The European Parliament assesses the state of fundamental rights in Hungary after a recent change of law on public gatherings has paved the way to ban the Budapest Pride march. MEPs are set to argue that this limitation of the rights of assembly and expression are a direct violation of the basic human and civil rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the core values of the Union. In 1997, Budapest became the first capital of a former Communist bloc country to host a