The Latest Breaking News from Viktor Orbán

All but handful of agency’s personnel around world to be placed on paid leave, according to notice sent to workers

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

Community grapples with fear over ‘proliferation and normalisation of anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment in politics and the media’

Citizens’ trust in their political institutions has been falling around the world. This may not come as a shock to many.

European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks like the end of reliable US protection of the continent. It is unclear what the “main European countries” (which includes the UK) might be able to agree at a hastily convened meeting in Paris on Monday February 17. But individual countries,…

Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

A Hungarian-inspired revolution. Plus: How it all went wrong for Emilia Pérez

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, a rare meeting between a European leader and Germany’s far-right party

Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say

Comments by Christine Lagarde seen as veiled warning to Donald Trump, who demanded Federal Reserve lower interest rates ‘immediately’