Migration v climate: Europe's new political divide

As in Hungary, activists are demanding climate action but politicians say biggest threat comes from migrationThe crowd that gathered outside Hungary's neo-gothic parliament building on Friday was loud, young and passionate. The latest round of global school climate strikes drew several thousand people in Budapest, including the city's newly elected liberal mayor. They sang, chanted and shouted demands to the country's politicians to take the climate emergency seriously.But there was little sign that inside parliament, dominated by the Fidesz party of the far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán, the politicians were listening. Continue reading...