Anti-asylum Orbán makes exception for a friend in need

Hungary appears to have given special treatment to disgraced former Macedonian PM

Macedonia's former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled the country last week rather than report to jail to serve a two-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption, announced on Tuesday that he had been granted political asylum in Hungary.

He wrote on his Facebook page that he had been the victim of a "political witch-hunt" in Macedonia and that Hungarian authorities had granted his request for asylum. Earlier in the day the Hungarian government-linked Magyar Idik newspaper wrote that Gruevski's application had been approved. Hungarian authorities made no official comment on the matter.