Europe Hesitant on Hungary Newspaper Closure

“Hungary’s largest daily newspaper, Nepszabadsag, unexpectedly halted its print and online editions on Saturday,” Eszter Zalan of EU Observer reports. “Its owner, Mediaworks, cited economic losses as reason for the move, but journalists, civil rights groups and opposition parties suspect interference by prime minister Viktor Orban’s government, whose Fidesz party had been the target of Nepszabadsag investigations.”