{"id":25454,"date":"2018-12-13T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25454"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:54","slug":"hungarys-slave-law-passes-sparking-protests-in-parliament-and-on-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25454","title":{"rendered":"Hungary&#8217;s &#8216;slave law&#8217; passes, sparking protests in parliament and on the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday showed no signs of heeding US and European Union warnings to rein in his <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/11\/opinions\/orban-hungary-attack-ceu-democracy-eisen-gedmin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;illiberal state,&#8221;<\/a> instead introducing new laws that critics say will tighten his grip on power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hundreds of protesters marched through Budapest and gathered at the parliament building late into Wednesday night, after Orban&#8217;s hardline Fidesz party pushed through legislation allowing employers to ask their workers to take on up to 400 hours&#8217; overtime per year. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Critics have dubbed it the &#8220;slave law.&#8221; The government told CNN that the &#8220;voluntary changes to working hours&#8221; were &#8220;in the interest of the workers&#8221; and would allow people to work and earn more. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday showed no signs of heeding US and European Union warnings to rein in his &#8220;illiberal state,&#8221; instead introducing new laws that critics say will tighten his grip on power.Hundreds of protesters marched through Budapest and gathered at the parliament building late into Wednesday night, after Orban&#8217;s hardline Fidesz&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}