'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, a rare meeting between a European leader and Germany’s far-right party

The Guardian - US

Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown

Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

The Guardian - US

‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán

Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say

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