Hungary’s Orban stages assault against democracy

LONDON, UK — Hungarian democracy has seen darker days: Memories of the brutal Soviet repression are still very much present, particularly from 1956, when tanks roared through Budapest’s streets to put down an anti-communist uprising.

Although the country’s latest political upheavals have come about peacefully, however, critics of the right-wing government say it’s staging another assault on democracy with a drive to change the constitution that’s provoking anger in the European Union and riding roughshod over the economy.

You’d be forgiven for failing to know that. With the euro zone in near-constant peril and senior EU partners such as Britain threatening to undermine the union, events in Budapest have been overshadowed.

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