ALJAZEERA: About 100,000 Hungarians rallied late into the night on Tuesday to protest a planned tax on Internet data traffic and the broader course of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, which they see as undermining democracy and relations with the European Union…
Orban’s government, which was nonetheless re-elected by a landslide this year, has imposed special taxes on the banking, retail, energy and telecommunications sectors to keep the budget deficit in check, jeopardizing profits in some parts of the economy and unnerving international investors…
This week’s protests have been organized largely over Facebook and appeared to draw mostly well-heeled professionals. Tens of thousands have marched through central Budapest for three days now, demanding the repeal of the planned tax and the ouster of Orban… (more)
