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Budapest mayor charged over his calls for people to defy Hungary’s Pride ban

Par :Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

28 janvier 2026 à 14:33

Gergely Karácsony urged people to take to streets in June in pushback against Orbán government’s attack on rights

Prosecutors in Hungary have filed charges against the progressive mayor of Budapest, seeking to fine him months after hundreds of thousands of people heeded his call to take to the streets in defiance of the government’s ban on Pride.

The June march made headlines around the world after the ruling Fidesz party, led by the rightwing populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, backed legislation that created a legal basis for Pride to be banned, citing a widely criticised need to protect children.

Spain approves decree to regularise half a million undocumented migrants

The Guardian

Par :Sam Jones in Madrid and Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

27 janvier 2026 à 14:57

Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe

Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has approved a decree it said would regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, rejecting the anti-migration policies and rhetoric prevalent across much of Europe.

The decree, expected to come into effect in April, will apply to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and people in Spain with irregular status. To qualify for regularisation, applicants will have to prove they do not have a criminal record and had lived in Spain for at least five months – or had sought international protection – before 31 December 2025.