Bloomberg Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pulled his ruling party out of the parliamentary caucus of the European Union’s largest political group as the bloc piles pressure on him over the erosion of democratic norms. Orban triggered the exit of his 12 European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday after a vote by the European People’s Party (EPP) caucus cleared the way to ...

Bloomberg Alternative for Germany (AfD), the biggest opposition group in the country’s parliament, was placed on the domestic intelligence service’s list of organisations suspected of right-wing extremism, Der Spiegel reported. Prompted by a confidential 1,000-page report about alleged violations of constitutional rules protecting human dignity and democracy, the move allows the agency to conduct nationwide surveillance of the AfD, the ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong made its 100th arrest under a national security law imposed on the former British colony by China last year, while a mass bail hearing for dozens of pro-democracy activists was forced into a fourth day. 100 people had been arrested on suspicion of activities harming national security, police said. The accused include 83 male suspects and 17 ...