Protection of Consumers against Price Increases Violates EU Law A Hungarian legislation that obliges traders to sell certain agricultural products at a fixed price and in predetermined quantities is... 2024.09.13.
First Installment of EUR 200 million Penalty for Blocking Phony Asylum Applications Missed Hungary has missed the first deadline to pay the EUR 200 million fine imposed by the Court of Justice of... 2024.09.03.
Spanish ‘Nyet’ for the Hungarian Takeover of Train Manufacturer Talgo The Spanish government will not approve the sale of the Spanish train manufacturer Talgo to the Hungarian company Ganz-MaVag Europe,... 2024.08.29.
Hungarians Should Be Able to Decide Who They Want to Live with, Urges Viktor Orbán Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was a guest on Kossuth Radio's Good Morning, Hungary! program on Friday morning. The head of... 2024.06.14.
EUR 200 Million Penalty for Protecting Hungarian Citizens and Borders Instead of protecting its borders and their citizens from the endemic crime that illegal mass-migration brings, the European Commission seems... 2024.06.13.
Austria Loses EU Court Case against Hungarian Nuclear Power Plant The second-highest court of the EU has dismissed Austria's appeal against the Paks nuclear expansion. The Hungarian foreign minister said... 2022.12.01.
Croatian Prime Minister: Hungary’s Dual Pricing of Petrol Goes against EU Law Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told a European People's Party congress in Rotterdam that he finds Hungary's dual pricing of... 2022.06.02.
CNN: Erdoğan and Orbán Are Putin’s Allies, They Have to Be Made “Irrelevant” On Tuesday, an opinion piece was published on CNN, stating that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Turkish Prime Minister... 2022.05.18.
Rule of Law Mechanism Against Hungary Starts on Wednesday The European Commission will send a letter to the Hungarian government informing them of the start of the procedure to... 2022.04.26.
EC Activates Rule-of-Law Conditionality Mechanism against Hungary The European Commission has formally notified Hungary that they are activating the mechanism in the European Union budget, which links... 2022.04.06.
EC Commissioner: “We will launch rule of law mechanism against Hungary” Speaking to the Austrian news portal Tiroler Tageszeitung, the Commissioner for Budget and Administration, Johannes Hahn, has announced that he... 2022.04.05.
CJEU Ruling on Rule of Law Fund Cuts: EC Satisfied, EP Impatient, Fidesz Critical "I welcome these judgments, which follow the position that the Commission, the European Parliament, the Council, and ten Member States... 2022.02.17.
Govt Reaction to CJEU Decision: “It’s about the Child Protection Act, not the Rule of Law” After the Court of Justice of the European Union rejected Hungary and Poland’s complaint that the EU may cut funds... 2022.02.16.
CJEU Rejects Actions by Poland and Hungary Against Rule of Law Mechanism The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected Hungary's and Poland's complaint that the EU may cut funds... 2022.02.16.
EU Justice Commissioner: International Observers Needed for Hungarian Elections Didier Reynders, the European Union's Justice Commissioner, is in favor of having observers at the Hungarian parliamentary elections in April.... 2022.02.02.
Viktor Orbán Opposes Federal Europe in “Samizdat 16” Member states of the European Union must not accept a situation in which political decisions are taken by the European... 2022.01.29.
Justice Minister: Advocate General’s Proposal ‘Not the Verdict, Just an Opinion’ The opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union that the court should dismiss... 2021.12.02.
Hungary, Poland Suit Against Rule-of-law Conditionality ‘Should Be Dismissed,’ ECJ Advocate General Says Campos Sánchez-Bordona, the Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice, on Thursday issued an opinion that Hungary and Poland's suit... 2021.12.02.
JM Varga Says European Commission Wants Hungary to Let Migrants In The European Court of Justice and the European Commission's ruling on the "Stop Soros" law package aims to get Hungary... 2021.11.20.
Merkel Calls for EC to Attempt Compromise Before Halting Funds, but Commission Planning to Use Rule-of-Law Tool within Days Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked the European Union to try to find some compromise with Polish and Hungarian... 2021.10.19.
Govt Official: Global Minimum Tax against Hungary’s Interests Hungary refuses to give up its financial sovereignty by introducing a global minimum corporate tax rate, finance ministry state secretary... 2021.08.14.
