Rob Schmitz
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183 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Aug
Rob Schmitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We sit down at a park bench in central Budapest and she lays out Prime Minister Petra Majjar's priorities to reconstruct Hungary's democracy.
It begins with money.
The European Union has frozen twenty billion dollars worth of funding to Hungary to punish Viktor Orban's government for violating the EU's democratic principles.
This is equal to more than eight percent of Hungary's GDP.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has vowed nearly all of these funds would be paid back if Maďar's government agreed on more than two dozen reforms by the end of this month.
In his first year as Prime Minister, Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party amended Hungary's constitution several times before overhauling the entire document, calling it the fundamental law.
So does that mean then that they're gonna scrap
The constitution that Orban basically rewrote.
Orban's redrafted constitution tweaked the justice system in the country's electoral process in order to keep Fidesz and Orban in power.
Which made Madjar's victory in April an even bigger surprise.
I ask Apronce the question on many Hungarian minds since the election.
Do you think Orban should go to prison?
One person who suffered real life consequences from Orban's government is Lukashaba, managing director of the newspaper Majar Hang, Hungarian voice.
He gives me a tour of his magazine's newsroom.
I mean, this is more or less an apartment, right?
This is like an apartment.
When I last met Shaba more than a year ago, he was forced to print his weekly conservative news magazine in neighboring Slovakia.
Because printers in Hungary were too scared of being shut down by Orban's government for printing it.
Back then, Shaba told me that being a journalist in Hungary had felt increasingly risky.
Shaba could not get a single company to place advertisements in his paper.
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