Staggering crowds at yesterday's protests in Budapest, as students, teachers & allies rally against the crisis of public education in Orbán’s Hungary
👉 Some background to better understand what brought the situation to a boiling point for teachers & their incredible students 🧵
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RT @kernerzsolt: just a few people (Bálint Szajki/24.hu)
What a sight! #Budapest
📸 Daniel Nemeth @444hu
‼️ Tens of thousands on the streets in Budapest, standing up against the crisis of public education & standing up for our future.
🚨Happening now! 🚨Another week, another student-led mass demonstration in Hungary— for their teachers, against the Orban government defunding public education.
#NoTeacherNoFuture
📸 Daniel Nemeth @444hu
Budapest, Oct 23, 1956
Students, workers, intellectuals rise up against oppression, for self-determination. They plead for Western help, but Russian tanks brutally crush them.
Viktor Orban may change his position like the wind changes. But lessons of our history do not change.
It all started with some lies on a bus.
❌ This is sickening
While real-life Russian shells are killing innocent civilians in #Kyiv & the rest of Ukraine, the Orban-government is mailing anti-EU propaganda to every single household. In their twisted world, the aggressor is… Brussels.
Care to comment, @EU_Commission?
Some background on the ongoing protest movement 👇
RT @katka_cseh: Staggering crowds at yesterday's protests in Budapest, as students, teachers & allies rally against the crisis of public education in Orbán’s Hungary
👉 Some background to better understand what brought the situation to a boiling point for teachers & their incredible students 🧵
Happening now‼️Mass protests in Budapest continue. People have had enough of the Orban government defunding public education & sacking teachers who dare to raise their voice.
📸 Daniel Nemeth @444hu
RT @lccanor: True leadership is to acknowledge the pain in your society and to su out loud “hate has no space in our country.” Bravo @ZuzanaCaputova!
still in shock on how these attacks keep happening. Policies of progress do not make societal hate disappear! It’s our job to fight the hate.
🚨 Bombshell 🚨uncovered by my friend & @momentumhu MP @MartonTompos & colleagues—
China 🇨🇳 runs two police stations in the middle of Budapest, calling them “overseas help centres.”
In an EU & NATO member, it raises security & human rigths concerns & needs scrutiny.
A thread.
RT @RenewEurope: The brave people of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 represented by its president, elected leaders & civil society, our joint candidate for #SakharovPrize, together with @EPPGroup & @TheProgressives, is amongst the three finalists today voted by the @EP_ForeignAff & @EP_Development committees.
Horrific. Our thoughts are with the victims’ loved ones, and the Slovak LGBTI community in this difficult time.
RT @MSimecka: I’m deeply saddened by the tragic event in the 🏳️🌈 bar in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Two men were brutally murdered. Motive unknown, but police not ruling out hate towards the #LGBTI community.
My sincerest condolences go out to their families and friends.
Tell me you haven’t read the Treaties without telling me you haven’t read the Treaties
RT @Tsihanouskaya: In the European Parliament, we discussed how to formalize the relationship between the Parliament & democratic Belarus. History gives us a unique chance to return Belarus to the European family of nations. We should act quickly, so we won’t wake up as a Russian colony one day.
A pleasure to meet @JulieMajerczak from @RSF_inter today with my @RenewEurope colleague @GiorgosKyrtsos. We talked about pressing issues of media freedom— understandably a key focus for two MEPs from Greece & Hungary
It was an honor to have Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, leader of democratic Belarus, at our group meeting yesterday. Her relentless fight for freedom in her country could not be more inspiring— and Europe needs to support them.
RT @GuyVerhofstadt: Europe's ineffectiveness in this crisis keeps blowing my mind 🤯
US gives 2x support to 🇺🇦 than EU + Member States combined
Europe is slow to pledge and even slower to deliver
Compared with what we see coming from Moscow this is political amateurism & geopolitical madness
RT @larrouturou: Un belle table ronde devant une salle comble au Parlement européen pour parler d’EACOP et des activités de Total en Ouganda et Tanzanie.
Avec @CamilleEtienne_, @ThomasBart60, @marietouss1, @MariaArenaEU, @galleerie, @katka_cseh, @PDurandOfficiel 🇪🇺
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