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WORLD NEWS Monday 29 July 2019

Hungary's Orban critical of EU leaders on migration, economy

By PABLO GORONDI program and it should not
Associated Press carry out political attacks
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) on members states."
— Hungary's prime minis- Orban is scheduled to meet
ter said Saturday that the the European Commission
European Union has made President-elect Ursula von
"grave mistakes" in the past der Leyen on Thursday in
five years regarding immi- Brussels. Orban supported
gration and the economy. her candidacy and has in-
The European Commission dicated that he expects
needs to allow a council her to have a more concil-
of EU interior ministers to iatory position toward Hun-
decide migration issues, gary and other countries
comparing their role to in the region often at odds
the so-called Eurogroup, with the majority EU stance
the finance ministers of the on issues like migration and
countries using the euro environmental standards.
currency, Prime Minister Hungary is also facing a so-
Viktor Orban said at a Hun- called Article 7 procedure
garian cultural festival in initiated by the European
the Romanian town of Baile Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives on the stage to speak at the 30th Balvanyos Summer Parliament because of
Tusnad. University and Students' Camp in Baile Tusnad, Transylvania, Romania, Saturday, July 27, 2019. concerns about the rule of
Orban also took exception Associated Press law, which the Hungarian
to what he described as government claims is mo-
the "political activism" of ered to be in contraven- groups that help them, or "The commission ... needs to tivated, as with practically
the European Commission, tion of EU rules. Over the special taxes targeting, for behave as the guard of the any criticism it has received
which has launched nu- years these, have included example, media compa- EU agreements and aban- in the past four years, by
merous procedures against objections to laws seen as nies independent of the don political activism," Or- its "zero tolerance" of mi-
the Hungarian government limiting the rights of asylum- government, banks and ban said. "It is not a political gration, especially by
on issues where it is consid- seekers or intimidating civic foreign companies. body, it should not have a Muslims.q

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA tody, OVD-Info and a law- who did not have any aller-
MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly yers' legal aid group said gies beforehand, was tak-
1,400 people were de- Sunday. en from the Moscow jail to
tained in a violent police Crackdowns on the anti- a hospital in the morning,
crackdown on an opposi- government protesters be- arriving with severe facial
tion protest in Moscow, a gan days before the rally. swelling and red rashes.
Russian monitoring group Opposition leader Alexei Hours later, she said Na-
said Sunday, adding that Navalny was arrested and valny was in a "satisfactory
was the largest number sentenced Wednesday to condition."
of detentions at a rally in 30 days in jail for calling for Russian police violently
the Russian capital this de- Saturday's protest against dispersed thousands of
cade. election authorities who people who thronged the
OVD-Info, which has moni- barred some opposition streets of Moscow on Sat-
tored police arrests since candidates from running urday to protest the move
2011, said the number of in the Sept. 8 vote for Mos- by election authorities.
the detentions from Sat- cow city council. Several protesters reported
urday's protest reached Navalny was unexpectedly broken limbs and head in- Russian President Vladimir Putin, gestures while speaking to De-
fence Minister Sergei Shoigu as Commander-in-Chief of the Rus-
1,373 by early Sunday. The hospitalized Sunday with a juries. Police justified their sian Navy listens to him during the military parade during the
overwhelming majority of severe allergy attack, his response by saying that the Navy Day celebration in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, July 28,
people were soon released spokeswoman said. rally was not sanctioned by 2019.
but 150 remained in cus- Kira Yarmysh said Navalny, authorities.q Associated Press