Momentum party

Under the umbrella of the state of emergency, the government has passed a set of decisions and laws, including a ban on energy exports and an increase in production at Hungary's only nuclear power plant.

Massive rallies against an unpopular tax reform have continued in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, where several thousand protesters gathered near the parliament building on Wednesday afternoon, many of them independent entrepreneurs affected by the changes.

His statement, however, as unpicked below, is misleading; the outlets that are financially independent and able to withstand political influence neither operate as a uniform block, nor do they have 'oppositionism' as their primary mission.

Police in Hungary on Wednesday at 6am detained an opposition politician, János Csóka-Szűcs, in Gyula, a small town in Békés County, the media outlet Magyar Narancs reported.

Csóka-Szűcs is the local leader of an opposition movement called the Kossuth Circle and a supporting member of the Momentum party.

Hungarian officials reacted with shock on Thursday after Laszlo Trocsanyi, the Hungarian candidate for the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy post in the European Commission, was deemed unfit to serve as a Commissioner by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, JURI.