meanwhile, who was arrested and sentenced to 30 days in jail last week for calling for the protest, was transferred from detention to hospital on Sunday following a “severe allergy reaction,” according to his spokeswoman. Kira Yarmysh said that “throughout his life, Alexei had never experienced an allergic reaction.” Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova called the situation “strange” in a Facebook post, noting that she had not been allowed to visit her client in hospital until she kicked up a stink, and that the chief doctor at the hospital is a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.
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ORBÁN’S PRAISE: Ursula von der Leyen’s meetings this week include one with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and another with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán. The latter must especially be special lead looking forward to his appointment with the Commission president-elect on Thursday, judging from a speech he gave this weekend — Orbán claimed he played a key role in stopping “ideological guerrillas” from getting top jobs in the EU and instead had “a mother of seven children” named head of the European Commission.
‘More children’: Orbán’s comments came during a lengthy speech in the Romanian town of Băile Tușnad, which has a large Hungarian minority. (Orbán gives a big speech in Romania every summer). He said Hungary is on a “reassuring path,” both financially and socially, but its success is under threat from “external dangers,” according to Zoltán Kovács, Orbán’s spokesman, who live-tweeted the speech. He also returned to a familiar theme: migration. “In place of migration, we should be giving financial assistance to European families so that they will have more children,” he said.
