Justice Min: EC Rule-of-law Report Should Not Be Used for Ideological Purposes The European Commission's new rule-of-law report to be issued on Tuesday should not be used for ideological purposes and for... 2021.07.20.
Párbeszéd, Three Polish Peers Ask for EC Scrutiny of Hungary, Poland Rule of Law Situation Hungary's opposition Párbeszéd and three peers in Poland have sent a joint letter to Ursula von der Leyen, the president... 2021.07.07.
CoE Calls on Hungary to Reconsider Constitutional Amendments The Venice Commission has called on the government to reconsider recent amendments to Hungary's constitution so as "to avoid possible... 2021.07.06.
Rule of Law Mechanism ‘Not Possible’ Over Child Protection’s Law’s LGBTQ-Restrictive Parts The European Commission cannot apply the rule of law mechanism in connection with the LGBT-restrictive features of the Hungarian government's... 2021.07.01.
Justice Minister: EU Court Rushing Adjudication of Rule of Law Issue The European court, at the behest of the European Parliament, is fastracking a procedure related to the rule of law... 2021.06.12.
European Parliament Pressures Commission to Act Against Hungary MEPs have voted that if the European Commission does not initiate its rule of law procedure against Hungary and Poland,... 2021.06.11.
Justice Min: EU Ministers Have No Problem with Hungary Not Joining Union’s Prosecutor’s Office The debate on the rule of law is "finally where it should be", in front of justice ministers, the Hungarian... 2021.06.08.
Rule of Law Concerns Risk of Hungary’s EU Funds, Gov’t Claims Proceeding Politically Motivated The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed Hungary's legal challenge to overturn a European Parliament resolution that triggered... 2021.06.04.
Press Roundup: Opposition Debate Continues on How to Revoke the Constitution On consecutive days, the left-wing national daily carries two diverging opinions about whether the Left should swiftly abolish the Fundamental... 2021.06.03.
Press Roundup: Gov’t Side Campaign Puts Gyurcsány in Its Centre Pro-government commentators claim in unison that the opposition is the ideological heir of the 2006 ‘Őszöd speech’ and ensuing police... 2021.05.31.
Orbán-Johnson Meeting: Hungary Aims to Map Out post-Brexit Cooperation with UK Hungary's task in its relationship with the United Kingdom is to establish new forms of cooperation with the country following... 2021.05.28.
CoE Presidency ‘Special Opportunity’ for Hungary, Justice Minister Says The Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which Hungary officially took over for six months... 2021.05.22.
Press Roundup: High Stakes in Next Year’s Election A liberal columnist suggests that if they win in 2022, the opposition parties should not bother too much about rule... 2021.05.17.
Justice Minister: Govt Rejects ‘Political Attacks on Safe Vaccines’ Vaccination against Covid-19 is not a political issue, therefore the Hungarian government has "rejected all politically motivated attacks on effective... 2021.05.11.
Fidesz MEP: EC Appoints ‘Left-wing Political Activist’ as Liaison of Rule-of-law Report Ruling Fidesz MEPs have sent a letter of protest to the European Commission arguing that Gábor Magyar, appointed as liaison... 2021.05.05.
FM Szijjártó to Blinken: US Should Not Worry about Democracy and Freedom in Hungary Hungary lacks a democratic level of media freedom and is at risk of being heavily influenced by Moscow and Beijing,... 2021.04.30.
Justice Minister: EC Set to Renew Rule-Of-Law Debate Justice Minister Judit Varga on Monday slammed the European Commission for what she called a second attempt this year to... 2021.04.27.
Justice Minister: Rule of Law Debate Should Not Create Division Between EU Members The "hypocritical" debate about the rule of law should not serve to create divisions between European Union member states at... 2021.04.21.
Press Roundup: European Parliament Threatens to Sue Commission Last week, the European Parliament voted to sue the European Commission if it fails to apply the rule of law... 2021.04.01.
Justice Minister Presents Hungary Upcoming Presidency Priorities, Programmes to CoE SecGen Judit Varga, the justice minister, gave an outline of priorities for Hungary's upcoming Council of Europe (CoE) presidency starting in... 2021.03.31.
CoE Commissioner Calls on Hungary to ‘Restore’ Press Freedom Dunja Mijatovic, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, said in a memorandum on Tuesday that it was "high... 2021.03.30.
