Merkel presses Orban's Hungary over NGOs, media German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern Monday at the treatment in Hungary of civil society groups and the media as she paid her first visit to Budapest under Prime Minister Viktor Orban. On this theme of democracy and of how to support its settlement, discussions still have to go deeper. "Personally I believe that the roots of democracy have been, and remain, liberalism" Merkel said. SOUNDBITES (completes IMAGES in VID714968_EN)