Protesters rally against self-employment tax changes in Budapest

BUDAPEST, July 12 (Xinhua) -- About a thousand people blocked traffic on the Hungarian capital's two bridges on Tuesday to protest the implementation of a new law that is likely to result in a tax hike for potentially hundreds of thousands of small firms and private individuals.

The demonstrators' aim was to deter Parliament from passing the bill into law using the fast-track procedure. The draft of the bill was