BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Over 80 editors from leading European news outlets signed a petition calling for the scrapping of legislation in Hungary that aims to restrict foreign-funded media and rights groups, a step critics say is meant to stifle criticism of the government.
The bill submitted last week by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz party would draft a list of entities that get foreign funding and curb or even shut them down if the government decides they threaten Hungary and its culture.
