New legislation outlawed LGBTI-related assemblies. A draft bill would allow the government to blacklist and block the funding of civil society and media outlets, based on arbitrary criteria. The European Commission found that Hungary was still failing to address systemic deficiencies in judicial independence, media freedom and the country’s anti-corruption framework. Asylum seekers continued to have their rights violated. Municipalities were allowed to pass discriminatory decrees restricting local housing.
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