Uproar as Orban defends Hungarian media law

THERE was uproar in the European Parliament as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended his controversial media law while presenting his country’s six-month EU presidency programme.

Some MEPs stood in silence, their mouths taped with sticking plaster, holding papers with the names of media and a red “censored” printed across them.

But Orban was not for turning. He retorted that the MEPs in their addresses had repeated mistaken views of the law, saying that the attacks were a direct attack on Hungary and its people.